* 1972 – David Jefferies, English motorcycle racer ( d. 2003 )

Aermacchi went on to have success in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world with rider Renzo Pasolini finishing second in the 1972 250 cc Roadracing World Championship.

Days later, on November 11, 1972, Berry Oakley died from head injuries he received in another motorcycle accident near Napier Avenue and Inverness Street, only three blocks from the site of Duane's accident the previous year.

Eat a Peach is a 1972 double album by the American Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band ; it was the last to include founding member and lead slide-guitar player Duane Allman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident on October 29, 1971 while the album was being recorded.

Before the store came about, the sole-proprietor sold cendols along Jalan Nanas on his mobile-store attached to his motorcycle and had been so since 1972.

* BSA Thunderbolt, a British motorcycle manufactured by BSA between 1964 and 1972

* BSA Lightning, a motorcycle produced by BSA between 1965 and 1972

In March 1972, Malcolm Mortimore injured himself in a motorcycle accident.

* 1972 Honda XL250 " pent-roof " SOHC 4-valve single-cylinder machine ( the first mass-produced 4-valve motorcycle ).

" After Allman's death in a motorcycle accident later that year, the performance was included on the 1972 album Duane Allman: An Anthology.

The French Grand Prix motorcycle racing events were held at Charade from 1959 to 1967, and 1972 to 1974.

Manuel Sete Gibernau Bultó ( born December 15, 1972 in Barcelona ) is a former Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

The D175 was marketed as the B175 as BSA struggled against imports in the late 60s to its closure in 1972 ( the larger capacity " B " series having helped make them the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world ).

In 1972, motorcycle mechanics was the only program of instruction.

On November 11, 1972, Oakley was involved in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia, just three blocks from where Duane Allman had his fatal motorcycle accident the year before.

Garry McCoy ( born 18 April 1972 in Sydney, Australia ) is a professional motorcycle racer.

* 1972 – Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver ( d. 1999 )

* 1972 – Troy Wilson, Australian racing driver and AFL player

* 1972 – Giniel de Villiers, South African racing driver

In 1972, SCCA started its first showroom stock racing series, with a price ceiling on the cars of $ 3, 000.

1972 brought so many rule changes, it has prompted many to consider this year as the start of the modern era of NASCAR racing.

He ran customer cars in Formula Two under various names from 1972 to 1979 — even briefly running a customer Formula One Ferrari 312T as Scuderia Everest in 1976 — before gaining financial backing from well known Italian motor racing patron Piero Mancini in 1979 to set up the Minardi racing team as a constructor.

Homologation saw many out-and-out racing cars produced in sufficient quantities to see them classed as production vehicles ; the FIA responded by placing more restrictions on even the allegedly production-based cars and placed draconian limits on the power available to prototypes – these prototypes of the late 1960s / early 1970s were comfortably quicker than contemporary Grand Prix machinery and for 1972 they were constrained to run much smaller engines to F1 rules, often detuned for endurance.

* Daniele Nardello ( born 1972 ), a professional road racing cyclist who rides for Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli.

* Bert Hawthorne ( 1943 – 1972 ), New Zealand racing driver

A racing circuit, the Charade Circuit, close to the city, using closed-off public roads held the French Grand Prix in 1965, 1969, 1970 and 1972.

The track itself fell into disuse after 1972, although it has been digitally recreated in the Grand Prix Legends racing simulation and 2010 sees the 10 years of campaigning work to reopen the track culminating in The return of Motor racing to Crystal Palace

The West Ham Stadium, a football, greyhound racing and speedway stadium, operated between 1928 and 1972, with a capacity of 120, 000.

The Maryland Jockey Club sponsored spring and summer races at the race track south of town, and racing continued there until 1972, when they were moved to the Bowie Race Track.

* Tom Coronel ( 1972 ) – racing driver

Hosted by the Youngstown Yacht Club, the event was started in 1972 by Don Finkle, a YYC member looking for a different kind of yacht racing.

