Motor Racing
Grand Prix racing
- 14 April — the 1st Monaco Grand Prix is run at Monte Carlo. The winner is William Grover-Williams (Great Britain) driving a Bugatti T35B in 3:56:11.0 over 318 km (198 mi) (100 laps).
- 30 June — the 15th French Grand Prix, organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF), is run at Circuit de la Sarthe, near Le Mans, over 604.58 km (375.67 mi) (37 laps). The winner is William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti T35B in 4:33:01.2. The race is retrospectively referred to as the XXIII Grand Prix de l'ACF.
Indianapolis 500
- 30 May — 17th running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is won by Ray Keech in the Simplex Piston Ring Special Miller.
Le Mans 24 hours
- The 7th Le Mans 24 hours race is won by Woolf Barnato (Great Britain) and Henry Birkin (Great Britain) driving a Bentley Speed Six over 174 laps 2,843.83 km (1,767.07 mi).
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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)