Sentences with phrase «checkered flag in»

It's time to wave the checkered flag in the multifamily sector.
Smash through fences, drift through civilian traffic, and race for the checkered flag in cars that all feature that authentic Forza feel.
Milner took the checkered flag in the No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.R for the fifth round of the ALMS as the duo became the first in the GT class to win multiple...
Dirk Werner took the checkered flag in second place, 2.882 seconds behind, driving the No. 25 BMW Team RLL IHG Rewards Club BMW M6 GTLM started from the pole by Bill Auberlen and also driven by Bruno Spengler.
Pipo Derani captured the checkered flag in a final sprint in Saturday's 64th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
The World Endurance Challenge kicked off its 2015 season with panache, as Porsche and Audi dueled to the checkered flag in LMP1, and gr...
St. Antoine explains the historical significance of Sebring in Jaguar's motorsports history, as in 1955, it represented the brand's first American victory, with Mike Hawthorn and American Phil Walters taking the checkered flag in the 12 Hours of Sebring.
In a season dominated by veterans, a Jones win at Bristol would make him the first driver under - 25 to score a checkered flag in 2018.
When Earnhardt ran out of gas on the final lap of the Coca - Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May 2011, less than a mile from seizing his first checkered flag in 105 starts, Letarte expected a postrace rant from his driver.
The Furniture Row Racing driver and current championship leader took the checkered flag in the Hollywood Casino 400 Sunday at Kansas Speedway.
Qualifying will be broadcast each day on a mix of ESPN3, WatchESPN and ABC, with lap announcer Allen Bestwick alongside analysts Scott Goodyear and Eddie Cheever, the latter capturing the checkered flag in 1998.
The man and the event are synonymous; no one has ever gained so much attention for losing a race as Petty did at the Daytona 500 in 1976, when he and David Pearson crashed into each other with the checkered flag in sight.
Brad Keselowski is one of the five winners this season, taking the checkered flag in Atlanta.
Five different drivers have won a race at this early stage of the season, including Jimmie Johnson, who has taken the checkered flag in this race twice since 2007.
From that came the implementation of a three - stage format that incentivizes drivers with bonus points that apply toward the championship so that they push hard from green flag to checkered flag in every regular season race.

