Automobiles and motorsport in Rio de Janeiro between 1954 and 1959

Abstract

This article searched to evidence the motorsport trajectory in Rio de Janeiro between 1954 and 1959, demarcating the intersections among the national automobiles mass production, its influence in the city development and the habitus change that the society started to live. Methodologically a documentary analysis combined with a literature search was used. As research source was used the magazine "Revista de Automóveis" and the results pointed to: an urban growth leaded by automobiles, a society that transformed them in witness and accomplice of its public and private life, and a motorsport mismanaged which ran through the city according to its growing.