Motor Racing
- NASCAR Championship - Buck Baker in a Chrysler
- 30 May – Sam Hanks wins the 41st running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Belond Exhaust Special Salih-Offenhauser
- USAC Racing - Jimmy Bryan wins the season championship
- Formula One – Juan Manuel Fangio (Argentina) is five-time World Drivers' Champion, driving for Maserati. He is the first driver to win the championship five times. It will be 2002 before the feat is repeated.
- 24 hours of Le Mans:
- Ron Flockhart / Ivor Bueb win, sharing a Jaguar D-Type
- Rally racing:
- the team of Erik Carlsson (driver)/ Mario Pavoni (navigator) win the Finland Car Rally in a Saab 93
- Drag racing - George Dahir won the AHRA Top Fuel title at the Nationals
Read more about this topic: 1957 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“The motor idles.
Over the immense upland
the pulse of their blossoming
thunders through us.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“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)