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1950s. 1960s in motorsport. 1970s: Other topics: N/A This article documents the events that occurred in motorsports in the 1960s. United States The ...
1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. 1960s in motorsport by country (29 ...
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.
As Porsche only had small capacity road and racing cars in the 1950s and 1960s, they scored many wins in their classes, and occasionally also overall victories against bigger cars, most notably winning the Targa Florio in 1956, 1959, 1960, 1964, and every year from 1966 to 1970 in prototypes that lacked horsepower relative to the competition, but which made up for that, with reliability, low ...
Through the 1960s, as superspeedways were built and old dirt tracks were paved, the number of dirt races was reduced. [ 17 ] A breed of powerful hybrids appeared in the 1950s and 1960s and raced on both sides of the Atlantic, featuring European chassis and large American engines – from the early Allard cars via hybrids, such as Lotus 19s ...
Chaparral Cars was a pioneering American automobile racing team and race car developer that engineered, built, and raced cars from 1963 through 1970. Founded in 1962 by American Formula One racers Hap Sharp and Jim Hall, it was named after the roadrunner, a fast-running ground cuckoo also known as a chaparral bird.
From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. 0–9. 1960 in American motorsport (1 ...