Race cars have been around since the 1895!
Although race cars have always been expensive, modern day race cars can cost more than 10 million dollars!
Modern day race cars are very complicated machines that only trained race car drivers can drive safely.
Although they are so expensive, modern race cars can only last for one or two races before their engines stop working properly!
During a race some of the parts in a modern race car can reach the temperature of molten lava!
Race cars can reach speeds of up to 224 kilometres per hour.
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