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Wolseley Racing consisted of a number of motor car racing efforts between 1903 and 1969 supported by Wolseley Motor Company which resulted in many victories and helped promote the brand and prowess of the company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=THE STORY OF THE WOLSELEY VIPER )〕 In addition to the company-sponsored racing there were individuals who entered Wolseley cars or cars with Wolseley motors into races. The history of Wolseley Racing can be split into three periods matching the history of the automobile: # The early days before World War I when the automotive industry and racing was in its infancy # between the wars after production was switched from a war effort back to domestic products and the innovations of WW1 had been applied to engine technology and # from after World War II to the present day. ==Before World War I== With Napier & Son, the Wolseley cars were Britain's only entries in early races such as the 1902 Gordon Bennett Cup and Paris-Vienna Trial, 1903 Paris–Madrid race, the 1904 Circuit des Ardennes and 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup where Charles Rolls was a driver. The 1903 race saw not only a Wolseley car driven by Herbert Austin himself (later to own the company) but another of the Wolseleys was involved in a high-speed accident (one of a number during the race) that ultimately caused this form of city to city road-racing to be banned.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Paris-Madrid Motor Car Race )〕 In 1907 Wolseley Italiana entered three x cars under the Wolsit name in the Coppa Florio with just one of them finishing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wolseley Racing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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