History Of Early Race Cars

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Soon after the invention of the automobile, in the 1880’s people in Europe would hold races or what they called back then an endurance test. From Paris, to Bordeaux in France back and for averaging a speed of about 10.2 mph. Back in the United States early organized racing events began with a race from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois the day of Thanksgiving back in 1895. By the 1900’s many races were conducted from town to town. Some of which had to be stopped because of the number of rising accidents on public roads. One of the most amazing things about early racing that is still common today is most of the time manufactures were racing prototype models Europe and the United States of production models coming later that year. Another cool thing they would do is take already existing cars and strip then down for weight reduction, upgrade fuel tanks and add on race tires for extra grip. Racing automobiles has been around since its early inventions and without it we would not have some of the inventions we have in our cars now. Racing is something commonly shared around the world and it brings many different types of people together for generations, bringing new ideas and new inventions without early race cars I don’t know where cars would be today.

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