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Racing legend Jim Hall establishes Chaparral Cars, a highly innovative team in the Can Am Series. Racing legend Caroll Shelby establishes Shelby Motors, bringing to racing the famous Cobra and Daytona. Formula 5000 is established based on F1, but using five liter engines instead of the three from Formula One. It is also sanctioned by the SCCA ...
The following is an overview of the events of 1960 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.
[citation needed] During the 1960s and early 1970s, the race was filmed and an edited highlight package aired the following weekend. In 1974, ABC began the first semi-live coverage (joined-in-progress) of the Daytona 500. Coverage was normally timed to begin when the race was halfway over.
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This list of 1960 motorsport champions is a list of national or international auto racing series with a Championship decided by the points or positions earned by a driver from multiple races. Some titles may be from single events.
The Ferrari 246 P F1 was a Formula One race car prototype used by Ferrari in 1960. [1] It was Ferrari's first mid-engined car. [2] It made only two World Championship appearances, with its best result being fifth place at the 1960 Italian Grand Prix.
The Ford GT40 is a high-performance mid-engined racing car originally designed and built for and by the Ford Motor Company to compete in 1960s European endurance racing.Its specific impetus was to best Scuderia Ferrari, which had won the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans race for six years running from 1960 to 1965.
Car and Track, a weekly auto racing show hosted by Bud Lindemann, recapped all of NASCAR's top-series races in the 1960s and 1970s in a weekly 30-minute syndicated show. The following table is a list of races from NASCAR's top three series that have been broadcast partially or in their entirety on television during the 1960s.