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Steve Hegg
Steve Hegg (Stephen Edward Hegg, alias Steve Ingram), American road and track cyclist born 1963 in Dana Point, California. Won 1984 Olympic gold in the 4,000 m individual pursuit and silver in the team pursuit; later US time trial champion and 1996 Olympian.
Steve O'Donnell (NASCAR)
Steve O'Donnell is an American motorsports executive and CEO of NASCAR since April 25, 2026, the first chief executive outside the France family; he joined NASCAR in 1996 and was its president from March 2025.
Steven Burke
Steven Burke, British track cyclist born 1988 in Burnley, England; Olympic individual pursuit bronze at Beijing 2008 and team pursuit gold in world record times at London 2012 and Rio 2016; MBE.
Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Moss (1929–2020), British racing driver nicknamed Mr Motor Racing; won 16 World Championship Grands Prix and the 1955 Mille Miglia, runner-up four times, yet never won the F1 title.
Stock car racing
Stock car racing: oval-track motorsport with passenger-car-looking race cars, led in the US by NASCAR (founded 1948 by Bill France Sr. in Daytona Beach). Key series: Cup Series, ARCA; classes include late models and modifieds.
Stoffel Vandoorne
Stoffel Vandoorne, Belgian racing driver born 1992 in Kortrijk; 2015 GP2 champion, McLaren F1 driver 2017-2018, 2021-22 Formula E World Champion with Mercedes, now Peugeot WEC driver and Aston Martin F1 reserve.
Strade Bianche
Strade Bianche, a UCI WorldTour and Women's WorldTour one-day race over Tuscan gravel roads from and to Siena's Piazza del Campo; first held 2007 as Monte Paschi Eroica, won 2026 by Tadej Pogačar, his fourth title.
Street racing
Street racing: unsanctioned, illegal drag racing on public roads, including intersection takeovers. Also called side shows. Causes hundreds of U.S. fatalities; penalties include fines, impoundment, arrest; legal alternative is NHRA Street Legal track events.
Stripped Tour de France titles and results
Stripped Tour de France titles are overall victories annulled by governing bodies, most often for doping; Garin (1904), Armstrong (1999–2005), Landis (2006), and Contador (2010) all lost theirs.
Subaru World Rally Team
Subaru World Rally Team (SWRT), Subaru's factory WRC entry run by Prodrive from 1990 to 2008; won manufacturers' titles 1995-1997 and drivers' titles with McRae, Burns, and Solberg before withdrawing after 2008.
Sugo
Sportsland SUGO (スポーツランドSUGO) is a motor sports complex in Murata, Miyagi, Japan, opened 1975 and owned by Yamaha Motor. Its 3,621 m International Racing Course hosts Super GT, Super Formula, and All Japan championships.
Super 2000 World Rally Championship
The Super 2000 World Rally Championship (SWRC) was a FIA support championship to the World Rally Championship for Super 2000 rally cars, running three seasons from 2010 to 2012.
Super Formula Championship (全日本スーパーフォーミュラ選手権)
Super Formula Championship (全日本スーパーフォーミュラ選手権) is Japan's premier single-seater series, run by JRP since the Formula Nippon era, using Dallara SF23 cars with Honda and Toyota turbo engines; the 2026 season is its 54th.
Super GT
Super GT, formerly the All-Japan GT Championship (JGTC), is a Japanese grand touring car racing series founded in 1994, renamed in 2005, with GT500 and GT300 classes racing together.
Super Taikyu Series
Super Taikyu Series (スーパー耐久シリーズ), Japan's production-car-based participatory endurance championship since 1991, run by the Super Taikyu Mirai Organization under Akio Toyoda; features the Fuji 24 Hours and manufacturer carbon-neutral development cars.
Supercars Championship
Repco Supercars Championship, formerly the Australian Touring Car Championship: Australasia's premier touring car series. Gen3 Camaro, Mustang, and from 2026 Toyota GR Supra; 2026 season has 14 rounds, 37 races, and a Sprint Cup, Enduro Cup, and Finals Series.
