Auto Racing

 

    Auto racing / Automobile racing / Motorsport /Auto sport is a Professional and amateur sport practiced throughout the world in a variety of forms on roads, tracks, or closed circuits. It is one of the world‘s most popular spectator sports.

History

            Automobile racing began soon after the invention of the gasoline (Petrol) fueled internalcombustion engine in the 1880s. The first organized automobile competition, a reliability test in 1894 from Paris to Rouen, a distance of about 80 km (50 mi), was won with an average speed of 16.4 km/h (10.2 mi/h). In 1895 the first true race was held, from Paris to Bordeaux, in 1904 a world governing body of automobile racing was founded. It has had its present name, International Automobile Federation, since 1947. In early racing, in both Europe and the United States, competing race cars were usually prototypes of the following year's models. After World War I, racing became too specialized for the use of production cars, though occasionally high performance touring cars were stripped of their bodies and fitted with special seats, fuel tanks,and tires for racing. Still later stock-car racing in 1939 started with standard models modified for racing. 

TYPES

               It includes Grand Prix racing, speedway racing, stock-car racing, sports-car racing, drag racing, midget-car racing, and karting, as well as hill climbs and trials. National and international governing bodies, the most notable of which is the Federation International de Automobile (FIA), divide racing cars into various classes and subclasses and supervise competitions.