Lydston Hornsted ran 124.09 mph (199.70 km/h).Panhard & Levassor won countless races in the first decade of motorsport, as this in-period advert illustrates.Spain's young King Alfonso XIII was one of Hispano-Suiza's first customers and when Hispano-Suiza's racing voiturette won France's prestigious Coupe de l'Auto race in 1910 and turned it into a road car, Alfonso drove the new model, bought one and gave permission for the new model to carry his name. Jean Chassagne was the driver chosen to attack the one hour distance record. Ford's price advantage meant its top selling vehicle could be offered at such a price that it drove adoption by the masses, enabling affordable personal transportation to the common man for the second time, though in a far faster and more comfortable form than the bicycle. The Mercedes also won the 1901 Nice-Salon-Nice race in the hands of Wilhelm Werner, averaging 36 mph (58 km/h) during the week of automotive festivities. Many thanks to all who put this wonderful narration together. 999 above) was capable of 100 mph. As trying to pass made things even more difficult for the spectators on the narrow roads, the 224 starters were released one minute apart over four hours.Though more than 100 races had been run on European public roads prior with relatively few mishaps to non-combatants, this race was pure carnage for all, with 122 of the 224 starters failing to reach Bordeaux and three spectators and five racers dead. The race car drivers of the 1920s and 1930s were total badasses. This was the first "purpose built" car for a land speed record and was appropriately named "Jamais Contente" (Never Satisfied).

dictionary or other source to explain how the two meanings are connected by word Even if motorcars aren't your schtick and you don't know what it did, you will have heard of the "Thomas Flyer" even though the last one was made 97 years ago. Initially a run of 100 cars was planned for production but around 50 were built before WW1 got underway.On 27 November, 1912, Victor Hemery took one of the four 15-litre Lorraine-Dietrich Grand Prix cars built for the French Grand Prix in June to Brooklands, establishing a raft of records .Frenchman Jules Goux in the winning Peugeot at the 1913 Indianapolis 500.Sunbeam's new V12 of 1913 was far more powerful than anything previously fielded by the marque, effectively mating two of the record-breaking six-cylinder engines onto an aluminum crankcase for an engine displacing 9 liters (550 cu in) and producing 200 bhp (150 kW) at 2,400 rpm.Jules Goux (top left) was part of the four-man team which revolutionised engine design with the Peugeot Grand Prix racer of 1912. The outright world speed record and the land speed record were the same for many decades after Orville Wright's maiden flight, as planes were initially not as fast as cars, and the sustained number of automobile speed record attempts pushed the automobile ever faster.French marques made up the majority of the competitive racing cars at the turn of the century, led by Panhard & Levassor,The first five cars to Bordeaux in the famous 1,307 km (812 mile).With a price tag of £1750 against the £2000 of the newly-introduced 70-hp Mercedes, the 50-hp Panhard was the second most expensive car on the British market and the Mercedes 70-hp (above) which eventually began production in 1907, were the cream of the crop for fast luxury touring, more than capable of travelling at 60 mph in the right conditions.On 12 April 1913, Jules Goux took a specially streamlined version of the Grand Prix Peugeot named "La Torpille" with its DOHC 4-valve motor to a new world one hour distance record at Brooklands. It was built by Austro-Daimler, an Austrian subsidiary of the German DMG (Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft) that merged with Benz to become Mercedes-Benz 15 years later.The car was designed by Ferdinand Porsche and made a 1-2-3 clean sweep of the 1910 German Alpine "Prinz Heinrich Trial."

The Model 18 was the first low-priced, mass-marketed car to have a V8 engine, an important milestone in the American automotive industry. Within months, the great war consumed Europe and every available technology was repurposed. This was almost entirely due to the difficulty they had replenishing energy reserves in provincial France.Not a great deal is known about Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat's motivations, but prior to his first land speed record, he competed in many of the first autoracing events in history, and in all but one event in his racing career, he chose steam or electric propulsion methods.Count Gaston's initial record was almost certainly set with a standard Jeantaud model and involved him covering one kilometer (0.62 miles) with a flying-start in 57 seconds for an average speed 62.78 km/h. and F.O. That's Willy heading off on the run that would take the record, and it's from the.America's first auto race had just two finishers, and was won by a car with a single cylinder engine that averaged just 6.7 mph for the shortened 52.3 mile distance from Chicago to Evanston and back. The car was designed by Ferdinand Porsche and made a 1-2-3 clean sweep of the 1910 German Alpine "Prinz Heinrich Trial." "It shows the American car is on par with the foreign machine, and it marks the beginning of the end of the European supremacy," claimed Robert Lee Morell at the Auto Club of America at a luncheon upon the car's arrival in the US.While the best known Prinz Heinrich "race replicas" were produced by Austro-Daimler and Vauxhall in 1911, the,The inaugural 1908 Prinz Heinrich Fahrt was won by a Benz driven and designed by another important motorsport figure –.Record attempts were so plentiful in this period that it's difficult to keep track of them all.