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27th January 2016, 00:15 #11
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Not if you are counting the Rainhill Trials!
Member of Parliament William Huskisson was run over by the Rocket & fatally injured during those Trials. Despite being rushed to hospital by Rocket he later died of his injuries. There is a trackside memorial at the site of the accident. His death is also widely acknowledged to be the first passenger railway fatality.
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27th January 2016, 02:51 #12
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He was killed at an event dedicated to opening the track, yes.
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27th January 2016, 09:57 #13
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I am not convinced it was the 'first' (haven't checked), but Auto Union had a ground effects racing car already around 1937-1938. Four decades before the famous Colin Chapman innovation!
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27th January 2016, 12:33 #14
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I think the Opel RAK.1 car might have been the first racing car with a wing(s) in 1928.
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29th January 2016, 16:40 #15
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As far as I can find, the first driver who died as the result of an accident in an auto race may have been Emile Levassor who was seriously injured in a crash in the 1896 Paris-Marseille-Paris Race. He survived several months but did eventually die of his injuries.
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30th January 2016, 15:26 #16
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There was the race on the Narragansett Park horse race track in Cranston, Rhode Island, USA in September 1896. This is claimed as the first race on a track in the USA, and probably in the world.
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1st February 2016, 01:49 #17
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I believe the last new front engine car to appear for qualifying in the Indy 500 was the 1969 Jack Adams Airplanes Special. It was a front engine AWD turbine vehicle. Al Miller practiced in the car but it failed to qualify.
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15th February 2016, 01:03 #18
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The first and last auto race track with banking greater than 55 degrees was the Autodromo de Sitges-Terramar built in 1923 near Barcelona, Spain. The one and a quarter mile concrete kidney shaped quasi-oval had (has) 60 degree banked turns at each end! Does "terramar" mean terrifying in Spanish?
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18th February 2016, 21:10 #19
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The Sitges track still exists. It is possible to walk all round it.
I think this is the track where they got the geometry of the transitions from straights to bends wrong.Duncan Rollo
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19th February 2016, 02:20 #20
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This is what a 60 degree (at the top) banked turn looks like.racetracks_main.jpg
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