Sentences with phrase «american racing scene»

He kept his ties with the American racing scene driving again for Starworks Motorsport in the 2014 and 2015 Daytona 24 Hours.

Some felt it wasbecause he couldn't make the weight anymore, but Winkfield laughs at this.Others said the white jockeys were beginning to gang up on the Negroes — and itis true that this had a great deal to do with their virtual disappearance fromthe American racing scene — but Winkfield says he was always treated well.Colonel Chinn, who calls Winkfield «the finest colored man I ever knew, with a heart as big as all outdoors,» blames Jimmy's exodus on thelegislation that made racing illegal for several years in some of the easternstates and moved the big meetings to places like Butte, Mont, and Salt LakeCity and Hamilton, Ont.

Not exact matches

As a sportswriter, much of Barbara's output has been devoted to baseball players, distance runners, racing drivers, game wardens and other familiar characters on the American sporting scene.

Since horse racing and horse betting usually go together, the opportunity to gamble presents itself in a manner somewhat unique on the American scene.

Buirski illustrates these scenes of national consciousness - raising with snippets from race films, an American genre of interwar movies starring black actors and filmed for black audiences.

The racing firm located in Huntington Beach, California, has been a fixture in the sports - car racing scene for the past several years, contesting in both the World Challenge GT and American Le Mans Series.

While having been a fixture on the North American sports car racing scene for over two decades, the team had entered just three races with a Porsche 911 GT3 R this season prior to its return at Lime Rock with an Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 with drivers James Davison and Brandon Davis.

The breed came on the American scene in the early 1900's when sled racing was all the rage in Alaska.

Five museums collaborated — the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — with each submitting 20 works from their collections, from gritty urban scenes to»60s Pop Art to challenging images reflecting race and gender politics.