11-12 November: This weekend in Motor Sport History
Momentous motor sports events that took place during this weekend in history ……. ~11 November~ 1906: Peugeot made its official racing debut finishing 3rd, 4th and 8th in a 126.1-mile race in Rambouillet, France. 1934: The Briarcliff Trophy Race in Briarcliff, New York was staged for the first time since 1908 with a 99-mile race being…
30 October – 5 November: Motoring Milestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ……. 120 years ago this week, Ransom E. Olds received his first patent for a “Motor Carriage” (“in which the motive power is produced by a gasolene-motor to produce a road vehicle which will meet most of the requirements for the ordinary uses on the…
14-15 October: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Momentous motor sports events that took place during this weekend in history ……. ~14 October~ 1905: Following the success of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the second race was held. Competing against the five American cars, France, Germany, and Italy started 14 of their greatest cars and drivers including; Vincenzo Lancia, Louis Chevrolet and George…
7-8 October: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Momentous motor sports events that took place during this weekend in history ……. ~7 October~ 1906: Birmingham International Raceway, a 5/8-mile oval paved racetrack located at the Alabama State Fairgrounds in the Five Points West neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama (US), hosted its first motorcycle race, followed by an automobile race three days later. 1907: A…
30 September – 1 October: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Momentous motor sports events that took place during this weekend in history ….. ~30 September~ 1950: NASCAR promoted a 25-mile, nonpoints race for NASCAR Grand National cars at the 1/4-mile Civic Stadium in Buffalo, New York, US. Won by Bobby Courtwright, the race was the “pilot” event for the upcoming NASCAR Short Track Grand National…
2-8 October: Motoring Milestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 100 years ago this week, Georg W Houk (51), an automobile wheel manufacturer who introduced Rudge-Whitworth detachable wire wheels in the US, died in Hollywood, California [6 October 1917]……… The first Fordson tractor went in sale in the US [8 October 1917]. It…
9-10 September: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
~9 September~ 1901: The first long-distance motor race in the United States began in New York City, ending 5 days and 464 miles later in Buffalo, New York. In these early days of motor racing, the determining factor was not speed or endurance, but reliability. David Bishop’s winning Panhard et Levassor only averaged a speed…
16-17 September: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Momentous motor sports events that took place during this weekend in history ….. ~16 September~ 1945: Hershel McGriff passed George Amick on the last lap to win the first race, a 100-lap event, on the newly paved Portland Speedway in Portland, Oregon, US. 1951: Alberto Ascari in a Ferrari 375 won the Italian Grand Prix…
11-17 September: Motoring MIlestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, the Arona-Stresa-Arona race was staged, the second ever held in Italy [12 September 1897]…….. 90 years ago this week, Isadora Duncan, the controversial American dancer, was instantly strangled to death while travelling as a passenger in an Amilcar…
21-27 August: Motoring Milestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 400 years ago this week, the first one-way streets were established in London [23 August 1617] . An Act of Common Council was passed to regulate the “disorder and rude behaviour of Carmen, Draymen and others using Cartes.” Seventeen narrow and congested lanes…
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