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Mick Schumacher
Mick Schumacher (born 1999), son of Michael Schumacher, German driver; 2018 F3 and 2020 F2 champion, Haas F1 2021-2022, Alpine WEC 2024-2025, IndyCar with Rahal Letterman Lanigan from 2026.
Mickey Thompson
Mickey Thompson (Marion Lee Thompson, 1928–1988), American racing driver, builder, and promoter; first American over 400 mph at Bonneville in Challenger I, Indy 500 rear-engine pioneer, founder of SCORE International and Mickey Thompson Tires; murdered with wife Trudy in 1988.
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a permanent road course in Lexington, Ohio, opened 1962 by Les Griebling; 2.4-mile/15-turn and 2.258-mile/13-turn layouts, FIA Grade Two, home of the Honda Indy 200.
Middle East Rally Championship
FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC), regional rally series founded 1984 after the Gulf Rally Championship. Six 2026 rounds (Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia); Nasser Al-Attiyah holds records with 91 wins and 20 titles.
Midget car racing
Midget car racing, also called midget auto racing, is small open-wheel oval-track racing in ~900 lb, 70-inch-wheelbase wingless cars. Born in California 1933 under MARA; USAC National Midget Championship dates to 1956.
Miguel Induráin
Miguel Induráin (Miguelón, Big Mig), Spanish cyclist born 1964 in Villava, Navarre; won five consecutive Tours de France 1991-95, the Giro 1992-93, the 1994 Hour Record (53.040 km), 1995 ITT world title, and 1996 Olympic time-trial gold.
Miguel Martinez
Miguel Martinez, French cross-country mountain biker born 1976 in Fourchambault; bronze at Atlanta 1996, Olympic gold and world title in 2000, later road pro with Mapei and Phonak; son of 1978 polka dot jersey winner Mariano Martinez, father of Lenny Martinez.
Mika Häkkinen
Mika Häkkinen is a Finnish racing driver who won the Formula 1 World Championship in 1998 and 1999 with McLaren, taking 20 Grand Prix wins.
Mike Hailwood
Mike Hailwood (Mike the Bike), English racer born 2 April 1940, won nine motorcycle world titles (500cc, 350cc, 250cc) and 14 Isle of Man TT races, including the 1978 comeback on a Ducati 900SS; later an F1 driver, George Medal recipient, killed in a 1981 road accident.
Mike Hawthorn
Mike Hawthorn (John Michael Hawthorn, 1929–1959), British Formula 1 driver and Ferrari racer; first British World Champion, 1958, beating Stirling Moss 42–41; died on the Guildford bypass.
Mike Skinner (racing driver)
Mike Skinner (born 1957, Ontario, California) is an American NASCAR driver, 'The Gun Slinger', who won the inaugural 1995 Truck Series championship with 8 wins for Richard Childress Racing and made 286 winless Cup starts.
Mike Turtur
Mike Turtur (Michael Colin Turtur, born 1958, Adelaide) is an Australian track cyclist and administrator: 1984 Olympic 4000m team pursuit gold with a broken wrist, Brisbane 1982 double Commonwealth gold, and inaugural Tour Down Under race director 1999-2020.
Mikhail Ignatyev
Mikhail Ignatyev (Михаил Борисович Игнатьев), Russian track and road cyclist born 1985 in Leningrad; 2004 Olympic points race champion (93 points) and 2008 Madison bronze medalist with Aleksey Markov.
Milan Pawelec
Milan Pawelec (born 2007, Wolsztyn, Poland) is a Polish motorcycle racer, two-time Moto2 European Champion (2025, 2026) with AGR Team, first Pole in the Red Bull Rookies Cup, and a Moto2 World Championship replacement rider.
Milan–San Remo
Milan–San Remo (Milano–Sanremo, La Classicissima) is Italy's March one-day cycling race and the first of the five Monuments, almost 300 km long, first held 1907, won by Merckx a record seven times, with the Cipressa and Poggio deciding the finale.
