Motor Racing
- 30 May – Johnnie Parsons wins the 34th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Wynn's Friction Special Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser
- NASCAR Championship – Bill Rexford
- AAA Racing –
- Henry Banks won the series championship
- Formula One – The first World Drivers' Championship under FIA Formula A (Formula One) open-wheel racing rules is contested.
- 13 May—the British Grand Prix at Silverstone is the first event of the new World Drivers' Championship. It is won by Giuseppe Farina in an Alfa Romeo 158 Alfetta. Farina would go on to become the first FIA World Champion.
- Rally racing –
- M. Becquart/H. Secret won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Hotchkiss
- Drag racing – the first commercial drag strip, the Santa Ana Drags, begins at Orange County Airport (now John Wayne Airport) in Santa Ana, in Southern California. Admission is 50 cents; or 75 cents if the ticket holder wants to watch the mechanics work. (This special access becomes known as a pit pass.)
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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)