Comprehensive list of motorsports races
A1 Grand Prix
A1-GP is an open-wheel auto racing series. It is unique in its field in that competitors represent their nation as opposed to a constructor, which is traditional in most formula racing series including Formula One.
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Air Racing
Air racing is a sport that involves small airplanes and is practiced around the world. It is somewhat similar to auto racing; however, corporate sponsorship and broadcast media coverage occur at a much lower level than in auto racing.
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Autocross
Autocross is a form of motorsports that emphasizes safe, low-cost competition and active participation. In the United Kingdom, autocrosses are typically held on a grass or stubble surface. In fact the attraction is the challenge of driving quickly on challenging and difficult surfaces.
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Autograss
Autograss racing is Britain’s most popular form of amateur motor racing. It takes place at venues throughout England, Wales, Ireland, and Northern Ireland, and from 2006 at one venue in Scotland.
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Autotesting
Autotesting involves a series of tests, generally around traffic cones, to measure precision driving skill. The tests often include stopping with the front and rear wheels straddling a line, and always end stopping in a garage (usually marked out with cones). Sections of each test are usually completed in reverse. Cars involved can be standard road cars or ones specially built for autotest.
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Baja SAE
Baja SAE is an intercollegiate design competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Universities from all over the world design and build small off-road cars. The cars all have engines of the same specifications. As of 2002 the engine has been an unmodified Briggs & Stratton Intek 20 with a power output of approximately 7.5 kW(=10 bhp).
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Banger Racing
Banger racing or enduro racing is a tarmac or dirt track racing type of motorsport event popularised in Europe and especially Great Britain, but also on short tracks of the United States, in which drivers of old vehicles race against one another around a race track and the race is won in terms of the first car to the chequered flag, all the while (in Europe primarily) attempting to deliberately wreck the opposing vehicles. The race tracks are usually oval but on occasion are constructed in a figure eight design.
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Board Track Racing
Board track racing was a type of racing where the track had a surface of wood boards. The genre was popular in the United States in the early 20th century.
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Champ Car
Champ Car, an abbreviation of “Championship Car”, has been the name for a class and specification of cars used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades. It is also commonly used to refer to the Champ Car World Series, an international open-wheel championship based largely in North America and formerly known as Championship Auto Racing Teams, or CART.
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Crosskart
Crosskart is a type of kart racing that takes place on autocross, speedway, dirt, or snow tracks instead of on paved tracks.
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Demolition Derby
Demolition derby is a motor-sport usually presented at county fairs and festivals. They originated in North America and quickly spread to other western nations.
While rules vary from event to event, the typical demolition derby event consists of 10 or more drivers competing by deliberately ramming their vehicles into one another. The last driver whose vehicle is still operational is awarded the victory.
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Dirt Track Racing
Dirt track racing is a type of auto racing performed on oval tracks. It began in the United States before World War I and became widespread during the 1920s and 30s. Two different types of racecars predominated—open wheel racers in the Northeast and West and stock cars in the South. The open wheel racers were built for racing, and the stock cars were ordinary automobiles modified to varying degrees.
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Drag Racing
Drag racing is a sport in which cars race down a track with a set distance as fast as possible. Drag racing usually involves two cars racing each other over a set distance, usually 1/4 mile or 1/8mile. Although distances range from two hundred meters to one kilometer, the four-hundred meter (1/4mi) drag race is the most popular.
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Drag Boat Racing
Drag boat racing is a form of drag racing which takes place on water rather than land. As in drag racing, contests take place between two vehicles over a straight quarter mile (1320 feet) course but unlike drag racing on land the boats begin from a short rolling start rather than a standing start.
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Drifting
Drifting refers to a driving technique and to a sport based on the technique; this article deals primarily with the sport. A car is said to be drifting when the rear slip angle is greater than the front slip angle, and the front wheels are pointing in the opposite direction to the turn (e.g. car is turning left, wheels are pointed right), and the driver is controlling these factors.
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Endurance Racing
Endurance racing is a test of the durability of equipment used to race, and to a lesser extent, the drivers as well. The most famous automobile endurance race in sports car racing is the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a road racing event held annually in Le Mans, France. Rather than racing a set distance of miles or kilometers, the stated purpose is to drive the vehicle the longest possible distance over the course during the stated period of time.
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Enduro
Enduro is a form of motorcycle sport run on courses that are predominantly off-road. The main type of enduro event, and the format to which the world enduro championship is run, is a time-card enduro, whereby a number of stages are raced in a time trial against the clock.
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European Rallycross
Rallycross is a form of sprint style automobile racing, held on a closed mixed-surface racing circuit, with modified production or specially built road cars, similar to the World Rally Cars, although usually with about 200bhp stronger engines, due to eg. their 45mm turbo restrictors.
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FIA Autocross
In Europe, autocross is car racing on a race track with unpaved surface (dirt, gravel or soil). Cars compete against the clock, and start at the same time. An event is FIA European Championship for Autocross Drivers.
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Figure 8 Racing
Figure 8 racing is a form of racing that combines elements of oval racing, demolition derby, and road racing.
