This year marks the 130th anniversary of world motorsports. Are you curious about what the car looked like more than 100 years ago, and how did the automobile movement gradually come to this day after countless explorations and innovations? As one of the important activities of the 2024 Shanghai Automobile Culture Festival, the "Sprout, Rise, Change: The Centennial Theme Exhibition of World Automobile Sports" is on display at the Jiading District Library, unveiling the mystery of the long scroll of automobile history.
Walking through the exhibition hall of Jiading District Library, it is like traveling through time and space. In the context of time and in the form of memorabilia, this exhibition reviews the important nodes in the century-old development history of automobile sports, shows the continuous progress of automobile sports in technological development and scientific and technological innovation, and vividly restores the magnificent historical process of world motor sports in the past 130 years.
Among the visitors, there are many enthusiasts who have a strong interest in car culture, and citizen Zhou Yini stopped in front of the photo of the first female driver in F1. When she learns that in 1958, Italian racing driver Maria Theresa de Felippis was the first woman to compete in the Formula One World Championship (F1) and finished 10th in the Belgian Grand Prix, Zhou excitedly said: "I have always been curious about motorsports, but I didn't know much about its history. This exhibition gave me a deeper understanding of the origins, development and transformation of motor sports, as well as the power of 'her power', which was really shocking. ”
It is worth mentioning that the exhibition also tells in detail about the composition and history of the circuit, the development of motor sports safety, the construction of China's international circuit and the early exploration of the automobile industry, and leads the public to feel the atmosphere of racing and racing a hundred years ago through old photos and short stories.
After viewing the exhibition, Jin Xiaodan, a citizen, exclaimed: "This exhibition is really wonderful! It not only shows the technological innovation of motor sports, but also embodies the unremitting pursuit of speed and limit of human beings." This is of great significance for the promotion of automobile culture. ”
"2024 coincides with the 130th anniversary of world motor sports, the 20th anniversary of the F1 Chinese Grand Prix and the 20th anniversary of the completion of the Shanghai International Circuit, so we co-organized this exhibition with the Shanghai Automobile Museum, the team of Professor Yao Qiming of Tongji University, and the Anting Town Culture and Sports Service Center. Zhang Yanyun, director of the counseling department of Jiading District Library, said that this exhibition is an important attempt for the district library to explore the form of "car + reading" service, hoping to lead readers to follow the footsteps of history and understand the technological development and technological innovation of automobile sports.
"On May 5th, the 'Little Car, Big World' popular science class will lead young readers to understand the world of motorsports and build a solar-powered car that can run without gasoline with their parents. Zhang Yanyun said that next, the district library will dig deep into the endowment of Jiading's automobile cultural resources, through lectures, exhibitions, parent-child experience, automatic driving and other forms, to show the rapid development of Jiading's automobile industry and the profound heritage of automobile culture, and provide more new reading power for Jiading to build a "smart automobile city humanistic education place".
"Sprout", "rise" and "change" are not only an accurate summary of the century-old history of the world's automobile sports, but also a vivid portrayal of Jiading's continuous pursuit of innovation and change in the development of the automobile industry and culture. Jiading, known as the "Automobile City", has now developed into the largest automobile industry, the most complete industrial chain and the most significant industrial agglomeration among the single cities in China. The high-level industrial innovation and transformation and the high-standard super-first-class racing experience have continuously promoted the rapid development of automobile culture in this land and bloomed with more brilliant brilliance.
It is reported that the "Chasing the Wind - 130 Years of World Motor Sports Theme Exhibition" will kick off on May 17 at the Shanghai Automobile Museum, and the exhibition will last for three months.
Service Information
Sprout and emerge change
-- The theme exhibition of the centennial of world motor sports
place
Jiading District Library Exhibition Hall
Time
Same Day - May 12, 2024
Chase the wind
——130 Years of World Motor Sports Theme Exhibition
place
Shanghai Automobile Museum 1F temporary exhibition hall
Time
May 17, 2024 - August 17, 2024
Written by: Yang Yujie, Qian Yidi (intern)
Cinematographer: Zhang Yukai
Editor: Wu Lirong