Category: This Weekend in Motor Sport History

Discover the most momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history ……. ~15 May~ 1902: The first race arranged for promotional purposes began in Paris. The 537-mile Circuit du Nord (Paris-Arras-Paris) ‘alcohol race’, sponsored by the French Ministry of Agriculture to promote the use of alcohol as a fuel, was won by […]

Disvover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history ……. -8 May – 1899: Ettore Bugatti, driving a Prinetti & Stucchi, won the Reggio-Brescello-Parma-Reggio road race in Italy. 1932: Louis Chiron was the only foreigner in the 23rd Targa Florio where just 16 cars arrived for the race, two from the […]

Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history ……. ~1 May~ 1898: The first recorded fatality in a motor race occurred. The Marquis de Montignac and two riding mechanics were killed at a race in Périgueux, France. 1911: The gates at Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened for practice for the first […]

Discover the most momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history …… ~17 April~ 1932: Tazio Nuvolari in an Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 won the Monaco Grand Prix at Monzae by just 2.8 seconds from the privateer Alfa of Rudolf Caracciola, who, despite having a contract for 1932, was not yet part of the […]

Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history ……. ~10 April~ 1908: Vincenzo Trucco in a Isotta-Fraschini (4 min 53 sec) won the final Padova – Bovolenta 10km race in Italy, followed by Nando Minoia in an Isotta-Fraschini and Domenico Piccoli in a SPA. 1909: The Rolls Royce Silver Rogue, […]

Discover the momentous motor sorts events tat took place this weekend in history……….  ~27 March~ 1927: Fernando Minoia and Giuseppi Morandi won the first Mille Miglia in an O.M. The Mille Miglia (Thousand miles) was an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times until to 1957. 1949: Fonty Flock won his fourth […]

Discover the most momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history ……. ~20 March~ 1920: Tazio Nuvolari claimed his first auto racing victory in the 170 mile Verona Cup regularity race driving an Ansaldo Tipo 4. 1955: American race driver Larry Crockett died, at the age of 28, in a crash at […]

Discover the most momentous motor sports events that took place in history  ………. ~13 march~ 1920: Marmon successfully met a challenge to lap the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a stock, fully equipped sedan at a mile a minute, as the Model 34 sedan recorded a lap at 63.2 mph. 1927: Robert Benoist driving a Delage […]

Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history ……… ~6 March~ 1898: The two-day race over a distance of 140 mile (236 km) began. It was won the following day by Fernand Charron driving a 8 hp Panhard et Levassor through a rain soaked, rut filled course. Gilles Hourgières, René De Knyff […]

Discover the motor sports events that took place this weekend in history …….. ~27 February~ 1914: Ralph DePalma beat his arch-rival Barney Oldfield to win the 9th Vanderbilt Cup in Santa Monica, California. Equipped with enormous engines and almost no suspension or steering technology, the pre-World War I US race car was a hunk of […]