Motor Racing
- Stock car racing –
- Jeff Gordon won the Daytona 500
- NASCAR Championship – Dale Jarrett
- Indy Racing League –
- Indianapolis 500 – Kenny Bräck
- CART Racing – Juan Pablo Montoya won the season championship
- Formula One Championship – Mika Häkkinen of Finland
- 24 hours of Le Mans – won by the team of Pierluigi Martini / Yannick Dalmas / Joachim Winkelhock driving a BMW V–12 LMR
- World Rally Championship – Tommi Mäkinen / Risto Mannisenmäki of Finland
- Drag racing – Tony Schumacher won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship.
- Formula Nippon – Tom Coronel of the Netherlands.
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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)