Superkart
Superkart: long-circuit racing kart with complete bodywork, FIA Group 4 class of 250 cm³, ~100 HP twin-cylinder engines, 215 kg minimum with driver, raced on car circuits like Silverstone at up to 240 kph.
Susie Wolff
Susie Wolff (nee Stoddart), Scottish ex-DTM and Williams F1 test driver, first woman in an F1 weekend since 1992; now Managing Director of F1 Academy and founder of Dare to be Different.
Suzuka Circuit (鈴鹿サーキット)
Suzuka Circuit (鈴鹿サーキット) is a 5.807 km figure-eight racing circuit in Mie, Japan, built in 1962 as a Honda test track and home of the F1 Japanese Grand Prix since 1987 and the Suzuka 8 Hours.
Swiss Grand Prix
Swiss Grand Prix (Großer Preis der Schweiz), Formula 1 race at Bremgarten near Bern; first held 1934, a World Championship round 1950–1954, last won by Fangio; ended by the 1955 Le Mans ban, revived at Dijon in 1982.
T. J. Lavin
T.J. Lavin (Thomas Joseph Lavin, born 1976) is an American BMX dirt jumper from Las Vegas and host of MTV's The Challenge since 2005; King of the Dirt 1995, three X Games golds, 2010 coma-inducing crash, USA BMX Hall of Fame 2022.
Tadej Pogačar
Tadej Pogačar, Slovenian road cyclist of UAE Team Emirates-XRG, five-time Tour de France winner (fifth title 2026), Giro-Tour double, five straight Il Lombardia, back-to-back world titles; grew up in Komenda.
Tai Woffinden
Tai Woffinden, British speedway rider from Scunthorpe raised in Perth, three-time FIM Speedway World Champion (2013, 2015, 2018), first British triple world champion, 2021 Speedway of Nations winner, retired July 2026 after crash injuries.
Takuma Sato
Takuma Sato (佐藤琢磨), born 1977 in Tokyo, Japanese racing driver; two-time Indianapolis 500 winner (2017, 2020), first Japanese Indy 500 and INDYCAR race winner; former F1 driver 2002–2008 with Jordan, BAR, Super Aguri.
Talladega Superspeedway
Talladega Superspeedway (Alabama International Motor Speedway) is a 2.66-mile, 33-degree-banked tri-oval in Lincoln, Alabama, opened by Bill France Sr. in 1969; NASCAR's longest, highest-banked Cup track, hosting two race weekends yearly.
Tanner Foust
Tanner Foust, American racing and stunt driver, Top Gear USA host; three-time US rallycross champion, four X Games golds, two Formula Drift titles, 2019 ARX champion, McLaren Extreme E driver.
Tao Geoghegan Hart
Tao Geoghegan Hart (born 1995, London), Giro d'Italia 2020 winner and 2023 Tour of the Alps champion, British road cyclist for Sky/Ineos, Lidl-Trek 2024-26, EF Education-EasyPost from 2027.
Targa Florio
Targa Florio, Sicilian open-road motor race in the Madonie mountains, founded by Vincenzo Florio, first run 6 May 1906, won by Alessandro Cagno; 61 editions to 1977, World Championship round 1958-1973, Porsche 11 wins, a rally since 1978.
Tatiana Calderón
Tatiana Calderón (Tatiana Calderón Noguera, born 1993, Bogotá) is a Colombian racing driver, first woman to race in F2 and lead an F2 lap, Alfa Romeo F1 test driver 2018-2021, 2022 IndyCar rookie, and first woman to win a NASCAR Brasil Series race (2026).
Tazio Nuvolari
Tazio Nuvolari (Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari, 1892–1953), the "Flying Mantuan," Italian motorcycle and Grand Prix racing driver; 1930/1933 Mille Miglia, 1932 European Champion, 1935 German GP winner.