Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- NASCAR Championship - Richard Petty
- February 18 - Richard Petty won the Daytona 500 it was the first Daytona 500 to be televised flag-to-flag by CBS Sports
- CART Racing (replaced USAC): Rick Mears won the season championship
- May - Indianapolis 500 - Rick Mears
- Formula One Champion - Jody Scheckter of South Africa
- 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Klaus Ludwig / Bill Whittington / Don Whittington win driving a Porsche 935
- Rally racing - the team of Bernard Darniche / Alain Mahe win the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Lancia Stratos HF
- Drag racing –
- Rob Bruins won the NHRA Top Fuel championship.
- Don Garlits won Top Fuel at the World Finals
- Touring car racing - Peter Brock and Jim Richards won their second consecutive Bathurst 1000, driving a Holden Torana
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Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“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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