Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- Dale Earnhardt won the Daytona 500
- NASCAR Championship – Jeff Gordon
- NASCAR celebrates its 50th anniversary
- Indy Racing League –
- Indianapolis 500 – Eddie Cheever
- CART Racing – Alex Zanardi won the season championship
- Formula One Championship – Mika Häkkinen of Finland
- 24 hours of Le Mans – won by the team of Laurent Aïello / Allan McNish / Stéphane Ortelli driving a Porsche 911 GT–1
- Rallying – Tommi Mäkinen won the World Rally Championship
- the team of Carlos Sainz / Luís Moya won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Toyota Corolla WRC
- Drag racing – Gary Scelzi won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship.
Read more about this topic: 1998 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)