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Originally posted by Tervuren
svandamme, how many European's won the Indy 500 in the 1910's, and 1920's?
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in an era where traveling atlantic , took quite some time ( no planes yet Sherlock ) , i doubt any European actually knew the name of the Indy 500...
we had our own tracks, and were quite happy racing on those
i'm going to be a bit lazy today, and quote Wikipedia
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For the most part, races were run over a lengthy circuit of closed public roads, not purpose-built private tracks. This was true of the Le Mans circuit of the 1906 Grand Prix, as well as the Targa Florio (run on 93 miles of Sicilian roads), the German Kaiserpreis circuit (75 miles in the Taunus mountains), and the French circuit at Dieppe (a mere 48 miles), used for the 1907 Grand Prix. The exceptions were the steeply banked egg-shaped near oval of Brooklands in England, completed in 1907, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, first used in 1909 with the first Indianapolis 500-Mile Race in 1911, and the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, in Italy, opened in 1922.
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93 miles of Sicilian roads , vs going round and round the Indy Oval
or maybe 75 miles of Taunus mountains?? of crusing around 48 miles in Dieppe?? i Guess Sicilie had straight highways only...
same for the German mountains...(untill Hitler , claimed to have invented the highway all over again, cheecky bugger he was )
or racing at Brooklands 2 years before Indy even had a track???
seriously Tervuren... exnay on the potsmokingyay
artist rendition of a couple of European Drivers who don't know how to corner...dated 1912
another one , same date, Dieppes... again , Europeans totally crap at that corner thing..
map of the Targa Florio race... notice the complete lack of any bends or corners... it's all straight...