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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Speed Racer (Anime)|Speed Racer]]'' and its various adaptations, including the [[Speed Racer (Filmfilm)|film]].
* ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula (Anime)|Future GPX Cyber Formula]]''.
* ''Scramble Wars'' transplants characters from series including ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' and ''[[Gall Force]]'' into a world of [[Wacky Racing]].
* ''[[Dash Yonkuro|Dash! Yonkuro]]''
* ''[[Bakusou Kyoudai Let's and& Go (Manga)!!|Bakusou Kyoudai Let's And Go!]]''
 
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Great Race]]'' (1965) is Blake Edwards' comedy film about a long distance auto race in 1908. ''Really'' long distance. New York to Paris, traveling '''west'''.
* ''[[ItsIt's aA Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' (1963) has a dying robber tell several witnesses of his fatal accident about $350,000 he hid after stealing it years earlier. An impromptu race develops and [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'': a race from London to Paris.
** The sequel ''Monte Carlo or Bust'' (aka ''Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies''): an auto race across Europe.
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* ''[[Hidalgo]]'' is about a survival race across the desert.
* ''[[Secretariat]]'', the 2010 biopic about the legendary record-smashing thoroughbred that swept the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973.
* The [[Peanuts]] film ''[[Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown]]''.
 
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Ben -Hur]]'', Lew Wallace's 1880 novel (adapted for stage and film), Judah Ben Hur and Messala play out their conflict in a famous [[Chariot Race]].
* ''[[National Velvet]]'' (1935 novel, 1944 film, and 1960s TV series) centers on a fourteen-year-old girl's effort to train a horse to win an endurance race.
* Laura Hillenbrand's 2001 book ''Seabiscuit: An American Legend'' about the Depression-era underdog thoroughbred, which became a film in 2003.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In one episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', Tom and B'Elanna participate in a race with the ''Delta Flyer''.
* [[Stargate SG -1]] had the season 7 episode "Space Race", with Colonel Carter as guest engineer on another planet's ship.
* One episode of ''[[MASH]]'' focuses on a betting-heavy footrace between Father Mulcahy and a sprinter from another unit.
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Cars (Animation)|Cars]]'', Lightning McQueen is a stock car. The film climax occurs during a race.
** ''[[Cars 2]]'' uses an international race as a backdrop for a [[James Bond]]-inspired [[Mistaken for Spies]] plot.
** ''[[Planes (Animation)|Planes]]'' has the Wings Around the Globe Rally that Dusty participates in.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has done this twice:
** In the episode "Fall Weather Friends", Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle participate in an annual race called the Running of the Leaves. Rainbow and Applejack are trying to prove who's the more athletic of the two. {{spoiler|It turns out that they tie for last place because they focused so much on their rivalry rather than the race. Twilight, on the other hand, ends up in fifth place.}}
** In the episode "May the Best Pet Win!", Rainbow Dash holds a race through Ghastly Gorge because she wants a fast pet that can keep up with her, and she claims that the pet that crosses the finish line with her wins. {{spoiler|It isn't one of the speedy birds that won the race that becomes her pet - it's the turtle that insisted on participating and saved Rainbow when her wing was trapped beneath a boulder and carries her across the finish line.}}
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