Motor Racing
- May 26 – death during race practice of Alberto Ascari at Monaco
- May 30 – death during the Indy 500 of Bill Vukovich
- NASCAR Championship - Tim Flock in the #91 Hudson Hornet
- AAA Racing –
- 30 May – Bob Sweikert wins the 39th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the John Zink Special Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser. He also wins the season championship.
- Formula One – Juan Manuel Fangio (Argentina) is World Drivers' Champion, driving for Mercedes. He is the first driver to win the championship three times.
- 24 hours of Le Mans –
- Pierre Levegh killed along with more than 80 spectators in the worst auto racing accident in history
- Mike Hawthorn / Ivor Bueb win, sharing a Jaguar D-type
- Rally racing –
- the team of Per Malling / Gunnar Fadum won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Sunbeam-Talbot
- Drag racing - The NHRA staged its first "Nationals" in Great Bend, Kansas. Calvin Rice won the inaugural "Top Fuel" championship.
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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)
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