Racing Schools
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Racing began promptly after the construction of the first acknowledged petrol-fueled autos; before that time people raced in other vehicles such as horse-drawn buggies |
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| The first race ever organized, by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Messieur Fossier, was on April 28 1887 and ran 2 kilometers from Neuilly Bridge to the Bois de Boulogne. |
These bare fruitful races ended in 1903 when Marcel Renault was involved in a URL fatal accident near Angouleme in the Paris-Madrid race. Nine fatalities caused the French government to stop the race in Bordeaux and ban open-road racing.