The Sport of Auto Racing
Frank Duryea drove in the first American automobile race on Thanksgiving Day, 1895. The race covered 54 miles and Frank’s winning average speed was 7.five miles per hour. At the 2007 Indianapolis 500 the winning average speed was 151.774 miles per hour and also the car was driven by H?lio Castroneves. The events that occurred within the years between 1895 and 2007 that have brought auto racing to the sport that it really is these days are occasionally just remarkable.
Truly, France dominated car racing within the early years. The French Automobile Club staged a number of races. There was no enclosed race course as we know these days. The races usually began in Paris and ended in an additional European city. The event that brought these city-to-city auto races to a close was when Marcel Renault was fatally injured in a car race from Paris to Madrid on May 24, 1903. The death of Marcel Renault as well as eight other race drivers caused the government of France to quit the car races and ban open-road racing altogether.
During the 40 years between 1910 and 1950, the automobile business underwent some drastic changes. High-dollar automobiles like the Delage and Mercedes-Benz were transformed into pure racing vehicles.
These days, you’ll find all kinds of auto racing venues. Racing cars that are built particularly for racing is one, but there’s also stock car racing too as off-road racing, amongst others. You will find even legal drag races as opposed to the drag races that occur illegally on the streets.
Car racing in no way has been and in no way will be a “safe” sport, but it is now and has been from its inception a common sport. And as equipment gets better, you’ll find fewer injuries being suffered within the sport these days than there had been in the past.
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