1989 in Sports - Motor Racing

Motor Racing

  • Stock car racing –
    • Darrell Waltrip won the Daytona 500
    • NASCAR Championship – Rusty Wallace
  • CART Racing – season championship won by Emerson Fittipaldi
    • Indianapolis 500 – Emerson Fittipaldi
  • Formula One Championship – Alain Prost of France
  • 24 hours of Le Mans –
    • won by the team of Jochen Mass / Manuel Reuter / Stanley Dickens driving a Sauber-Mercedes
  • Rally racing – Miki Biasion 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 Integrale
  • Drag racing – Gary Ormsby won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship.

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