Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- Dale Jarrett won the Daytona 500
- NASCAR Championship - Terry Labonte
- Rusty Wallace wins the Suzuka NASCAR Thunder 100 at Suzuka City November 24, the first NASCAR event held in Japan.
- Indy Racing League - Scott Sharp and Buzz Calkins tie for the inaugural IRL championship
- Indianapolis 500 - Buddy Lazier
- CART - Jimmy Vasser won the season championship
- Formula One Championship - Damon Hill of Great Britain
- 24 hours of Le Mans – won by the team of Manuel Reuter / Davy Jones / Alexander Wurz driving a TWR-Porsche
- Rallying - Tommi Mäkinen won the World Rally Championship
- the team of Patrick Bernardini / Bernard Occelli won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Ford Escort RS Cosworth
- Drag racing - Kenny Bernstein won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship.
Read more about this topic: 1996 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words motor and/or racing:
“The motor idles.
Over the immense upland
the pulse of their blossoming
thunders through us.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“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)