Sentences with phrase «cup race win»

The road - racing specialist has five combined wins in NASCAR's Truck and Busch series, but so far a Nextel Cup race win has eluded him.

Not exact matches

In 2004, Kyle Larson — who yesterday won the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup race at Michigan — was just another kid with a dream.

The partnership makes sense: Both Eneos and Larson are emerging brands in the U.S. and in Nascar: Eneos has enjoyed steady growth, and Kyle won his first Sprint Cup race earlier this year, and also qualified for Nascar's Chase (championship playoff).

(Nominees included Super Bowl 50, the FIFA Women's World Cup, the Belmont Stakes, American Pharoah's Triple Crown - winning race, and Mayweather vs. Pacquiao.)

She has four world championship medals and won her last World Cup race before heading to Pyeongchang.

The 20 - year - old NASCAR driver was racing in just his second Sprint Cup competition and is now etched in the record books as the youngest driver to win the sports» biggest race.

Sanchez is also not cup - tied in the Champions League so could be a big boost to any club that does win the race for his signature this January.

Kevin Harvick won the pole position, but the race's real intrigue lies in the four drivers competing for the Sprint Cup Championship.

Jockey Kent Desormeaux won his sixth career Breeders» Cup race and his second Twinspires Sprint, 22 years after his first, riding Roy H to victory in the $ 1.5 million, 6 - furlong race, beating out Imperial Hint down the stretch.

You don't need to be a bully to win Cup Series races, but you certainly can not be timid when a situation warrants, and questions about Elliott's aggressiveness would've persisted.

Good Magic became the first maiden to win a Breeders» Cup race, pulling away in the $ 2 million Juvenile, winning the 1 1/16 - mile race by 5 1/2 lengths.

By Sunday he was good enough to win an informal race against competition that included Gene Walet, twice the Mallory Cup winner and up to this point again the favorite.

Talismanic, at 14 - 1 odds, led a furious charge down the stretch to win the 1 1/2 - mile, $ 4 million Breeders» Cup Turf race, beating out Beach Patrol and defending Turf champion Highland Reel.

5 Matt The most consistent man in NASCAR will need to win more KENSETH than one race — his total last year — to defend his Cup title.

Though he won only one race, Kenseth cruised to his first Cup title on the strength of 25 top 10 finishes.

Last year Busch, Earnhardt, Harvick, Johnson, Kenseth and Newman won 19 of the 36 Cup races (52.7 %).

MOTOR SPORTS — WALT HANSGEN, West - field, N.J. throttle jockey, roared Briggs Cunningham's new Lister Jaguar up to 120 mph on straightaway, drove front - running race to win 80 - mile President's Cup feature with 75 - mph average at Upper Marlboro, Md..

Martin Truex Jr. rallied to win the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400, the first race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, on Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway.

Kyle Busch finds himself in a familiar position entering the Monster Energy Cup Series race Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway: A win in the Bass Pro Shops / NRA Night Race would give him his second three - race NASCAR national touring sweep on the Tennessee half - mile trrace Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway: A win in the Bass Pro Shops / NRA Night Race would give him his second three - race NASCAR national touring sweep on the Tennessee half - mile trRace would give him his second three - race NASCAR national touring sweep on the Tennessee half - mile trrace NASCAR national touring sweep on the Tennessee half - mile track.

HORSE RACING — The 5 - year - old mare DRUMTOP ($ 28.80) won the $ 143,600 Hialeah Turf Cup from a crack field of males, including Fort Marcy, the 1970 Horse of the Year, who unexpectedly set the pace and faltered in the stretch to finish third.

He acknowledged it was his best chance to win a Cup race in 27 starts, and he learned things that would make him better next time he found himself in a similar situation.

Harvick has won three of the first seven races and entered the weekend as one of the favorite to win Sunday's Cup Series race at the half - mile track.

His inability to win races or consistently lead laps will keep him from taking a fifth Cup.

Kyle Larson was one of the best drivers throughout the 2017 Monster Energy Cup Series season, winning four races, leading the third-most laps and entering the playoffs as a title favorite.