Mille Miglia
Mille Miglia (1000 Miglia), Italian road race first run 26 March 1927 from Brescia to Rome and back, about 1,600 km; 24 speed editions to 1957, ended after fatal 1957 crashes, now a regularity rally for pre-1958 historic cars.
Minardi
Minardi, also known as the Minardi F1 Team, was an independent Italian Formula One constructor based in Faenza that raced from 1985 to 2005, never winning a race.
Mindaugas Umaras
Mindaugas Umaras (Миндаугас Ионович Умарас), Lithuanian track cyclist born 1968 in Kaunas; 1988 Olympic gold in the 4,000 m team pursuit for the Soviet Union, 11th for Lithuania at Atlanta 1996; brother of Gintautas Umaras.
Mini 4WD
Mini 4WD (ミニ四駆) is Tamiya's 1/32-scale motorized four-wheel-drive model car kit line, first released July 1982, with over 190 million sold and official track racing under Tamiya regulations.
Miriam Welte
Miriam Welte (born 1986, Kaiserslautern) is a retired German track cyclist, Olympic team sprint champion London 2012 and Rio 2016 bronze medalist with Kristina Vogel, six-time world champion, later DOSB vice president.
Misano Adriatico (fia_licensed_circuits ITA:misano-adriatico)
Misano World e: the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, a permanent 4.226 km clockwise circuit at Misano Adriatico, Italy, hosting the San Marino MotoGP, WorldSBK until 2031, and the 2024 Misano E-Prix.
Misha Charoudin
Misha Charoudin (Mikhail Grigorievitch Charoudin, born 1989, Moscow) is a Russian-born Dutch YouTuber and racing driver famous for Nürburgring Nordschleife videos, co-founder of Apex Nürburg, and BILSTEIN/Black Falcon endurance racer.
Modern Adventure Pro Cycling
Modern Adventure Pro Cycling (MAP) is an American UCI ProTeam founded for 2026 by George and Rich Hincapie, with a 21-rider roster, Factor bikes, a Tour de France ambition, and 35th place in the UCI rankings.
Mogens Frey Jensen
Mogens Frey Jensen, born 1941 in Glostrup, is a Danish retired track and road cyclist: 1968 Olympic team pursuit gold and individual pursuit silver, 1968 amateur world pursuit champion, and winner of the first Danish Tour de France stage in 1970.
Mollerussa Ax
Mollerussa Ax, or Circuit Parc de la Serra, is an FIA Grade 6A autocross circuit in Mollerussa, Lleida, Spain: 0.985 km dirt lap, 15 m width, hosting FIA European Autocross Championship and Spanish CEAX rounds.
Monaco Grand Prix
Monaco Grand Prix (Grand Prix de Monaco): Formula One street race on the 3.337 km Circuit de Monaco, first run 1929, on the F1 calendar since 1950 (continuously since 1955); known for minimal overtaking, the two-stop rule, and recent winners Leclerc, Norris, and Antonelli.
Monique Knol
Monique Knol, Dutch road cyclist born 1964 in Wolvega; 1988 Seoul Olympic road race gold, first Dutch woman to win Olympic cycling gold, 1992 Barcelona bronze, world champion, and founder of the first independent women's cycling team.
Monte Carlo Rally
Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo, also Rallye Monte-Carlo, the ACM-organized January WRC season opener since 1973, famed for Alpine winter tyre-strategy gambling, the 1966 Mini disqualification, and Ogier's record ten wins.
Monza Circuit
Autodromo Nazionale Monza (Temple of Speed), 1922 circuit in Monza's Royal Park near Milan; fastest F1 track, 5.793 km, host of the Italian Grand Prix since 1950, with disused 1955 banked oval and record 264.682 km/h lap.
Monza Rally Show
Monza Rally Show: circuit rally at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy, first held 1978, renamed 2013; WRC finale 2020-2021; Valentino Rossi won seven times; 2025 edition cancelled.