Motor Racing
- NASCAR Championship – Tim Flock in a Hudson Hornet
- AAA Racing –
- 30 May – Troy Ruttman wins the 36th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Agajanian Special Kuzma-Offenhauser
- Chuck Stevenson wins the season championship
- Formula One – Alberto Ascari (Italy) is World Drivers' Champion, driving for Ferrari
- June 14–15 – Hermann Lang / Fritz Reiss share a Mercedes-Benz 300SL to win the 20th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
- Rally racing –
- Sydney Allard / Guy Warburton wins the Monte Carlo Rally driving an Allard J2
- Drag racing – In cities and towns across North America, drag racing begins to move from the streets to organized events usually at abandoned airport strips.
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“We disparage reason.
But all the time it’s what we’re most concerned with.
There’s will as motor and there’s will as brakes.
Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
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