5 cars that changed the face of racing forever

If there’s a way to make something competitive, humans will find it. Take the car for instance. It was pretty much built to stop us from drowning in horse poop, but just a few years of the successful construction of the world’s first gasoline-powered automobile, we were racing them.

According to the wise minds over at Wikipedia, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world’s first motoring competition on 23 July 1894.

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