Motor Racing
- Indy Racing League
- February 22 – the bitter feud between the two major open-wheel racing series, the Indy Racing League and Champ Car, ends after 14 years with the two series agreeing to unify for the 2008 IndyCar Series season under the IRL banner
- Indianapolis 500 won by Scott Dixon
- Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first female to win an IndyCar race.
- Stock car racing
- 50th annual Daytona 500 at Daytona Beach, Florida, is won by Ryan Newman
- NASCAR – for the third straight season, Jimmie Johnson and the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports wins the Sprint Cup championship, a feat equalled only by Cale Yarborough from 1976 through 1978
Read more about this topic: 2008 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)