Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- Bill Elliott won the Daytona 500
- NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt
- CART Racing - Bobby Rahal won the season championship
- Indianapolis 500 - Al Unser Sr.
- Formula One Championship - Nelson Piquet of Brazil
- 24 hours of Le Mans – won by the team of Derek Bell / Hans-Joachim Stuck / Al Holbert driving a Porsche 962C
- Rally racing - Juha Kankkunen in a Lancia won the World Rally Championship
- the team of Miki Biasion / Tiziano Siviero won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Lancia Delta HF 4x4
- Drag racing –
- Dick LaHaie won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship.
- Darrell Gwynn won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals
- Touring car racing –
- Steve Soper and Pierre Dieudonné won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race in Australia, only to have their Ford Sierra (as well that of second-place team-mates Klaus Ludwig and Klaus Niedzwiedz) disqualified for illegal wheel arches. Peter Brock, David Parsons and Peter McLeod in a Holden Commodore, who finished third, were awarded the victory. It was Brock's 9th and final Bathurst win.
- That disqualification changed the result of the one-off Group A World Touring Car Championship, taking it from Ludwig and Niedzwiedz and giving it to Roberto Ravaglia who drove a BMW M3 for Schnitzer Motorsport.
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