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Automobile Racing


International competitiveness, testing the capabilities of specially designed
automobiles and the skill of their drivers, over tracks and courses of differing
lengths and construction, this is automobile racing. The first car race
considered is the one held in France in July 1894, in which the winner averaged
24 kilometers per hour, when 100 automobiles set out from Paris to Rouen. The
first race in North America was held in Chicago, Illinois, in the year 1895.
The excitement generated by the possibility of driving at higher and higher
speeds has made automobile racing one of the world's major spectator and
participant sports. Early races were held in two forms; pure speed races and the
others tested engine reliability, which later became known as rallies. In
rallies, cars attempt to achieve and maintain a set speed between points. The
first races were held on public roads, but with increasing concern for spectator
safety, special closed-circuit tracks were built......

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