Wolseley Racing

Wolseley Racing consisted of a number of motor car racing efforts between 1903 and 1969 supported by Wolseley Motor Company which resulted in many victories and helped promote the brand and prowess of the company.

The history of Wolseley Racing can be split into three periods matching the history of the automobile: With Napier & Son, the Wolseley cars were Britain's only entries in early races such as the 1902 Gordon Bennett Cup and Paris-Vienna Trial, 1903 Paris–Madrid race, the 1904 Circuit des Ardennes and 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup where Charles Rolls was a driver.

The 1903 race saw not only a Wolseley car driven by Herbert Austin himself (later to own the company) but another of the Wolseleys was involved in a high-speed accident (one of a number during the race) that ultimately caused this form of city to city road-racing to be banned.

[2] In 1907 Wolseley Italiana entered three x cars under the Wolsit name in the Coppa Florio with just one of them finishing.

The Moth cars were based on the Wolseley 10 or 15 and the Hornet Racer built with a "Special Speed Chassis".