Motor racing or automobile racing or car racing, is a motorsport that began from the first time a gasoline-fueled automobile was invented. The first race that was organized was in April 28, 1887 by Monsieur Fossier, the chief editor of le Velocipede publication. A two-kilometer run from Neuilly Bridge to the Bois de Bouogne, the first racer who won in history was Georges Buoton of the De Dion-Buoton Company. Technically, Fossier is the first motor racing face that should be honored for his win but he won only by default since he was the only competitor who showed up for the race.
In 1894, however, the first seriously organized car race, did take place in France with 69 cars that entered into what was promoted back then as a “Competition or Horseless Carriages” or the Concours des Voitures sans Chevaux. Car companies that joined the said contest were the likes of Peugeot and Panhard, also known as De Dion. The rest were amateur car owners wherein only 25 were selected to join in the race. Count Jules-Albert de Dion reached the finished line first, followed by Georges Lemaitre, Doriot, Rene Panhard, and Emile Levassor, respectively.
In the modern era, there are a few motor racing faces that are worth mentioning for the accomplishments in the sport. One of them is Ayrton Senna, a three time World Driving Champion who was killed in the 1994 season on a tragic accident in Imola. Another name worth mentioning is Lewis Hamilton, a rookie driver who was first noticed in 2007 in the second race of the F1 season of the Malaysian Grand Prix. Mario Andretti is yet another name that has become so known that his name has become synonymous to the sport itself. Winning races in Formula 1, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and Nascar, Andretti has dived into one form of racing to another. A.J. Foyt, on the o ther hand, didn’t do too bad himself. With a career in racing that has spanned for 35 years, he is the only driver to have won the front and rear engine car racing twice. Another driver in the modern era is Mark Dohohue who competed and won in both Trans-Am and NASCAR races during the earlier part of the 1970s.
The fast paced life of motor racing also makes finding new talented and skilled drivers easy and quick. But with the many legendary motor racing faces in modern history, rookies would have to do a lot better than their predecessors to also one day earn a slot as a memorable face of the motor racing world.
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