Category: This Weekend in Motor Sport History

Discover the most momentous motorsports events that took place this weekend in history ……. ~25 December~ 1931: Timekeeper Ernst Christ had his plans to build a racetrack in his home town of Hockenheim, Germany unanimously approved by the municipal council. Building work began in March 1932, and only two months later, on May 25 1932,…

Discover the most momentous motorsports events that took place this weekend in history ….. ~18 December~ 1898: The first sprint meeting in the world, sponsored by La France Automobile, was held in Arches Park, near Paris. The course `was flat but very wet, and competitors were timed over 2 km from a standing start, thus…

Discover the most momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history ……..   ~4 December~ 1926: The Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper announced the first Mille Miglia road race in Italy. It was established by the young count Aymo Maggi and Franco Mazzotti, apparently in response to the Italian Grand Prix being moved…

Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this week in history ……  ~27 November~ 1911: Ralph Mulford in a Lozier won the seventh Vanderbilt Cup, in the only year it was staged at Savannah, Georgia in a double-header along with the American Grand Prize three days later. An American winner driving an American…

Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this week in history ……  ~20 November~ 1955: Pole-starter Fonty Flock held off his brother Tim by half a car-length at Charlotte Speedway’s .75-mile dirt track to score the last of his 19 wins in NASCAR’s premier series. Flock led all 134 laps and paced a…

Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this week in history …… ~13 November~ 1955 Pole-starter Tim Flock fended off hard-charging Curtis Turner to win at Hickory (North Carolina, US) Speedway’s 0.4-mile dirt track, marking his 36th victory in NASCAR’s top division. Flock, who won 18 times in the 39 races he entered…

Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this week in history …… ~6 November~ 1907: The first track records were set at Brooklands Frank Newton in a 25.6 hp Napier covered the flying 1/2 mile at 77.92 mph and H C Tyron in a 38.4 hp Napier raised this record to 86.75 mph…

Discover the most momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history …… ~30 October~ 1909: The fifth Vanderbilt Cup Race is held on Long Island, New York. The fanatic drive of Billy Knipper’s Chalmers had seemingly clinched the Cup at 225 miles, but it was the unswerving Grant who subsequently thundered home…

Discover the most momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history …… ~23 October~ 1949: Promoter Sam Nunis scheduled a 150-mile Strictly Stock race at Atlanta’s Lakewood Speedway with the National Stock Car Racing Association (NSCRA) as the sanctioning body. NASCAR’s Bill France co-promoted the event, which attracted a crowd of 33,452.…