Sports Car Racing in Mexico. The First Clubs and Competitions (20th Century)

The article analyzes one of the most representative manifestations of modern sports: sports car racing. It seeks to contribute to the study of the clubs, considered by some academics to be one of the fundamental aspects in the process of consolidation of the modern sport. The study presents the transformations that the reception of the automobile produced in Mexican society, proposing as its central hypothesis that the elite during the regime of Porfirio Diaz created the first automobile clubs in line with a set of economic interests and demonstrating that the competitions were a detonator for developing certain industries within the same territory. Finally, it concludes that the study of the modern sport and its clubs should incorporate a sense of enterprise into the analysis of the sport.