Frank Duryea drove inside the very first American automobile race on Thanksgiving Day, 1895. The race covered 54 miles and Frank's winning average speed was 7.5 miles per hour. At the 2007 Indianapolis 500 the winning average speed was 151.774 miles per hour as well as 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's nowadays are occasionally just remarkable.
Really, France dominated car racing inside the early years. The French Automobile Club staged several races. There was no enclosed race course as we know nowadays. The races typically began in Paris and ended in yet another 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.
In the course of the 40 years between 1910 and 1950, the automobile industry underwent some drastic changes. High-dollar automobiles like the Delage and Mercedes-Benz had been transformed into pure racing vehicles.
These days, you'll find all kinds of auto racing venues. Racing cars which are built specifically for racing is one, but there's also stock car racing also as off-road racing, amongst other people. You'll find even legal drag races as opposed to the drag races that occur illegally on the streets.
Car racing by no means has been and never will probably be a "safe" sport, however it is now and has been from its inception a well-liked sport. And as equipment gets much better, there are fewer injuries being suffered in the sport today than there were in the past.
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