Motor Racing
- April 7 – former Formula One World Drivers' Champion Jim Clark dies driver after a crash in a practice at Hockenheim
- NASCAR
- February 25 – Cale Yarborough wins the Daytona 500 in the #21 Wood Brothers Mercury
- May 26 – Buddy Baker wins the World 600 in the #6 Dodge
- USAC
- May 30 – Bobby Unser wins the 51st running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Rislone/Leader Cards Special All American Racers Eagle-Offenhauser
- September 28 – Pedro Rodríguez and Lucien Bianchi win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
- November 3 - Formula One Season finishes with Graham Hill winning the Drivers Championship and Lotus the Constructors Championship.
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“What shall we do with country quiet now?
A motor drones insanely in the blue
Like a bad bird in a dream.”
—Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
“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)
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