About motor racing
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Motor racing is one of the world's most popular spectator sports and has been around since the construction of the first petrol-fueled autos. There are many categories of motor racing including, formula 1, rally racing, touring car racing, drag racing, off road racing and kart racing. Out of these categories formula 1 is without a doubt the most popular and commercialized one. The first real auto race was staged in 1895 and was a city to city race between Paris and Bordeaux in France, which was the leading nation in racing up until a fatal accident in 1903 caused the French government to ban open-road racing.
Betting on motor racing is focused on Nascar and F1 championships and also WRC rally and the Moto GP motorcycle tours.
Formula 1
This is the worlds largest class for single-seat open-wheel formula auto racing. It consists of 19 (in 2005) grand prix races around the world on especially designed courses or closed-off street circuits (Monte Carlo Grand Prix).
The tour has lately been dominated by Michael Schumacher in the Ferrari team, and interest in the tour has dropped due to this. For that reason in 2004 several F1 restrictions came into effect to try make it more competitive.
Nascar
The name is an abbreviation of "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing" and it is the body sanctioning several racing events in the US the largest beeing the NEXTEL Cup, the Busch Series and the Craftsman Truck Series. This is with out doubt one of the most poular motor events for betting on in the US.
WRC
Is the World Rally Championship consisting of 16 rallies all over the world and in different types of cirquits, from snow to desert sand. The culmination of the championship is a winner driver and manufacturer. This is a fun spectator sport to bet on since the different enviroments changes extremely from race to race. |