1903 The Race Car that Revolutionized Motorsports

It is June 20, 1903. Barney Oldfield, billed as "America's Premier Driver," has just become the first man in America to drive a gas-powered automobile around a ... The Olds Pirate was the first car to make a timed run during Florida's first unofficial speed trials, held in April 1902, on the hard-packed sand of Ormond ... In 1895 the first true race was held, from Paris to Bordeaux, Fr., and back, a distance of 1,178 km. The winner made an average speed of 24.15 ... 1903 Olds Pirate Race Car replica that was driven by none other than Steve Moskowitz! Powered by a one cylinder 95 cu-in engine, 7hp @ 500rpm. But the city's famous connection with racing began in 1903 when the ... Stanley from Massachusetts built their first steam car. By the turn of the ... The race was won by Camille Jenatzy driving a Mercedes and representing Germany, in a time of six hours and 39 minutes, at an average speed of 79.2 km/h (49.2 ... The first formal automobile race occurred on June 13th 1895 with a route of Paris-Bordeaux-Paris. 732 miles were covered in slightly less ... ... first car race. They wanted to see which car was the fastest ... The colour first appeared in the 1903 Gordon Bennet Cup help in Ireland. This first Ford car, the Quadricycle, was completed in June 1896. Image of Henry Ford on a quadricycle. On August 19, 1899, he resigned from ... In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping ...