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 December: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
10-11 December: This Weekend in Motor Sport History ~10th~ 1934: A new speed record of 311.98 km/h (193.86 mph) was set over five kilometres with a flying start on the Avus racetrack in Berlin by Rudolf Caracciola driving the record-breaking Mercedes-Benz W25. 1992: The French Grand Prix was axed following the introduction of tough anti-tobacco…
28 November – 4 December: Motoring Milestones
Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: Lancia, Schumacher, BMW, Uniontown Board Speedway and VW Passat R36. 130 years ago this week, work on the first underwater highway tunnel in the United States began in Chicago, Illinois [30 November 1886]. Over a three-year period, workers and engineers tunnelled underneath the Chicago River,…
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