2025年2月27日 · Organized automobile racing began in the United States with an 87-km race from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois, and back on Thanksgiving Day in 1895. Both early races were sponsored by newspapers for promotional purposes.

2025年2月27日 · Sports-car racing, both amateur and professional, became popular in the United States in the late 1930s, the earliest cars being European-made. The U.S. governing body, the Sports Car Club of America (founded 1944), and the Canadian Automobile Sports Committee (founded 1951) cooperate closely.

2025年3月23日 · NASCAR, sanctioning body for stock-car racing in North America, founded in 1948 in Daytona Beach, Florida, and responsible for making stock-car racing a widely popular sport in the United States by the turn of the 21st century.

2025年3月15日 · Indianapolis 500, U.S. automobile race held almost every year since 1911. The race is always run at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, a suburban enclave of Indianapolis, Indiana. Drawing crowds of several hundred thousand people, the race is among the world’s best-attended single-day sporting events.

Motorcycle racing, the recreational and competitive use of motorcycles, a sport practiced by both professionals and amateurs on roads, tracks, closed circuits, and natural terrain. The development of motorcycling largely paralleled and often coincided with the development of automobile sports.

2025年2月5日 · 24 Hours of Le Mans, probably the world’s best-known automobile race, run annually (with few exceptions) since 1923 at the Sarthe road-racing circuit, near Le Mans, France. Since 1928 the winner has been the car that travels the greatest distance in …

2025年2月6日 · The Mille Miglia was an automobile race held on public roads in Italy from 1927 to 1957. Its name, in Italian, means “one thousand miles,” which refers to the race’s distance. It remains one of the most famous open-road races in motorsports history.

2025年3月14日 · All Grand Prix racing is for open-wheeled, single-seater (after 1924) cars, the engine size, fuel, and other elements being controlled by the FIA. Grand Prix racing became popular worldwide from the 1950s, when world championships for drivers and for constructors (manufacturers) were established.

2025年2月7日 · The development of racing as a popular sport in Europe began in the 1890s with the improvement in road conditions and the introduction of some of the one-day classics that continue to this day (for example, the Paris-Roubaix race).

Offroad racing, form of motor racing conducted over rough, unmarked, often desert terrain. An outgrowth of the post-World War II popularity of motorcycle trail racing, offroad racing involves contestants racing from checkpoint to checkpoint along improvised routes.