Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- February 15: David Pearson won the Daytona 500 in a memorable last-lap duel with Richard Petty
- NASCAR Winston Cup Championship – Cale Yarborough
- Indianapolis 500 – Johnny Rutherford in a rain-shortened 255-mile event.
- USAC Racing – Gordon Johncock won the season championship
- Formula One Championship –
- James Hunt of Britain won the World Driving Championship
- Niki Lauda's famous accident occurred during the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring.
- 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Jacky Ickx / Gijs van Lennep won, driving a Porsche 936
- Rally racing – the team of Sandro Munari / Mario Manucci won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Lancia Stratos HF
- Drag racing – Shirley Muldowney won "Top Fuel" at the NHRA World Finals
- Touring car racing – Bob Morris and John Fitzpatrick won the Bathurst 1000, driving a Holden Torana
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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)