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  • 1-2 April: This Weekend in the History of Motor Sports

    ~1~ April 1903: The Polish Count Eliot Zborowski, father of the creator of the ‘Chiity-Chitty-Bang-Bang cars, became the first competitor to be killed during a hillclimb, when he crashed his Mercedes at Le Turbie., near Nice, France. The event was abandoned and the course subsequently shortened to less that half its former length. 1967: Mario…

  • 18-19 March: This Weekend in Motor Sport History

    ~18~ 1927: Wade Morton set a US stock car record, driving an Auburn 8-88 1,000 miles at an average speed of 68.37 mph at the Atlantic City Speedway, New Jersey, US. 1929: Bill Lowe drove a Lombard to victory in the 1100cc class of the Australian Grand Prix, held at Phillip Island. 1972: Bobby Unser…

  • 11-12 March: This Weekend in the History of Motor Sports

    ~11 March ~ 1928: Tazio Nuvolari driving a Bugatti T35C won the Tripoli Grand Prix. 1928: Louis Chiron in a Bugatti T35C won the Saint Raphael Grand Prix at L’Estérel Plage, in France. 1929: Sir Henry Segrave, driving the 925 hp Napier “Golden Arrow”, designed by Capt. J S Irving, raised the and speed record…

  • 4 – 5 March: This Weekend in Motor Sport History

    ~4 March ~ 1899: Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat with a Jeantaud electric car weighting 1.5 tons won the third of a series of challenges with Camille Jenatzy in the famous Jamais Contente. Sponsored by the French newspaper La France Automobile (with the aim of breaking the 66 second per kilometre record set by Albert Champion)…

  • 25-26 February: This Weekend in Motor Sport History

    ~25 February~ 1934: The Norwegian Grand Pix at Mjosa was won by Per-Viktor Widengren driving a Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Monza. 1968: Racer Jim Clark won his final motor race, the seventh leg of the Tasman Series at Melbourne Australia’s Sandown Park. The heat on race day was intense with the temperature over the 100 degree…

  • 18-19 February: This Weekend in Motor Sport History

    ~18~ 1900: The first circuit race, the Course du Catalogue, run over two laps of a 45 mile triangular course at Melun in France, was won by Léonce Girardot in a Panhard.~ 1919: Ralph DePalma, driving Packard ‘905’, powered by a 12 cylinder 905 cubic inch aero-engine, at Daytona Beach, recorded a one-way flying mile…

  • 10-11 February: This Weekend in Motor Sport History

    ~10 February~ 1952: Daytona native Marshall Teague won the NASCAR Grand National race on the 4.1 mile beach and road course for the 2nd straight year. The scheduled 160 mile race ended 2 laps early due to an incoming tide. Teague led from lap 2, crossing the line 1 minute, 21 seconds ahead of Herb…

  • 21-22 January: This weekend in Motor Sport History

    ~21 January~ 1911: Twenty-three cars from 11 different locations around Euroep converged on the tiny Principality of Monaco to compete in the first Monte Carlo car rally. Organised by the Automobile Club de Monaco, the challenging race took place along the French Riviera. Results depended not on driving time alone, but on judges’ assessments of…

  • 5-6 November: This Weekend in Motorsport History

    5th November 1950: The first Pebble Beach Road Races (California) were staged, with the main event won by Phil Hill in a Jaguar XK120. The races were  managed under the auspices of the SCCA (Sports Car Club of  America), as were most races from that day to this. The route was originally 1.8 miles (2.9…

  • 13-19 June: Motoring Milestones

    13-19 JUNE  Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: Canadian Grand Prix, Richard Petty, Fiat Topolino, and the first mobile telephone call 80 years ago this week, 300,000 people gathered on a rainy and fog swept Nürburgring to see the Adac Eifelrennen, the first major race of the year on German soil, the…