摘要：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.
其他摘要：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.
