Unveiling the First Race Car The Catalyst of Motorsport History

Charles Duryea won the first automobile race ever run in America, on Thanksgiving Day, 1895. There were six contestants. On the 24th of May,1903, as the sun rose, the streets of Paris saw the start of an ill-fated experiment in motor racing, organized by the ... In 1903 when, from the gardens of Versailles, the Paris Madrid departed, "the greatest race since the invention of the car", the first factories of motor ... Without much lead time, the turnout for that first race series was small. On March 26, 1903, the first time trials were held. Entrants were Alexander Winton ... With the steering wheel instead of tiller, this photo was taken in late 1903 or early 1904, after Henry Ford rebuilt and upgraded the wrecked ... Henry Ford's first company built a car in 1901. The Ford Motor Company started in 1903 and produced the Model A. Premier built this special race car to compete in the 1905 American Elimination Trial and Vanderbilt Cup Race. The four-cylinder car had a huge ... Barney Oldfield won his first race in 1902 in this Ford Race Car, "999". The car had a steering bar, not a steering wheel. (Henry Ford ... Its unparalleled performance capabilities were most prominently displayed at the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup in Ireland, where Belgian racing driver ... ... race, making the second best time, and the photograph shows him as he arrives at Bordeaux. The Renault car thus takes the first place in the light-weight class.