The weirdest, most unusual car races in the world

Rallying on an early 20th century Ford quadracycle on a dirt track while holding a pig to be left inside a cage at the end of each leg. We are not joking. This is one of the very bizarre car races that we want to share with you today at caring-for-your-vehicle. Pig n 'Ford is held every year at the Tillamook County Fair in Oregon (US). It all began in 1925, when two farmers had to chase a pig that had escaped.

Another striking race -for its solemnity- is the Bonhams Veteran Car Run. Held in England on the first Sunday of November, this race features cars manufactured before 1905. Every year, hundreds of participants and their vintage cars from all over the world enter the competition, travelling a 95 kilometres distance from London to Brighton. The Run commemorates the passing into law of the Locomotives on the 1896 Highway Act, which raised the speed limit for 'light locomotives' from 4 mph to 14 mph.

There are very many original rallies. Held in Australia every other year, the World Solar Challenge is a race for vehicles driven only by the power of the sun. Teams from universities, companies and schools around the world face the challenge of travelling 3,000 kilometres with the sun as the only fuel. In colder countries, instead of sunlight, the cars entering the race are moved by the wind. Racing Aeolus Den Helder is one of the most sustainable races in the world. It takes place in The Netherlands. Teams of university students manufacture their own vehicles and compete against Aeolus, the Greek keeper of the winds.

Also from The Netherlands, Reverse Racing is a very peculiar rally in which cars compete in reverse gear. This singular race dates back to the 1980s. And if you don’t think that is dangerous enough, there is a car race in which vehicles have flat steel plates instead of rear wheels. A ‘sparky’ rally indeed, as you would imagine.

Organised in many cities from all over the world,Crazy Red Bull Race is one of the  most extravagant races. In 2000, the Belgians were the first to organise this competition with local amateur teams that made the strangest and funniest racing cars to go down a slope moved by gravity.

More weird races: Train Racing is not a train race but a race with three cars that make up a train. But with just two drivers! The first one steers the first vehicle and the second one operates the brakes of the third vehicle. The car in between has no driver. Car races with cars pulling trailers than end up absolutely torn into pieces, motorcycles with sidecars, small scooters used by people with reduced mobility at incredible speeds... You name it, dear CarLovers.

If you want to see some of these rallies, click on this video.