Motor Racing
- 2 June – Bruce McLaren, race car driver and founder of Team McLaren, killed in a testing wreck at Goodwood
- 5 September – Formula One World Drivers' Championship points leader Jochen Rindt (Austria) in killed in practice at Monza, driving a Lotus 72–Cosworth. He remains the only posthumous world champion.
- Stock car racing
- February 22 – Pete Hamilton wins the Daytona 500 in the #40 Plymouth for Petty Enterprises
- May 24 – Dunkiny Allison wins the World 500 in the Ford
- NASCAR Championship – Bobby Isaac
- USAC Racing
- 30 May – Al Unser, Sr. wins the 54th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Johnny Lightning Special Colt–Ford. It is Unser's first of four victories.
- Al Unser, Sr. won the season drivers' championship
- 24 hours of Le Mans – Hans Herrmann / Richard Attwood win, sharing a Porsche 917
- Rally racing – the team of Björn Waldegård / Lars Helmer win the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Porsche 911S.
- Drag racing –
- NHRA inaugurates the Supernationals.
- Rick Ramsey wins Top Fuel.
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“We disparage reason.
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)
“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)