Motor Racing
Grand Prix racing
- 16 July — the 8th French Grand Prix, organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF), is run at Strasbourg over 802.88 km (13.38 km x 60 laps). The winner is Felice Nazzaro (Italy) driving a Fiat 804 in 6:17:17.0. The race is retrospectively referred to as the XVI Grand Prix de l´ACF.
- 10 September — the 2nd Italian Grand Prix is run at Autodromo Nazionale Monza over 800.00 km (10.00 km x 80 laps). The winner is Pietro Bordino (Italy) driving a Fiat 804 in 5:43:13. The race is officially titled the II Gran Premio d'Italia.
Indianapolis 500
- 30 May — 10th running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is won by Jimmy Murphy (USA) in a Duesenberg.
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Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“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)
“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 don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s 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)