1992 in Sports - Motor Racing

Motor Racing

  • Stock car racing –
    • Davey Allison won the Daytona 500
    • NASCAR Championship - Alan Kulwicki
  • CART Racing - season championship won by Bobby Rahal
    • Indianapolis 500 - Al Unser, Jr.
  • Formula One Championship –
    • Nigel Mansell of Great Britain
    • Giovanna Amati the last women to appear on the entry list for a Formula One Grand Prix to date.
  • 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Derek Warwick / Yannick Dalmas / Mark Blundell won, driving a Peugeot 905
  • Rally racing - Carlos Sainz in a Toyota Celica won the World Rally Championship
    • the team of Didier Auriol / Bernard Occelli won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Lancia Delta Integrale HF
  • Drag racing - Joe Amato won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship.
  • Touring car racing –
    • Jim Richards and Mark Skaife won a rain-shortened Tooheys 1000 in Australia, driving a Nissan Skyline GT-R. The win was controversial; Richards crashed out while leading on lap 144, during which the race was red-flagged. However, the race was called complete after 143 laps giving Richards the win, and not to crowd favourite Dick Johnson (who took the lead following Richards' crash). Richards, unpopular with the crowd for driving a Japanese car, was booed on the dais as he received his trophy, prompting him to infamously utter into the microphone, "you're a pack of arseholes."
  • International Race of Champions - Ricky Rudd
    • IROC is an annual racing series held since the 1970s, ending in 2006, between drivers of Indy, CART, F1, World of Outlaws, and others with good enough credentials to participate. It involves the best of each series, all competing in perfectly identical cars, showing who really is the best, using aspects of all the major series.

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