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Cars as Entertainment: A Brief History of Racing
Automobiles have been around since 1886, and people have been racing them since 1887. As Speedhunters note in one of their blog posts, transportation has never only been about getting us from point A to point B.
Dating back to when we used horses and buggies for transportation, we found ways to use modes of transportation for more than just arriving at a destination. Horse and buggies led the way for horse racing, just as automobiles led the way for street racing. For nearly as long as transportation has existed, humans have found ways to make it entertaining.
Automobile racing began in the early 18th century, just one year after the construction of the first successful gasoline-fueled automobiles—though the first “races” were solo events.
The first organized competition occurred in 1894, though it wasn’t a race as we know them today. This race from Paris to Rouen, France, was a reliability test meant to check the reliability of the cars hitting the track.
The first true race was held one year later in 1895. This 1,178-km race
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Auto racing
Motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition
This article is about the motorsport. For the video game, see Auto Racing (video game).
"Auto race", "Racing cars", and "Race driver" redirect here. For other uses, see Auto race (disambiguation). For the Welsh pop band, see Racing Cars. For the racing simulation video game series, see TOCA Race Driver.
Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing,[1] or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North America, the term is commonly used to describe all forms of automobile sport including non-racing disciplines.
Auto racing has existed since the invention of the automobile. Races of various types were organized, with the first recorded as early as 1867. Many of the earliest events were effectively reliability trials, aimed at proving these new machines were a practical mode of transport, but soon became an important way for automobile makers to demonstrate their machines. By the 1930s, specialist racing cars had developed.
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Lola T760 (1979 Formula Atlantic)
The Formula Atlantic Lola T760, like its Formula 3 sister design, the T770, was a completely new design following new ground-effect principles. Only one was built, and it was hampered by serious handling problems.
Ralt RT1/75 (1975 Formula 2)
After the success of the Ralt RT1 in Formula 3 in 1975, three more RT1s were built near the end of the season in Formula 2 specification. All three were race winners, one in British libre, one in Formula 2 and then in French hillclimbs, and one at the Macau Grand Prix.
Merlyn Mk 21 (1971-73 Formula 3/Formula B)
Jody Scheckter, Gordon Smiley and Håkan Dahlqvist were all successful in their Mk 21s, but there were few other sales. Only seven were built in total. They continued in use for a long time, including in FF2000 and Formula Atlantic.
Formula South Africa 1986
With many of the modern F2 cars having left the country, Bernard Tilanus, Keith Horwood and oth
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