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Folkrace
Folkrace is a popular, inexpensive, and entry-level form of Swedish rallycross that originally came from Finland, where it was called jokamiesluokka. In Norway there is a similar motor sport called bilcross. The basic idea is similar to banger racing.
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Formula Libre
Formula Libre (also known as ‘Formule Libre’) is a form of automobile racing allowing a wide variety of types, ages and makes of purpose-built racing cars to compete “head to head”. This can make for some interesting matchups, and provides the opportunity for some compelling driving performances against superior machinery.
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Formula One
Formula One, abbreviated to F1, and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), motor sport’s world governing body.
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Formula Ford
Formula Ford is a single seater, open wheel class in motorsport which exists in some form in many countries around the world. It is an entry-level series to motor racing, in which in the past many drivers aspired to one day reach Formula One (today karting is more likely to be a young driver’s entry to serious formula car racing).
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Freestyle Motocross
Freestyle Motocross (also known as FMX) is a variation on the sport of motocross in which motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with jumps and stunts. The two main types of freestyle events are: Big Air (also known as Best Trick), in which each rider gets three jumps — usually covering more than 60 feet and Freestyle Motocross, the older of the two disciplines. Riders perform two routines, lasting between 90 seconds and 14 minutes, on a course consisting of multiple jumps of varying lengths and angles
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Gleichmäßigkeitsprüfung
A Gleichmäßigkeitsprüfung (abbrev. GLP, German for regularity test) is a motorsport event where precise timing is winning, not outright speed. Mainly Classic cars events like the modern Mille Miglia are held as GLPs.
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GP2 Series
GP2 Series is a form of motor racing introduced in 2005 following the discontinuation of the long-term Formula One ‘feeder’ sport, Formula 3000. The format was conceived by Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore.
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Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing
Grand Prix motorcycle racing refers to the premier category of motorcycle road racing, currently divided into three distinct classes: 125 cc, 250 cc and MotoGP
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Gymkhana
Gymkhana is a type of motorsport practiced in Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom similar to autocross but with even slower speeds and tighter turns. The courses are often very complex and memorizing the course is a significant part of achieving a fast time.
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Hydroplane Racing
Hydroplane racing (also known as hydro racing) is a sport involving racing hydroplanes on lakes and rivers. It is a popular spectator sport in several countries (at least the U. S., Canada, Australia and Central Europe), and one of the more commercialized sports.
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High Performance Drivers Education
The High Performance Drivers Education (HPDE) refers to driving schools held on dedicated race tracks designed to teach drivers proper high speed driving techniques.
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Hillclimbing
Hillclimbing (also known as hill climbing, speed hillclimbing or speed hill climbing) is a branch of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock to complete an uphill course.
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Hot Rods
Hot rods are cars which have been customized for performance, and/or appearance. A “Hot Rod” referred to the cam inside the engine. It was adopted as the name of a car that had been “hopped up” by modifying the cam to achieve higher performance.
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Indy Racing League
The Indy Racing League, better known as IRL, is the sanctioning body of a predominantly American based open-wheel racing series. Its centerpiece is the Indianapolis 500.
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Ice Racing
Ice racing is a form of motor racing. It utilizes cars, motorcycles, snowmobiles, All-terrain vehicles, or other motorized vehicles. Ice racing takes place on frozen lakes or rivers, or on carefully groomed frozen lots. As cold weather is a requirement for natural ice, it is usually found at higher latitudes in Canada, the northern United States, and in northern Europe. Tracks in North America are typically 1/4 mile long.
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Jet Sprint Boat Racing
Jet Sprint Boat racing is a form of racing sport in which speed boats, usually carrying a crew of two, powered by water jet propulsion rather than by conventional propellers, race around watercourses consisting of a number of interconnected channels 3 to 5 meters wide with a water depth of 1 meter.
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Kart racing
Kart racing or Karting is a variant of open-wheeler motor sport with simple, small four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts depending on the design.
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Lawnmower Racing
Lawn mower racing is a form of motorsport where competitors race modified lawn mowers, usually of the ride-on or self-propelled variety. Original mower engines are retained but blades are removed for safety.
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Midget Car Racing
Midget cars are very small race cars with a very high power-to-weight ratios and typically using four-cylinder engines.
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Motocross
Motocross (often shortened to MX or MotoX) is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits.
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Motorkhana
Motorkhana is a low-cost form of motorsport, unique to Australia and New Zealand but similar to autotesting in the UK and Ireland and somewhat similar to autocross in the US.
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Motorcycle Grasstrack
Motorcycle Grasstrack racing takes place on a flat track consisting of two straights and two bends usually constructed in a field. It is one of the oldest types of motorcycle sports in the UK with the first meetings having taken place in the 1920’s.
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Motorcycle Trials
Motorcycle trials, also termed observed trials, is a non-speed event on specialized motorcycles. The sport is most popular in the UK and Spain, though there are participants around the globe.
Trial motorcycles are distinctive in that they are extremely lightweight, lack seating (they’re designed to be ridden standing up) and have suspension travel that is short, relative to a motocross or enduro motorcycle.
