Motorsport in Rio de Janeiro City: Driver memories and street races between 1954 and 1966

Authors

  • Rodrigo Vilela Elias Universidade Gama Filho
  • Ludmila Mourão Universidade Gama Filho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.9778

Keywords:

Motorsport. Sport. Industry. Politics.

Abstract

This research deals with motorsport development and its relations with the urban growth of Rio de Janeiro between 1954 and 1966, including the end of the “Circuito da Gávea” and the construction of the Speedway. The oral history and the literature of the sport helped to clarify the changes related to the involvement of the motorsport with politics, the arrival of the automotive industry, the popularization of automobile, and social and urban changes. The results pointed to a sense of troubled development allocated between national prosperity and bad administration of motoring, which was marked by immediate, improvised and private actions.

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Author Biographies

Rodrigo Vilela Elias, Universidade Gama Filho

Mestrando em Educação Física, Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Gama Filho, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil. Bolsista do CNPq. E-mail: rodrigovilelaelias@gmail.com. Rua Desembargador Isidro nº160/ap802 Cep: 20521-160. Bairro: Tijuca.

Ludmila Mourão, Universidade Gama Filho

Doutora, Professora da Universidade Gama Filho no curso de Graduação e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil. E-mail: Ludmila.mourao@terra.com.br. Rua Mário Pederneiras nº4/ap204 Cep: 22261-020. Bairro: Humaitá. 

Published

2010-05-08

How to Cite

ELIAS, Rodrigo Vilela; MOURÃO, Ludmila. Motorsport in Rio de Janeiro City: Driver memories and street races between 1954 and 1966. Movimento, [S. l.], v. 16, n. 3, p. 49–68, 2010. DOI: 10.22456/1982-8918.9778. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/article/view/9778. Acesso em: 1 nov. 2026.

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