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06/13/2016 at 11:14 • Filed to: None
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"fifanatic" (f1fanatic)
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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.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hi…
kanadanmajava1
> fifanatic
06/13/2016 at 11:38 |
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“Out of 46 entries, Levassor finished first but was later disqualified on a technicality; first place went to a Peugeot that finished 11 hours behind him.”
So the first ever person to win an automobile race was actually disqualified. This sport begun very seriously...