Motor Racing
- November 2 – death of Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver during practice for the Mexican Grand Prix
- Stock car racing –
- Fireball Roberts wins the Daytona 500 in the #22 Pontiac
- NASCAR Championship - Joe Weatherly (for Bud Moore in the #8 Pontiac)
- 30 May – Rodger Ward wins the 46th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Leader Cards 500 Special Watson-Offenhauser
- USAC Racing - Rodger Ward won the season championship
- Formula One – Graham Hill (Great Britain) wins World Drivers' Champion, driving for Ferrari.
- 24 hours of Le Mans – won by Olivier Gendebien / Phil Hill sharing a Ferrari 330LM
- Rally racing - the team of Erik Carlsson / Gunnar Haggbom win the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Saab 96
- Drag racing - Jack Chrisman wins Top Eliminator at the NHRA Nationals
Read more about this topic: 1962 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“The motor idles.
Over the immense upland
the pulse of their blossoming
thunders through us.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“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.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)