SKIING — It was a case of peaking too late: American BARBARA COCHRAN won it all at the World Cup races in Heavenly Valley, Calif. — first the slalom, then the giant slalom — to shut out the tough touring European stars.

Reigning Cup champ Jimmie Johnson didn't win the first race of the Chase, but his solid finish sent a powerful message nonetheless

The defending Cup champion won two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway, the final race before the Easter holiday break.

With her downhill victory last Saturday at Lake Louise, Canada, 21 - year - old Lindsey Kildow (right) became the first U.S. woman to win World Cup races in back - to - back years since Picabo Street a decade ago.

Martin Truex Jr. is the favorite to win the Cup Series championship, a status earned by winning a NASCAR Cup Series - best seven races and leading in every major statistical category.

24 - year - old Kyle Larson has a win and three second - place finishes in five races this season and is atop the Monster Energy Cup Series standings.

They already have won two consecutive ocean races — this year's Hennessey Cup and the earlier California Challenge trophy.

Last time: One year ago, Juan Pablo Montoya won his second career Sprint Cup Series race, completing the career sweep of NASCAR's Cup road courses.

Except, of course, this was the widespread belief last year, then all Johnson did was win a playoff - best three races en route to win a seventh Cup championship, tying the all - time mark shared by Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt.

By not winning, Kenseth was effectively knocked out of the Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff and afterward he hinted at seeking possible retribution toward Logano, who's won the past three races and emerged as the championship favorite.

Kyle Busch would win the First Data 500 and with it earn a pass to race for the Cup Series title Nov. 19 at Homestead - Miami Speedway.

Drivers under the Hendrick banner have won 11 Cup championships and 219 races.

His cup should be running over, for on St. Leger day his Tip the Bottle won the very next race, the Town Moor.

Jan 04,2016... AUTO RACINGâ $» PETER REVSON won the season's third Canadian - American Challenge Cup race, beating team...

He did at least break his scoring duck for the season in the FA cup win over Preston and has spoken to Arsenal Player about his hopes that this will lead to more, as well as his take on the title race which he thinks will go all the way.

BOATING — TOM D'EATH, driving Miss Budweiser, won the Gold Cup, unlimited hydroplane racing's oldest and most prestigious trophy, by completing six laps of the 2 1/2 - mile Mission Bay course off San Diego at an average speed of 124.593 mph.

HUNT RACING George T. Weymouth's 6 - year - old mare Star Salome won 25th Monmouth County «Hunt Cup over timber barriers, his 5 - year old mare Chee Oaks beat 11th Gold Cupfield over brush, as Wilmington, Del. sportsman swept features at Middletown, N.J.

Unlike Greene, who was a star on the World Cup circuit, Lee - Gartner had not won a race in seven years of World Cup competition.

In 1967 Petty won 27 races (out of 48), a record that will be virtually impossible to break because NASCAR's Winston Cup tour now counts only 29 races.

Miller was fast when he won the overall World Cup title in 2005 and then again in 2008, and fast when he won more career World Cup races (32) than any U.S. skier of either gender.

Gallant Man, toting 132 pounds for first time, handily completed two - race assault on Hollywood Park, won $ 107,600 Sunset Handicap four lengths over Eddie Schmidt, the same horse he beat 10 days earlier in $ 162,100 Gold Cup.

Before Allegra won the Adams Cup (it was her third) the big 210 hulls had to slice through 53 miles of race course.

IF CLINT BOWYER wins his first Nextel Cup race this season, which many in the Cup garage believe will happen, then he may feel better about his seventh - place finish in last Saturday night's Pepsi 400 at Daytona than he did at the time.

I hope United outdo City in the race for fourh, because they have a terrible manager in LVG that seems ever more likely to be here next year, especially if he finishes fourth and wins the FA cup which by Arsenal standards is a successful season!

But one reason why media picks on us is because we have a manager who claims to be in the title race and in it to win it in other cup competition every year, but fails to deliver.

«The Gunners may have been second rate too often when it comes to the title race, but don't put winning the FA Cup in the same bracket.»