Alright your bringing out the big guns now. How about NASCAR naming their tracks motor speedways and not engine speedway? Think they might know a little about the correct terminology to call their sport? Maybe a billion $ sport. Wassup holmes?
Subaru, Harley Davidson, Honda, Nissan, Cadillac, Chrysler, Ford, Toyota, etc. sell their engines in their vehicles.
I trust the engine makers more than sporting events. Apparently, you trust sports, sport.
BTW Did you ever hear the phrase, "Gentlemen start your motors!"?
Used to be that way:
Starting command for the Indianapolis 500:
The call for the engines to start is made by stating "Gentlemen, start your engines!" When female drivers are competing, the call has been amended to "Lady and Gentlemen..." or "Ladies and Gentlemen..."
The exact origin of the phrase is unclear, and there have been several conflicting accounts of who was the first to recite it, and what the exact wording of it was.[25] Prior to WWII, it was commonplace for an aerial bomb to signal the start of the engines.[25] Seth Kline was the official starter of the "500" from 1925-1926 & 1934-1953. Kline is thought to have made an informal "Gentlemen, start your motors!" command as early as 1948 to accompany the bomb.[25] The first documented case was in 1950, and that was recited by prolific public address announcer John Francis "Irish" Horan.[25][26] Kline was again reported as saying it in 1951,[27] (though some report it was Horan[26]) Either Kline[25] or Horan said it again in 1952.[26] It was around that time the command was changed from "...motors!" to "...engines!" The participants and officials alike, preferred the more technical term "engines" to describe their machines.
Sid Collins stated that chief steward Harlan Fengler explained to him "there are no motors in the race, just engines."[27]
