Motor Racing
- July 27 – death of Moisés Solana, Mexican race car driver in a racing accident
- Stock car racing –
- NASCAR Championship
- February 23 – LeeRoy Yarbrough wins the Daytona 500 in the #98 Mercury
- May 25 – LeeRoy Yarbrough wins the World 600 in the #98 Mercury
- David Pearson (#17) wins the driving championship. It is Pearson's third and final title, tied with Lee Petty.
- USAC Racing
- 30 May – Mario Andretti wins the 54th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the STP Oil Treatment Special Hawk–Cosworth
- Mario Andretti wins the season championship
- Formula One – Jackie Stewart (Scotland) wins World Drivers' Champion, driving a Matra MS10–Cosworth for Ken Tyrrell.
- 24 hours of Le Mans – Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver win, sharing a Ford GT-40
- Rally racing - the team of Björn Waldegård / Lars Helmer win the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Porsche 911S
- Drag racing –
- Don Prudhomme wins the NHRA's Top Fuel Funny Car championship
- Steve Carbone wins Top Fuel at the NHRA World Finals
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Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“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.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)