The first car race came almost as soon as cars did
It is a fundamental law of human nature that as soon as two people own the same thing, they must immediately figure out whose is better. In 1895, a handful of lunatics raced their noisy, unreliable motorized carriages from Paris to Bordeaux and back. They averaged a blistering 15 mph, proving that our need for speed vastly outpaces our survival instincts.

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