Motor Racing
- The first 24 hours of Le Mans is held since the beginning of World War II. Luigi Chinetti and Lord Seldson win the race in a Ferrari 166M.
- 30 May – Bill Holland wins the 33nd running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Blue Crown Spark Plug Special Deidt-Offenhauser
- The inaugural NASCAR Strictly Stock season takes place. Robert "Red" Byron, driving the #22 Oldsmobile for Raymond Parks, is the series' first champion.
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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)