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Coca-Cola 600
Coca-Cola 600 (also World 600): NASCAR Cup Series' longest race, 600 miles over 400 laps at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, NC, run Memorial Day weekend since 1960 with the 600 Miles of Remembrance military tribute.
Cole Custer
Cole Custer (born 1998, Ladera Ranch, California) is a NASCAR Cup Series driver of the No. 41 Haas Factory Team Chevrolet, 2023 O'Reilly/Xfinity champion, 2020 Cup Rookie of the Year, and Kentucky Speedway 2020 winner, returning for 2027.
Cole Davies
Cole Davies (born 2007, Waitoki, New Zealand), New Zealand Supercross/Motocross rider for Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing; 2024 Supercross Futures champion, 2025 250SX West Rookie of the Year, and 2026 250SX East and 250MX Pro Motocross double champion.
Colin Chapman
Colin Chapman (1928–1982), British engineer and founder of Lotus Engineering and Team Lotus; won seven F1 constructors' and six drivers' titles and the Indy 500; pioneered the monocoque Lotus 25, ground-effect Lotus 79, and F1 sponsorship; died amid the DeLorean affair.
Colin McRae
Colin McRae (Colin Steele McRae) was a Scottish rally driver who won the 1995 World Rally Championship with Subaru, the first British champion, dying in a helicopter crash in 2007.
Colin Pratt
Colin George Pratt (1938–2021), English speedway rider, manager and promoter; 1967 World Finalist, England's 1989 World Team Cup joint manager, Coventry Bees co-promoter, first British Speedway Hall of Fame inductee.
Colton Herta
Colton Herta (born 2000, Valencia, California), American racing driver, son of Bryan Herta; nine-time IndyCar winner, youngest IndyCar race winner at 18, 2024 runner-up; 2026 Cadillac F1 test driver racing F2 with Hitech for super licence points.
Combativity award in the Tour de France
Combativity award in the Tour de France (prix de la combativité): daily prize for the most aggressive rider, marked by a red number, introduced 1952; super-combativity prize (€20,000) chosen by jury, won by Carapaz in 2026.
Connie Carpenter Phinney
Connie Carpenter Phinney (Helen Constance Carpenter-Phinney), American cyclist and former speed skater born 1957 in Madison, Wisconsin; won the first Olympic women's cycling road race at Los Angeles 1984, beating Rebecca Twigg by inches.
Connor Fields
Connor Fields is a retired American BMX racer from Las Vegas who won Olympic gold at Rio 2016, the first American man to win the discipline.
Conor Dunne
Conor Dunne (born 1992) is a retired Irish road cyclist, 6'8" and nicknamed El Alto, who rode for An Post-Chainreaction, Aqua Blue Sport, and Israel Cycling Academy, won the 2018 Irish road title, and finished last at the 2017 Vuelta.
Conor Leahy
Conor Leahy (born 1999, Stirling, Western Australia) is an Australian track and road cyclist, Olympic team pursuit gold medallist at Paris 2024 with a 3:40.730 world record; distinct from the Irish high jumper Con Leahy (1876–1921).
Corey Day
Corey Day (born 2005), from Clovis, California, is a Hendrick Motorsports driver of the No. 17 Chevrolet in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, a former sprint car and High Limit Racing star, Chili Bowl Rookie of the Year, and youngest Turkey Night Grand Prix winner.
Coronado Street Course
Coronado Street Course, officially the Qualcomm Circuit: a 16-turn, 3.4-mile temporary NASCAR street circuit at Naval Base Coronado, San Diego, first raced June 2026, the first NASCAR event on an active military base.
Cosworth DFV
Cosworth DFV (Double Four Valve), 3.0-litre Ford-funded V8 racing engine by Cosworth; debuted 1967 Dutch GP with Jim Clark's Lotus 49; 155 F1 wins, 12 drivers' titles, 1967-1983; DFX won ten straight Indy 500s.
COTA Racing & Entertainment LLC (Circuit of the Americas)
COTA Racing & Entertainment LLC is an Austin, Texas motorsport company that manages the Circuit of the Americas, host of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix.
Courtney Force
Courtney Force, also known as Courtney Force-Rahal, is an American retired drag racer who won 12 NHRA Funny Car events from 2012 to 2018, daughter of 16-time champion John Force.
Coy Gibbs
Coy Randall Gibbs (1972-2022), American NASCAR executive and former driver, vice chairman and COO of Joe Gibbs Racing, JGRMX founder, Stanford linebacker, father of Ty Gibbs; died in his sleep at 49.
Craig Breen
Craig Breen (1990–2023), Irish WRC rally driver from Waterford; 2011 WRC Academy and 2012 SWRC champion; 82 WRC starts, nine podiums, no wins for Citroën, Ford, Hyundai; died in Croatian testing accident.
Crédit Agricole (cycling team)
Crédit Agricole (CA) was a French professional cycling team sponsored by the bank from 1998 to 2008, successor to Peugeot, Z, and GAN; managed by Roger Legeay, it won Tour stages and the green jersey before folding for lack of a replacement sponsor.
Cristiano da Matta
Cristiano Monteiro da Matta (born 1973, Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian racing driver, 2002 CART champion with Newman/Haas (7 wins, 7 poles), Toyota F1 driver 2003–2004, and 1998 Indy Lights champion.
Cross-country cycling
Cross-country cycling is a mountain-biking discipline covering weeks to months, best known for the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail from Astoria, Oregon, to Yorktown, Virginia, opened as Bikecentennial in 1976.
Cupra Racing
Cupra Racing, formerly SEAT Sport (founded 1985), is the motorsport division of the Spanish carmaker Cupra, based at Martorell, Spain, and known for TCR touring cars and electric racing.
Cycle racing in Africa
Cycle racing in Africa is road cycling built on an Eritrean–Ethiopian talent pipeline; Biniam Girmay won a Tour de France stage and the green jersey in 2024.
Cycle racing in Belgium
Cycle racing in Belgium: competitive cycling in a country hosting two Monuments, the Tour of Flanders (1913) and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, defined by steep cobbled climbs like the Koppenberg, governed by Belgian Cycling, with a dense professional and amateur kermis racing scene.
Cycle racing in Japan
Cycle racing in Japan is dominated by keirin, a state-licensed track betting sport begun in 1948 that took ¥1.5 trillion in bets in 2025, while road racing stays minor.
Cycle racing in Kazakhstan
Cycle racing in Kazakhstan is the sport of competitive road cycling in Kazakhstan, from its 1914 beginnings through the Soviet system to the state-backed Astana team.
Cycle racing in Oceania
Cycle racing in Oceania is the road and track racing scene of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands, with racing cultures dating to the 1880s and 1890s.
Cycle racing in the Americas
Cycle racing in the Americas is the organized road cycling sport across North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean, run under the Pan American Cycling Confederation (COPACI).
Cycle sport
Cycle sport: competitive cycling across ten UCI disciplines (road, track, mountain bike, BMX, cyclo-cross, trials, indoor, esports, gravel). Olympic since 1896; governed by the UCI, founded 1900, based in Aigle, Switzerland.