1963 in Sports - Motor Racing

Motor Racing

  • Stock car racing
    • Tiny Lund wins the Daytona 500 in the #21 Ford
    • NASCAR Championship – Joe Weatherly in the #8 Pontiac (for Bud Moore
  • USAC Racing
    • 30 May – Parnelli Jones wins the 47th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Agajanian/Willard Battery Special Watson-Offenhauser
    • A.J. Foyt wins the season championship
  • Formula One – Jim Clark (Great Britain) wins World Drivers' Champion, driving a Lotus 25-Climax.
  • 24 hours of Le Mans – Ludovico Scarfiotti / Lorenzo Bandini win, sharing a Ferrari 250P
  • Rally racing – the team of Erik Carlsson / Gunnar Palm win the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Saab 96
  • Drag racing – Bobby Vodnik wins Top Fuel at the NHRA Nationals
  • 5 September – at Bonneville, Craig Breedlove sets a new land speed record at 407.447 mph (655.722 km/h) in Spirit of America. The controversial jet-propelled three-wheeler's record is not recognized by FIA, because it is neither wheel-driven nor four-wheeled; FIM quickly accepts the record, & the public does not recognize the distinction.

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Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:

    “This biplane is the shape of human flight.
    Its name might better be First Motor Kite.”
    —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.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)