Not exact matches

Checkered Flag was originally released in 1991 but here we're talking about the even less well - known version for the commercial failure that was the Atari Jaguar.
SI predicts how the Nextel Cup standings will look once the checkered flag waves on the final race, in Homestead, Fla., on Nov. 21.
2017 saw Haas finish ahead of Sauber and McLaren in the constructors» title; they remained in contention with Toro Rosso and Renault until the final checkered flag, but ultimately fell short due to a combination of recurring brake problems and a weaker one - lap pace that made for some very poor qualifying sessions.
Harvick and Bowyer combined to win four of the last five races, with Bowyer winning in Martinsville and Harvick winning three straight, including two checkered flags on the west coast swing.
Keselowski had the fastest car in the closing laps and was chasing down leader Jimmie Johnson, but was unable to catch Johnson before the checkered flag waved.
The 47 - year - old driver from Indianapolis was in a coma and on a respirator when the checkered flag fell Sunday.
When Johnson wenton to take the checkered flag at Daytona with team engineer Darian Grubbsitting atop the pit box in Knaus's place, Knaus was watching from hisliving - room couch, eating popcorn.
Busch's deft evasive maneuver kept him from disaster and put him in striking position of the battle being waged for the checkered flag by leaders Helio Castroneves and Ryan Hunter - Reay.
Last year Stoffel didn't even make the start in Bahrain, he was pulling the car into the pitlane so this year from two races four cars to the checkered flag and third in the constructors» championship.
A Ganassi driverhasn't won a Nextel Cup race since Jamie McMurray took the checkered flag inCharlotte in October 2002.
As NASCAR prepares to drop the checkered flag on its season, Tony Stewart (above) is in the driver's seat.
Busch has only picked up a single checkered flag since, and led all of eight laps in the past eight races.
Guests of Italian descent included House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., the highest - ranking Italian - American in U.S. politics; former race car driver Mario Andretti, who sported socks designed like a checkered racing flag; fashion designer Giorgio Armani; actor John Turturro; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; and actor - director Roberto Benigni.
On top of that, Rockstar will be including new and strategically placed checkpoints in the game, which will «instantly change your vehicle class to match the portion of the course ahead, creating dynamic racing with ever shifting challenges to take the checkered flag...»
Oh, it's still a Cars movie — you still get Owen Wilson's McQueen whizzing past checkered flags, in racing sequences that look like a NASCAR enthusiast's nocturnal emissions.
Open Windows thrills and chills, and then roars across the finish line with the checkered flag waving in victory.
Any problems marked «I'm Finished», indicated with a checkered flag, will be auto - scored (if applicable) when the student clicks «Turn In».
Crossing the checkered flag 9 seconds later in second place was the Eneos SC430 (Daisuke Ito / Bjorn Wirdheim), followed six seconds after by the Raybrig HSV - 010 (Takuya Izawa / Naoki Yamamoto).
There was excitement in the air at nearly every turn of the minute hand as true professionals and admitted amateurs vied for the checkered flags.
But it's incredibly rare that an active race car, let alone one that just took one checkered flag and will be taking another green in just a matter of weeks, is dropped into the press day scrum during an auto show.
The exterior of the DS3 Racing is done in a special livery featuring «DS3,» «Citroën Racing,» and checkered flag graphics on the roof, the rear wheel arches, under the side mirrors, and next to the fuel filler cap.
The Zagato would make a formidable drift - challenge entry, and it did prove its worth at the 24 - hour race at the Nuerburgring in 2011, where both preproduction cars saw the checkered flag.
In his more than a decade of racing in the IndyCar series, Brazilian Tony Kanaan has had multiple second and third - place finishes in the historic Memorial Day weekend race, but has never taken the checkered flaIn his more than a decade of racing in the IndyCar series, Brazilian Tony Kanaan has had multiple second and third - place finishes in the historic Memorial Day weekend race, but has never taken the checkered flain the IndyCar series, Brazilian Tony Kanaan has had multiple second and third - place finishes in the historic Memorial Day weekend race, but has never taken the checkered flain the historic Memorial Day weekend race, but has never taken the checkered flag.
In 1936, a 747 - cc Datsun Midget took the checkered flag, and we haven't stopped racing — and winning — since.
It took another year, 1966, for Ford and Shelby American to stage the dramatic 1 -2-3 Ford GT 24 Hour of Le Mans finish with the Shelby American Team Ford GT's in first and second at the checkered flag after a grueling 24 hours.
Sunset on the Monterey Peninsula will arrive at 7:12 p.m. on Saturday evening, and the closing laps will be run in twilight until the checkered flag falls at 7:30 p.m..
The No. 25 BMW M8 GTE of Connor De Phillippi and Alexander Sims raced to a well - deserved second place finish in today's IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio, taking the checkered flag 1.673 seconds behind the race winning No. 912 Porsche.
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After the turn of fortune seven laps later, the checkered flag signaled Corvette Racing's first win in 2010.
Corvette Racing has won the checkered flag seven times during the ALMS era but has yet to see the winners circle in GT2 Corvette C6.R.
After 24 hours of hard racing, the C7.Rs finished 2nd and 4th in the GTE Pro class with the checkered flag belonging to Ferrari.
Less than a month after the epic Porsche - Corvette battle at Laguna Seca that ended with Porsche winning the checkered flag and the Corvette going hard into the wall, the two street versions are side by side at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California.
One year ago the No. 73 Compuware Corvette took SPEED viewers from the green flag to the checkered flag and a victory in the GTE Pro category.
«It was very emotional to be in the garage with the entire team when the checkered flag dropped,» he added.
Built as an homage to the Rallye Kadett B Sprint from the early 1970s, the three door Corsa is covered in Sunny Melon Yellow paint that is offset by a standard black hood and tailgate with the checkered flag motif on either body panel as a color matching accent.
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