Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- NASCAR Championship - Terry Labonte
- Cale Yarborough won the Daytona 500
- Richard Petty won the 200th (and final) race of his career on July 4.
- CART Racing - Mario Andretti won the season championship
- Indianapolis 500 - Rick Mears
- Formula One Championship - Niki Lauda of Austria
- 24 hours of Le Mans –
- the team of Klaus Ludwig / Henri Pescarolo won, driving a Porsche 956
- Rally racing - Stig Blomqvist in an Audi won the World Rally Championship
- the team of Walter Röhrl / Christian Geistdörfer won the Monte Carlo Rally driving an Audi Quattro
- Drag racing - Joe Amato won the NHRA Top Fuel championship.
Read more about this topic: 1984 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“What shall we do with country quiet now?
A motor drones insanely in the blue
Like a bad bird in a dream.”
—Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)
“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)