10-11 March: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history….. ~10 March~ 1928: Gustave Adolphe Clément-Bayard (72), French entrepreneur who raced motor cars and manufactured bicycles, pneumatic tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships, died. In 1894 he was a passenger in the winning vehicle in the world’s first competitive motor event. As…
3-4 March: This Weekend in Motor Sports
Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history….. ~3 March~ 1927: World Land Speed Record holder Parry Thomas (42), was killed at Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales when the chain of his car, the High Special Babs, snapped severing his head. He was the first driver to die during a world…
19 – 25 February: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that have taken place this week in history ……. 90 years ago this week, driving the British built and designed 12 cylinder, 22.3 litre, 450 hp Bluebird at Daytona Beach, USA, Malcolm Campbell established a new World Land Speed Record of 206.96 mph [19 February 1928] ……. On the same…
17-18 February: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history….. ~17 February ~ 1901: The first car named Mercedes, made by Daimler, debuted at the Circuit du Sud-OuestFrance. Maurice Farman recorded his first racing victory, winning in a 24-hp Panhard – his brother, Henri Farman, finished second in a 12-hp Darracq. It…
10-11 February: This weekend in Motor Sport History
Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history…… ~10 February ~ 1901: Henri Farman recorded his first racing victory, winning the Pau-Peyrehorade-Pau road race for touring cars in an 8 hp Darracq. 1952: Daytona native Marshall Teague won the NASCAR Grand National race on the 4.1 mile beach and road…
3-4 February: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Discover the momentous events that took place this weekend in the history of motor sport ……. ~3 February~ 1953: Art Chrisman made the first sub-10 second (9.40) run from a rolling start, and the sport’s first 140-mph run, a 140.08 on a ¼ -mile dragstrip at Santa Ana. 1956: Johnny Claes, an English-born racing driver…
5- 11 February: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in motoring history ……. 100 years ago this week, Thomas A. Edison, perhaps the America’s greatest ever inventor was issued a US patent for a “Starting and Current-Supplying System for Automobiles” (No. 1,255,517) [5 February 1918].……80 years ago this week, Harvey S. Firestone (89), founder…
27-28 January: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Discover the momentous events that took place this weekend in the history of motor sport ……. ~27 January~ 1904: William K Vanderbilt Jr. reached 92.3 mph in his new 90 HP Mercedes at the Daytona Beach Road Course at Ormond Beach, Florida, surpassing the land speed record established earlier in the month by Henry Ford.…
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