Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- Dale Earnhardt won the Daytona 500
- NASCAR Championship – Jeff Gordon
- NASCAR celebrates its 50th anniversary
- Indy Racing League –
- Indianapolis 500 – Eddie Cheever
- CART Racing – Alex Zanardi won the season championship
- Formula One Championship – Mika Häkkinen of Finland
- 24 hours of Le Mans – won by the team of Laurent Aïello / Allan McNish / Stéphane Ortelli driving a Porsche 911 GT–1
- Rallying – Tommi Mäkinen won the World Rally Championship
- the team of Carlos Sainz / Luís Moya won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Toyota Corolla WRC
- Drag racing – Gary Scelzi won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship.
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Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“We disparage reason.
But all the time its what were most concerned with.
Theres will as motor and theres will as brakes.
Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“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 dont get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats 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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