The Baja 1000 was organized by the National Off-Road Racing Association beginning in 1977.
 The success and popularity of road racing has seen the sport spread across the globe with Grand Prix road races having been held on six continents
 The exceptions were the steeply banked egg-shaped near oval circuit of Brooklands in England, completed in 1906, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and the oval, banked speedways constructed in Europe at Monza in 1922 and at Montlhry in 1924

