1896 in motorsport

The following is an overview of the events of 1896 in motorsport, including the major racing events, racing festivals, circuits that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.

List of years in motorsport
In sports
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908

Events

It was the first year with motorsport competition with 1896 Paris–Marseille–Paris as the first race.[1]

Births
Date Month Name Nationality Occupation Note Ref
26 July Tim Birkin British Racing driver 24 Hours of Le Mans winner (1929, 1931). [2]
6 December Bernard Rubin Australian Racing driver 24 Hours of Le Mans winner (1928). [3]
28 Philippe Étancelin French Racing driver 24 Hours of Le Mans winner (1934). [4]
gollark: Technically, floats are just rationals except everything is divided by some specific very large constant.
gollark: At GTech™, we have access to infinite computers, so we just store arbitrary real numbers.
gollark: Because you are forced to inaccurately and slowly approximate surds and pi and everything else.
gollark: Those are bad though.
gollark: Happy inferior circle constant.

References
  1. "TeamDan Early results database - 1896". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  2. "Tim Birkin". motorsportmagazine.com. Motor Sport Magazine. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  3. "Bernard Rubin". motorsportmagazine.com. Motor Sport Magazine. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  4. "Philippe Entancelin". ESPN. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
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