Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- Richard Petty wins the Daytona 500 in the #43 Plymouth
- Marvin Panch wins the World 600 in the #20 Wood Brothers Ford
- NASCAR Championship - David Pearson (#3, Dodge)
- USAC Racing
- 30 May – Graham Hill wins the 51st running of the Indianapolis 500 in the American Red Ball Special Lola-Cosworth
- Mario Andretti wins the season championship
- Formula One – J. A. Brabham (Australia) wins World Drivers' Champion, driving an MRD-Repco. He is the only driver to win a championship in a car of his own team.
- 24 hours of Le Mans – Bruce McLaren / Chris Amon win, sharing Ford GT-40 Mk.II
- Rally racing - the team of Pauli Toivonen / Ensio Mikander win the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Citroën DS. However, the result was highly controversial, with the top finishers (including the BMC Mini Cooper S and Ford Cortina) disqualified on the dubious basis of their quartz-iodide single filament bulbs being illegal. It allows Citröen, who had made the necessary changes to their lighting systems just before the end of the event, to step up and take the winning slot.
- Drag racing - Pete Robinson wins the NHRA Top Fuel World Championship.
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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)