{"id":315901,"date":"2010-11-01T11:53:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T15:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=315901"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:38:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:38:25","slug":"grand-prix-history-origins-of-organized-racing-the-first-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/grand-prix-history-origins-of-organized-racing-the-first-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Prix History &#8211; Organized Racing &#038; The First Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Motor Racing History &#8211; Origins of the First Automobile Races and the First Grand Prix<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Dawn of Automobile Racing<\/h2>\n<p>The dawn of automobile racing was anything but that. It was thought that a car&#8217;s ability to navigate roads in a reliable manner was all that could be hoped for. Outright speed was not even considered important that is until the flag dropped &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The first event to have been planned was to have been a short trial in Paris organized by &#8220;Le Velocipede&#8221; in 1887, but only one competitor turned up and so it was abandoned. The first organized event was actually a Reliability Trial run from Paris to Rouen in 1894 over a distance of 126 km. It was organized by a newspaper, Le Petite Journal, and the winning &#8220;horseless carriage&#8221; had to be &#8220;safe, easily controllable and reasonably economical to run.&#8221; Twenty one entries left Paris on July 22nd, and the first home was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandprixhistory.org\/dion.htm\">Count de Dion<\/a>\u00a0in a steam driven De Dion tractor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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Outright speed was not even considered important that is until the flag dropped &#8230; The first event to have been planned was to have been a short trial in Paris organized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":795421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,3766,11272,261,18124,16918,18207],"tags":[17152,12478,545,11349,11351,17140,452,548,13225,13365,17143],"class_list":["post-315901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-history","category-members-only","category-motorsport-racing","category-the-stories","category-races","category-special-feature","tag-car-culture","tag-formula-libre","tag-history","tag-gp-history","tag-motorsport-history","tag-members-only","tag-mille-miglia","tag-motorsport","tag-history-of-formula-1","tag-formula-1-history","tag-special-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grand Prix History - Organized Racing &amp; The First Grand Prix<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/grand-prix-history-origins-of-organized-racing-the-first-grand-prix\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grand Prix History - Organized Racing &amp; The First Grand Prix\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Motor Racing History &#8211; Origins of the First Automobile Races and the First Grand Prix Dawn of Automobile Racing The dawn of automobile racing was anything but that. 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