From 1972, R. J. Reynolds was a title sponsor of NHRA drag racing, the NASCAR Winston Cup Series and until, the IMSA Camel GT for sportscars.

Once a steeplechase jockey, Tagg ( who grew up in Abington, Pennsylvania and won his first race in 1972 at Liberty Bell Park ) was a journeyman who had been on the racing scene for over 30 years.

But when the Mont-Tremblant circuit had been closed down because of safety regarding the bitter winters seriously affecting the track surface and a dispute with the local racing authorities there in 1972, the alternating of the race stopped and Mosport solely continued to hold the Canadian Grand Prix from 1971-1977.

Rubens Gonçalves " Rubinho " Barrichello (, born 23 May 1972 in São Paulo ) is a racing driver from Brazil, best known for competing in Formula One between and.

On two wheels, the most famous Flying Finn was Jarno Saarinen, also known as The Baron, who won the 250cc road racing World Championship as privateer in 1972, and finished a close second to Giacomo Agostini in the 350cc class.

* Winston Cup, the name of a NASCAR racing series between 1972 – 2003

* 1972 – John Safran, Australian documentary maker and broadcaster

* 1972 – John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker ( b. 1898 )

In 1972 they performed for a Swedish documentary, Nancy & Lee In Las Vegas, which chronicled their Vegas concerts at the Riviera Hotel and featured solo numbers and duets from concerts, behind-the-scenes footage, and scenes of Sinatra's late husband, Hugh Lambert, and her mother.

** John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker ( d. 1972 )

The book The Ra Expeditions and the film documentary Ra ( 1972 ) were made about the voyages.

* T. Rex's documentary Born to Boogie ( 1972 );

* Chung Kuo, Cina ( documentary, 1972 )

* Norman Rockwell's World ... An American Dream, a 1972 short documentary film

* Inside Deep Throat, a 2005 documentary about the 1972 film

* He is the subject of a 1998 NFB documentary, The Rocket, and a 1972 NFB short film, composed of animated photographs of Richard, Mon numéro 9 en or.

* Prior to the 1972 release of Fritz the Cat, Austrian journalist Georg Stefan Troller ( see German Wikipedia ) interviewed Crumb for a 30-minute documentary entitled Comics und Katerideen on Crumb's life and art, as an episode of Troller's Personenbeschreibung (" Personality account ") documentary format broadcast on German ZDF.

A 1972 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus featured a mock documentary which investigated whether the residents of Hounslow, another London area suburb, had long ago been descendants of the people of Surbiton " who had made the great trek north.

On Saturday, September 2, 1972 Norman also performed at the Festival of Light-sponsored Festival for Jesus held in Hyde Park, London, which was filmed and released as a 50-minute documentary Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music ?, which featured Norman's 1972 song of the same name, which was written in response to the criticisms of Christian Rock music by American evangelist Bob Larson, whom Norman regularly lampooned at his concerts.

* Korbett Matthews ( born 1972 ), documentary filmmaker, teacher

A half-hour documentary film about Arbus's life and work known as Masters of Photography: Diane Arbus or Going Where I've Never Been: the Photography of Diane Arbus was produced in 1972 and released on video in 1989.

A documentary film based on the book was released in 1972 with Orson Welles as on-screen narrator.

The Concert for Bangladesh was also the title of the accompanying live album, a boxed three-record set, released in December 1971 ( January 1972 in Britain ), and Apple Films ' concert documentary, which opened in cinemas in the spring of 1972.

In the same year he appeared in Ringo Starr's film Born to Boogie, a documentary showing a concert at Wembley Empire Pool on 18 March 1972.

* April 26 – John Grierson, documentary filmmaker ( died 1972 )

In 1972, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired a one-hour television special featuring Velikovsky and his work, and this was followed by a thirty-minute documentary by the BBC in 1973.

* The Velikovsky Archive — an online collection of works, including unpublished manuscripts, audio recordings of lectures, and a video of the 1972 CBC documentary