What is the origin of all auto racing?

Answer 1

Auto racing first started in the late 1800s, with the first organized race taking place on April 28, 1887 in France (though, the "winner" was the only entrant). The first true competitive race was on July 23, 1894 also in France. The first race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a 100 lap race (250 miles) in 1909.

Answer 2

In the southern united states where men during the depression ran moonshine to make money, they made their cars faster than the police cars so they could get away. Then every Sunday they'd race each other to see who'd have the fastest boot leg car.

Answer 3

NHRA history: Drag racing's fast start

Born on the backroads of America in the post World War II years, drag racing's roots were planted on dry lake beds like Muroc in California's Mojave Desert, where hot rodders had congregated since the early 1930s and speeds first topped 100 mph.

Wally Parks

One could even argue that drag racing was born in Goltry, Okla., in 1913, with the birth of Wally Parks, who nearly four decades later would found drag racing's most successful and influential sanctioning body.

Parks' family moved to California in the early 1920s, and Parks had an early interest in cars. He attended his first dry lake speed trials event in the 1930s, which whetted his fascination for performance. In 1937, Parks was one of the founders of the Road Runners Club.

Organized drag racing

In 1947, Parks, a military tank test-driver for General Motors who served in the army in the South Pacific in World War II, helped organize the Southern California Timing Association and later became its general manager.

The first SCTA "Speed Week," held at the famed Bonneville Salt Flats in 1949, was the result of a diligent effort of Parks, then its executive secretary. It was here that racers first began running "against the clock" - actually, a stopwatch - coaxing their vehicles to accelerate quicker rather than simply to attain high top speeds.

The first dragstrip, the Santa Ana Drags, began running on an airfield in Southern California in 1950 and quickly gained popularity among the Muroc crowd because of its revolutionary computerized speed clocks.

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The Bonneville speedway in Nevada?

Answer 4

george dufendouf in 1498 invented car racing that was not a car ot was a lawn mower it was big in Scotland and the world

Answer 5

boot leggers needed fast cars to get away from cops and eventually they raced them eo see who had the fastest car

Answer 6

The competitive nature of man. They raced horses, chariots, on foot, etc. Once cars were invented, it was just a matter of time before they wanted to see which car/driver was faster.

Answer 7

Back in 1901 America had many auto makers, and having the fastest car meant sales to them, The place I believe was Ormand Beach, a flat smooth strip to go fast.

Answer 8

Second car assembled raced the first one