The First Motor Races
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- This is my first attempt at making a video with no prior experience.
The races in this video range from 1867 to 1898 with the main focus on the 3 'Paris Races' of 1894, '95 and '96.
If you have any feedback then please let me know because although this a spare time thing for me I do want to try and get it right.
No copyright infringement is intended and as far as I'm aware I have not infringed through Fair Use. I have credited all photos that were not in public domain.
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Great analysis of the events to what in my opinion is quite a complicated question as i believe most people would consider the 1895 "competition" to be the first race, your video brought a lot of clarity to this matter, thanks a lot for your effort. Also Levassor is a hero for putting his life at risk at the cost of not hurting an animal, racing back then could be truly terrifying at times, as you show in your video about the 1903 race. Have a nice day!
Wow thank you very much. You have a nice day too
That was a great debut. Well done. It's sort of surprising how few documentaries there are dealing with the dawn of motor sport. Thanks for sharing. :)
Thanks a lot! I think there's not much on early racing because there really isn't a lot of info on it
I have been looking for this exact video without knowing it. I will say I enjoyed every moment of it and the quality is good its a shame your not more popular.
Thank you mate! More videos are in the making 🙂
Stellar video man, I've been getting into some of this history lately, and your video is hands down the best video I've found anywhere on CZcams on pre-1900 motor racing.
wow that's very nice to say, thank you! I honestly really cringe at my own stuff but I'm glad people like them
5:23 Totally sounds like a vampire.
I've learned something here, I'm from Oldham, never knew the very first race took place near here.
This is actually amazing... unique of its kind!
I feel like this could be interpreted as either a compliment or an insult!
@@MostlyRacing nono sir it's a compliment! 😂 I tried to find videos about racing history on youtube but urs just trumped way ahead over the too short clips that are marginally relevant to what i'm searching for, or hour long documentary with boring voice. Your is amazing and exactly what i wanted to learn about!
Well thank you very much for the kind words and glad you enjoyed it!
I struggle to watch these early ones back again truth be told, will probably remake them at some point
I'm surprised you did not mention Hippolyte Panhard in mentioning the famous players in the first motor races. His fathers contribution to automotive history, and indeed the car itself, is perhaps greater than just about anyone, other than maybe Benz, Daimler and Ford. His cars dominated the races and trials between 1890 and 1900.
Levassor was no fool, and his friend Panhard was his key to success, as we see by what happened with Panhard after Levassor died from his crash. De Dion was fundamental to early car success, as his access to the nobility of Europe, ensured there was a market for them when most cost as much as a house, and he too had vision in design. The Renault and Peugeot contributions, the former even sacrificing one of their own, cannot be understated either, they were part of the movement that put France well ahead of even the Germans by the mid 1890s in automotive development. Yet almost no one in French automotive history can compare to the legacy of Panhard. Not even Ettore Bugatti.
Back in those days, you see, there was NO clear cut, defined, layout and operational UI for cars. How many wheels, how you steered, how the brakes worked, etc etc.
Rene Panhard, later with his son, the Hippolyte of that first race, would lead the way in engineering and design in the automotive industry for the first decade of the 'Racing' era. They won EVERYTHING. They made Daimler's first winning engine. Panhard even won the Grand Prize at the World Expo of 1904. Most of all though. Panhard nutted out the basics.
The control basics of pedals were he know them, steering how we know it, and of course, the front engine, rear wheel drive multi-box layout.
In fact, whilst few might remember this today, when we just say FR layout for such cars, that layout became officially, technically, called the Panhard Design. Car magazines and manuals which wanted to let people know what layout the car bore, if it was not obvious, would state 'of a Panhard design'.
Just about every car from 1900 until 1980 and the rise of Front Wheel Drive, and All Wheel Drive, was of THIS, of a "Panhard Design" layout.
Hey, that is fantastic info! The video was the first one I made and I know I didn't do as much research as I should have (basically all info from Wikipedia). For some reason this video has done really well but I feel it is my weakest because I didn't know what I was doing!!
Found a quote in an article: "The little one, with five passengers upon it, passed the other in the first mile, and kept a good lead of it all the way, arriving at Old Trafford under the hour"
If this is true, and the race was, as you say, around 8 miles, that would make average speed of around 7-8 MPH
Edit: another quote says "The engine made by Mr. Boulton ran the first four miles in sixteen minutes." That would be a whooping 15 MPH
Speeds I can only dream of in my Clio! Yeah I'll be the first to admit I probably do enough research as I should have, especially early on. Primarily because I didn't expect anyone would watch
From Green Bay Wisconsin - That company (Oshkosh) named for the city that competed in the first US race is still in business in Wisconsin, and is wildly successful. Invented four wheel drive back vehicles in the day, and now builds heavy military vehicles and fire trucks.
Also, you pronounced Green Bay correctly. Was originally Bay Verte in French. Folks here pronounce it GREEN bay. Folks in US not from here pronounce it green BAY. So, correctly pronounced, our name describes a green that is bay, not a bay that is green.
Enjoyed your work on this documentary.
Good to see they're still going strong!
Amazing when you consider they went from 19 mph to over 75 in just two years.
Clever, amusing, informative. Nice work
Thank you!!
The little mangling of the Français, I think added to it all, that was superb and a worthy presentation, sensibly serious with a deft touch of levity.
Why worry about pronouncing correctly, we Brits have a tradition of ambivalence when it comes to our old enemies so I’d suggest mangling all Foreign words as horribly as you can manage as it’s fitting for that early era.
The Entente Cordiale didn’t come about until 1907 and it was never actually formally signed between Great Britain and France so nobody will mind.
Bof
Good job for your first video. Interesting stuff for sure.
Excellent job
Cheers man
Wow! That was great research !!!!!
It was great research, well done to all those people on Wikipedia!
Great Video!! The 1895 Torino-Asti-Torino race could also be considered as the first race although there is not really a lot of information available
Very true and I'm sure there are loads of races which happened around the same time which have been lost to history. I wanted to focus on the ACF events as there is a narrative which links them to the Gordon Bennett races which are linked to the first Grand Prix
@@MostlyRacing Are you gonna do any more videos?
@@fleischmannch5260 Eventually, I started making these when I was struggling for work but now I'm full time so it's hard to find the time. I started scripting a video back at Christmas time and haven't gotten very far with it! I would have responded to your comment sooner but it's the first time I've logged in for like 6 months
@@MostlyRacing ahh ok, good luck with work then
Great job.
Dankon.👍
Excellent, informative video.
Thanks Benji!
Just thinking about how the chugging of a steam engine was also the sound of the first racing rpm’s 🥲