[1] It was the fifth and final race of the 1927 AIACR World Manufacturers' Championship season.

The race was won by French driver Robert Benoist.

It was his fourth victory from the season's five races,[2] a performance that put the seal on his Delage team's already-unassailable lead in the Championship.

A similar circuit was used as in the race the previous year, that is using the Finishing Straight, on which two sandbank chicanes were constructed.

The race itself also started half-way around the circuit, on the Railway Straight, rather than from the 1926 start at the junction of the Finishing Straight and the Members' Banking, meaning that the race distance was actually 124 and a half laps.