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Auto Racing

Humans are competitive between each other and are always trying to win. So they compete in athletic games or races in order to earn glory or to prove something. One athletic field is Motorsports, which is is the group of competitive events which primarily involve the use of motorized vehicles. Motor racing is the subset of motorsport which involve competitors racing against each other.1

Auto racing (also known as automobile racing, car racing or motorcar racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.2

An Auto racing championship has five main participants:

Cars and Homologations

Any car that is intented to participate in Motor Racing, must be checked whether it follows certain specific criteria as noted before. Once it is approved, any driver can officially participate in any National and International Auto racing event using the approved (homologated) car.

Approval or Homologation in Motor racing has the following characteristics:

FIA is responsible for World Racing Events that were and are taking place in all over the world. Some kinds of racing championships are run in open roads, in conditions such as gravel, tarmac or snow, such as Rally Championship or Sports cars Championship or Touring cars Championship. Since '70s Sports cars and Touring cars championships were no longer run in open roads due to safety reasons. All other events are taking place in closed circuits with much higher safety, but with higher speeds.

There are several categories of Racing Cars, with open or covered wheels, that can participate to an "open road" or "closed circuit" motor racing championship.
Touring cars See database
Grand Touring Sports cars See database and technological history
Prototype Sports cars See database
Prototype Formula cars See database

All four categories must have specific production numbers of identical examples made, and some restrictions on modifications that can be made to improve its performance. Usually, all racing cars are modified to, or are initially built as Sports Cars, meaning that only one or two seat/doors are necessary. All cars are built by manufacturers.

Basic characteristic of a racing car: Roll center geometry