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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 ....
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.... are built now solely for the purpose of racing. Sports cars used for racing,
such as rallies, may be either rebuilt production vehicles or pure racing
machines. Drag racers are cars built to accelerate rapidly to high speeds over
very short straight tracks, or drag strips, generally about 400 m (3 mi) long.
The race most popularly associated with the sport is the Indianapolis 500, so
called because contestants must cover 500 mi (about 805 km); it has been held
annually on Me ....
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