Back in the 70s ABC's Wide World of Sports began pioneering pseudo-sports shows by having a competition that pitted athletes of various sports against each other. There was some complaining when they included a race car driver the first year, particularly when he came in second, beating all those highly trained athletes from other sports. Not his fault. Intelligent and in superb condition, he just handled the individual contests better than the people he was up against.

Never had another race car driver in that series.