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Mud Bogging
Mud bogging, also known as mud racing, mud running and mud drags, is a form of off-road motorsport popular in the United States in which the goal is to drive a vehicle through a pit of mud of a set length. Winners are determined by the distance traveled through the pit or, if several vehicles are able to travel the entire length, the time taken to traverse the pit. Typically, vehicles competing in mud bogs are four-wheel drives.
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NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States.
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Off-Road Racing
Off-road racing is a format of racing where various classes of specially modified vehicles (including cars, trucks, motorcycles, and buggies) compete in races through off-road environments.
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Offshore Powerboat Racing
Offshore powerboat racing is racing by large, ocean-going powerboats, typically point-to-point racing.
Probably the largest, most powerful racing machines of all, the extreme expense of the boats and the fuel required to participate make it an expensive and elite sport.
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Pocketbike Racing
Pocketbike racing, also known as Minimoto or Mini GP racing, is a category of racing where miniature racing motorcycles (known as pocketbikes or minimoto) are raced around kart tracks.
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Production Bike Racing
Production Bike Racing is a form of Motorcycle sport that involves racing motorcycles virtually unmodified from those that can be bought in shops and then ridden on public highways.
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Production Car racing
Production car racing includes all categories of auto racing where unmodified (or very lightly modified) cars race each other. Many production racing categories are based around particular makes of cars - for instance, there are many Porsche racing series around the world. They run in major races such as the Nurburgring 24 Hour, Bathurst 12 Hour & Malaysian 12 hour.
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Postie Bike Racing
Postie Bike Racing is a form of Motorcycle sport that use Honda CT 110 use by Australia Post as a delivery bike. In the Enduro races you can have a partner if you wish and change over as often as you like or you can go it alone. The winner is the team who has done the most laps at the end of. then ridden on public highways.
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Quarter Midget Racing
Quarter Midget racing is a form of racing. The cars are approximately one quarter (1/4) the size of full size midget race cars. The drivers are typically restricted to age 5 to 16. Tracks are typically banked ovals one-twentieth of a mile long, and have a surface of dirt, concrete, or asphalt.
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Rallycross
Rallycross is a form of sprint style automobile racing, held on a closed mixed-surface racing circuit, with modified production or specially built road cars, similar to the World Rally Cars, although usually with about 200bhp stronger engines, due to eg. their 45mm turbo restrictors.
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Rally racing
Rallying is a form of motor competition that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars. This motorsport is distinguished by running not on a circuit, but instead in a point-to-point format in which participants and their co-drivers drive between set control points (stages), leaving at regular intervals from one or more start points.
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Road Hogs
Road hogs, also known as Detroit Iron, is an amateur style of stock car racing, popular at race tracks in the Midwestern United States. Vehicles typical in this division include sedans and luxury cars of the 1970s, weighing between four and five thousand pounds. They are typically found in junkyards, with less than $1,000 being invested by the race teams. Road Hog racing can take place or either dirt or paved tracks.
SCCA RallyCross
RallyCross is a type of car competition in the U.S., sponsored by the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). It is a timed event that involves solo driving on grass or dirt and can be considered “autocross on the dirt.”
Sidecarcross
Sidecar-Cross racing, also known as Sidecar Motocross, is very similar to regular, “solo” motocross but with a different type of motorcycle chassis, and with a team of two people riding together instead of one, a “driver” and a “passenger”.
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Sidecar TT
The Sidecar TT is a motorcycle sidecar road race that takes place during the Isle of Man TT festival; an annual event at the end of May and beginning of June. Between 1954 and 1976 this race was part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing season.
Speedway
Motorcycle speedway, normally referred to as Speedway, is a motorcycle sport that involves usually 4 and sometimes up to 6 riders competing over 4 laps. A variant of Track racing, Speedway is administered internationally by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).
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Sprint car racing
Sprint cars, high-powered race cars designed primarily for the purpose of running on short dirt or paved tracks. Sprint car racing is most popular in the United States, but series also operate in Australia and New Zealand.
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Stock car racing
Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States and Great Britain held largely on oval rings of between approximately a quarter-mile and 2.66 miles (about 0.4 to 4.2 kilometres) in length, but also raced occasionally on road courses.
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Superbike racing
Superbike racing is a category of motorcycle racing that employs modified production motorcycles.
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Supercross
Supercross is a cycle racing sport involving racing specialized high performance off-road motorcycles on man made dirt tracks consisting of steep jumps and obstacles. Professional Supercross contest races are held almost exclusively within professional baseball and football stadiums.
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Supermoto Supermotard
Supermoto (also called Supermotard due to its strong foothold in France) is a cross-over of motocross and road racing. Races are commonly held on road racing tracks with an off-road section in the infield; approximately 70% tarmac and 30% dirt.
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Superside
Superside is the name of the FIM World Sidecar Championship. The name was coined when the sidecars moved from being support events for Grand Prix Motorcycles to being support events for the World Superbike Championship.
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Touring car racing
Touring car racing is a general term for a number of distinct auto racing competitions in heavily-modified street cars. It is notably popular in Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, and Australia.
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Truck racing
Truck racing is a form of motor racing that runs race modified versions of heavy trucks on racing circuits. This type of racing is popular in Europe.
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