Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- NASCAR Championship - Darrell Waltrip
- Richard Petty won the Daytona 500
- CART Racing - Rick Mears won the season championship
- May 25 - Indianapolis 500 - Bobby Unser
- Formula One Champion - Nelson Piquet of Brazil
- 24 hours of Le Mans –
- teammates Jacky Ickx / Derek Bell won, driving a Porsche 936
- Rally racing - Ari Vatanen in a Ford won the World Rally Championship
- the team of Jean Ragnotti / Jean-Marc Andrie won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Renault 5 Turbo
- Drag racing – Gary Beck won "Top Fuel" at the NHRA World Finals
Read more about this topic: 1981 In Sports
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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