During the interwar period Škoda did not compete in speed races, but it was a regular partecipants in what we call today the rally-raid. Especially in the secon half of the 30's the Mladá Boleslav factory saw that kind of competition as a way to promote its products.

Perhaps the most important national of such car competition of the 1930s took place in September 1937 and it was in fact rather international. While it led through the whole of Czechoslovakia, from Prague to Brno, Bratislava, Košice, and Užhorod and all the way to the border with Romania, from there it continued to Bucharest and ended in Yugoslavian Beograd. This competition, open to both cars and motorcycles, was called "Through the Little Entente" - a hint to the political and military alliance of Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia. In the worsening political atmosphere of the second half of the 1930s, it was supposed to demonstrate this alliance, as attested by the fact that armies of all three states sent their teams and their crews competed in uniforms.

The Popular MD (MD stands for "Malou Dohodou", i.e. "Little Entente") here shown was raced by Jarolav Horák. It was competing in the "up to 1000 cc" class. The car was classified at the 7^th place overall and 2^nd of its class.

The Škoda Popular team of 4 drivers (Holoubek, Horák, Wolf) was 2^nd, only beaten by the Aero Car Club squad.

The first 8 drivers were all from Czechoslovakia.