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Grand Prize of the Automobile Club
France in the period from 1914 to 1939
During the imperialist war, 19I4-1918. Car races in all countries ceased. In the U.S. a break lasted only two years (1917 and 1918.). After the war, the race for the Grand Prix ACF was resumed in 1921 when racing formula restricted engine capacity of 3 liters. The best result showed "Dyuzenberg" (J. Murphy). This is the only major success of U.S. racing in European competition. Wealthy American firms rarely showed a desire to use motor sport as a base for technological experiments and research. As a result, American racing cars at that time were less fast and reliable than European. Series races for the cup Vanderbilt, organized by the United States in 1904-1916 years and later, in 1936-1937. In almost all cases ended in victory for the representatives of Europe.
The same character was road races on Grand Prix USA, held during the period from 1908 to 1916 While the U.S. strongly backed up the construction of European sports cars. After the First World War, road races in the U.S. permanently ceased, and all sports activities were transferred to the racing tracks.
The most gifted American designers of sports cars (X. Miller, and F. Dyuzenberg) were deprived of financial support and could not successfully resist European competition. The success of the Americans in 1921 due to unpreparedness of the European industry, hard hit during the war. Significance and had a long break to work on racing cars, in the U.S., as stated above, a break was short-lived.
At this time of national automobile clubs have the right to organize every year in his country some international races on the Grand Prix (Grand Prix). In this way, in the period from 1921 to 1930, he created a system of competitions for great prizes in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Tripoli, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia, Monaco, etc. All these races were subordinate to the international racing formula, asserted AIACR. Car firms building race cars are usually involved in all these races (six - ten of the season). |
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