Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- Ward Burton wins the Daytona 500
- NASCAR Championship – Tony Stewart
- Indy Racing League – Sam Hornish Jr. wins the season championship.
- Indianapolis 500 – Hélio Castroneves
- CART Racing – Cristiano da Matta wins the season championship.
- Formula One Championship – Michael Schumacher of Germany
- 24 hours of Le Mans won by the team of Frank Biela, Tom Kristensen, and Emanuele Pirro driving an Audi R8.
- V8 Supercar
- Bathurst 1000 won by Mark Skaife and Jim Richards.
- Championship won by Mark Skaife, from Greg Murphy and Marcos Ambrose.
- Rally racing –
- the team of Tommi Mäkinen / Kaj Lindstrom wins the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Subaru Impreza WRC
- Marcus Grönholm of Finland wins the World Rally Championship.
- Drag racing – Larry Dixon Jr. wins the NHRA "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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