Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- NASCAR Championship - Darrell Waltrip
- Bobby Allison won the Daytona 500
- CART Racing - Rick Mears won the season championship
- Indianapolis 500 - Gordon Johncock
- Formula One Champion - Keke Rosberg of Finland
- 24 hours of Le Mans –
- won by the team of Jacky Ickx / Derek Bell driving a Porsche 956
- Rally racing - Walter Röhrl in an Opel won the World Rally Championship
- Walter Rohrl / Christian Geistdörfer won the Monte Carlo Rally driving an Opel Ascona 400
- Drag racing - Shirley Muldowney won the NHRA Top Fuel championship.
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“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)
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