Motor Racing
- 30 May – Lee Wallard wins the 35th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser
- NASCAR Championship – Herb Thomas driving his own #92 Plymouth
- AAA Racing –
- Tony Bettenhausen wins the series championship
- Formula One – Juan Manuel Fangio (Argentina) is World Drivers' Champion in an Alfa Romeo
- 24 hours of Le Mans – Louis Rosier / Jean-Louis Rosier win sharing a Talbot-Lago
- Rally racing –
- Marcel Becquart / H. Secret wins the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Hotchkiss
- Drag racing – NHRA is founded by Wally Parks
Read more about this topic: 1951 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“This biplane is the shape of human flight.
Its name might better be First Motor Kite.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)