On This Day In Car History: The World's First Real Auto Race
"On this day in 1895, Emile Levassor drives a Panhard et Levassor car with a two-cylinder, 750-rpm, four-horsepower Daimler Phoenix engine over the finish line in the world’s first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about 15 miles per hour."
Source: History.com
Comments
kewl doode
K3WL D00D
[DELETED]
49 hours at 15 mph.
Eat that Le Mans.
Drop what you’re doing and write an article on this bad motherfu cker
I already knew this. [Smugness intensifies] There is an F1 encyclopedia in my english room. They stopped for lunch on the way.
So, the “information” i heard that motor racing has begun since the second car has been built is fake?
Well this was the first “official” race but you can bet people street raced if that’s even what it would be called.
That’s pretty cool! I was only allowed to go 15 mph when I was first learning to drive my grandpa’s truck in an abandoned mall parking lot. I thought I was moving pretty quick then. Lol