Essay Archive - Automobile Racing
Automobile Racing
International competitiveness, testing the capabilities of specially designed
automobiles and the skill of their drivers, over tracks and courses of differing
lengths and construction, this is automobile racing. The first car race
considered is the one held in France in July 1894, in which the winner averaged
24 kilometers per hour, when 100 automobiles set out from Paris to Rouen. The
first race in North America was held in Chicago, Illinois, in the year 1895.
The excitement generated by the possibility of driving at higher and higher
speeds has made automobile racing one of the world's major spectator an....
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