Motor Racing
- NASCAR Championship - Lee Petty in the #42 Plymouth
- USAC Racing
- 30 May – Jimmy Bryan wins the 42nd running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Belond AP Special Salih-Offenhauser
- Pat O'Connor is killed in a massive fifteen-car pileup on Lap One.
- Tony Bettenhausen wins the season championship
- 30 May – Jimmy Bryan wins the 42nd running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Belond AP Special Salih-Offenhauser
- Formula One – Mike Hawthorn (Great Britain) is World Drivers' Champion, driving for Ferrari.
- February 23 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time Formula One champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
- 24 hours of Le Mans – Olivier Gendebien / Phil Hill win, sharing a Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa
- Rally racing - the team of Guy Monraisse / Jacques Feret won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Renault
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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)