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

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Anonymous

kewl doode

06/13/2017 - 18:57 |
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Anonymous

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K3WL D00D

06/13/2017 - 19:00 |
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Anonymous

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06/13/2017 - 19:01 |
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Anonymous

49 hours at 15 mph.
Eat that Le Mans.

06/13/2017 - 19:02 |
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CZ 69% Muscle

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Drop what you’re doing and write an article on this bad motherfu cker

06/13/2017 - 19:09 |
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BoostAddict 1

I already knew this. [Smugness intensifies] There is an F1 encyclopedia in my english room. They stopped for lunch on the way.

06/13/2017 - 19:26 |
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Axolol

So, the “information” i heard that motor racing has begun since the second car has been built is fake?

06/13/2017 - 21:00 |
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Drew Holt

In reply to by Axolol

Well this was the first “official” race but you can bet people street raced if that’s even what it would be called.

06/13/2017 - 21:15 |
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Anonymous

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

06/14/2017 - 15:49 |
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