It always strikes me how quaint the past now looks. When Alfa Romeo won that first Grand Prix, the cars were front-engined, had no aerodynamics, rode on narrow tires, and their steering wheels were decades away from a single button, let alone screens, microchips, or multi-function displays.

If you could show those drivers a modern F1 car, they’d assume it was built by aliens.

Even beyond F1, imagine the participants of the first 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923 trying to comprehend a Ferrari 499P, a Peugeot 9X8, or any prototype from today’s WEC and IMSA grids.

And so the question is obvious:

If the last 75 years turned simple race cars into machines that resemble spacecraft, what might the next 100 years bring?