With auto construction and racing dominated by France, the French automobile club ACF staged a number of major international races, usually from or to Paris, connecting with another major city, in France or elsewhere in Europe.Īspendale Racecourse, in Australia, was the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit, opening in January 1906. Founded in 1906, it was the oldest sports car racing event, part of the World Sportscar Championship between 19. The Targa Florio was an open road endurance automobile race held in the mountains of Sicily, Italy near the island's capital of Palermo. Press coverage of the event first aroused significant American interest in the automobile. The first American automobile race is generally held to be the Thanksgiving Day Chicago Times-Herald race of November 28, 1895. One hundred and two competitors paid a 10- franc entrance fee. On July 22, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal code: fra promoted to code: fr organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition, from Paris to Rouen. It ran 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Neuilly Bridge to the Bois de Boulogne. The first organized contest was on April 28, 1887, by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède code: fra promoted to code: fr, Monsieur Fossier. Internal combustion auto racing events began soon after the construction of the first successful gasoline-fueled automobiles. It was won by the carriage of Isaac Watt Boulton. on August 30, 1867, between Ashton-under-Lyne and Old Trafford, England, a distance of 8 mi (13 km). The first prearranged match race of two self-powered road vehicles over a prescribed route occurred at 4:30 A.M. A remaining section of the Brooklands track in 2007
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