Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- NASCAR Championship - Bobby Allison
- Cale Yarborough won the Daytona 500
- CART Racing - Al Unser won the season championship
- Indianapolis 500 - Tom Sneva
- Formula One Championship - Nelson Piquet of Brazil
- 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Vern Schuppan / Al Holbert / Hurley Haywood won, driving a Porsche 956
- Rally racing - Hannu Mikkola in an Audi won the World Rally Championship
- the team of Walter Röhrl /Christian Geistdörfer won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Lancia 037
- Drag racing - Gary Beck won the NHRA Top Fuel championship.
- Touring car racing –
- Peter Brock and Larry Perkins successfully defended their Bathurst 1000 title in Australia; they and co-driver John Harvey won the race in a Holden Commodore. It was Brock's 7th and Perkins' 2nd Bathurst win.
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