Not exact matches
For Vonn, who has four
World Cup
championships and
raced in more
World Cup events than any other American in addition to her Olympic medals, monetary success came in the form of lucrative endorsements.
She has four
world championship medals and won her last World Cup race before heading to Pyeongc
world championship medals and won her last
World Cup race before heading to Pyeongc
World Cup
race before heading to Pyeongchang.
Yohan Blake beat Usain Bolt in the 100 - and 200 - meter dashes at the Jamaican Olympic trials, won the 2011
world championship in the 100m — a
race in which Bolt did not participate — and was viewed as the reason Bolt wasn't a runaway favorite to repeat his stunning feat from the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Since the start of the U.S. Grand Prix, has any driver won that
race and gone on to win the
world championship?
Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentina's daring
world champion, began bid for fourth title, gunning his borrowed Ferrari at record - breaking 79.4 mph to win Argentina Grand Prix at Buenos Aires, first
championship race of 1956.
The Levi's
race is considered the
world championship.
BOATING — TED TURNER of Atlanta won the
World 5.5 - meter sailing
championships with four victories in seven
races off Oyster Bay, N.Y. Turner finished with the low score of 16.7, David Forbes of Sydney, Australia was second with 32.7 and King Olav of Norway third with 37.7.
Professional bicycle
racing was at its peak in the United States when Marshall Walter (Major) Taylor, one of eight children of a Negro Civil War veteran, won the 1899
world championship and the U.S. title a year later.
Jenson Button was desperate to secure the 2009
world championship with a
race to spare in 2009, but with teammate and title rival Rubens Barrichello (yes, he did once get sorta close to actually winning one!)
With three
races for the 1957
world championship for manufacturers now run, Ferrari has gone ahead of its keenest rival, Maserati, two victories to one.
TRANSLATION Sirs: Ganbare is a much more appropriate name for the underdog yacht that Douglas Peterson built on a shoestring and
raced with success against far more expensive boats in the 1973
World One Ton Cup
championship than your translation of the name — «good luck» — would imply (Sardinia Sea Script: Viva Cinderella!
Last February he got the silver medal in the 20 - km
race at the
world championships, the highest finish for an American in international biathlon competition.
Jan 04,2016... In ocean powerboat
racing's showdown off Key West for the
world championship it was Brazil's Wally F...
That is how the NASCAR
world turns heading into the AAA Texas 500 Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway (2:15 p.m. ET, NBCSN), the second of three semifinal
races that will determine the four drivers who will vie for the
championship in two weeks at Homestead - Miami Speedway.
They are, instead, getting as close as they can to the No. 1 outdoor passion of all Seattle, the bucking, roaring hydroplanes which on August 9 will
race for the Gold Cup, the speedboat
championship of the
world.
Quite often these took place on circuits that had already been given
championship races but there were some that never quite made it to full
World Championship status.
The Silverstone circuit looked very different when it first hosted a F1 season opener, more specifically the maiden
race in the F1
world championship.
That's because Lopez, like Formula E
championship leader Sebastien Buemi, is missing New York to
race for Toyota in the FIA
World Endurance
Championship at the Nurburgring.
It was no different this April Fool's Day for the motorsport
world, with plenty of hilarious and cool jokes from
racing championships, teams and tracks.
The occasion for this debut was a two - week spell of concentrated
racing at 11 U.S. and Canadian tracks for what the Harness Tracks of America calls the
world driving
championship.
Still, as 1970 ski
racing moves toward its competitive pinnacle — the FIS
World Alpine
championships next week at Val Gardena in northern Italy — there are signs that the season is about to produce one of sport's classic battles: the challenge of the crafty old kings of the mountain by brash young hotshots.
My proudest achievement in
racing will always be to have won the
world championship with this incredible team of people, the Silver Arrows.
«Just as important, McLaren has the technical resource and financial strength to be able to very quickly win
races and
world championships in F1.
Sure, Toyota will benefit from having the double
world champion in one of its cars at its home
race, the WEC will benefit from the publicity and Fernando will benefit from potentially being able to realistically challenge for the
championship now, but what about everyone else?
He was on course for a podium but a tyre failure eight laps from the end put him out of the
race, whilst Michael went on to finish second, securing
world championship number seven in the process.
Bruni's
raced in
championships across the
world, from the American Le Mans Series to Super GT, FIA WEC and GT Asia.
The Brazilian made his debut with Sauber back in 2002 and had a long spell with Ferrari where he achieved 11
race victories, also coming desperately close to the
world championship in the dramatic 2008 season finale, where Massa missed out on the title by a single point.
The swirl of a major league pennant
race or a Marciano - Moore heavyweight
championship fight — yes, even the
World Series — will be only of passing interest in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Columbus, Atlanta, Miami and many more citadels of football.
2012
World Endurance Champion and three - time Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer is used to
racing some of the fastest cars in some of the fastest
championships.
Neel Jani joined Dragon
Racing Formula E team for the
championship's fourth season following Porsche's LMP1 departure from the
World Endurance
Championship.
It was recently confirmed that Jani would rejoin his old team Rebellion
Racing in the LMP1 class of the
World Endurance
Championship, he will
race alongside his former Porsche teammate, Andre Lotterer, who continues to
race in the Formula E
championship.
Still, more
racing and the lack of pressure that comes with the
world championship might make for a refreshing change, and could be a good place to try out new things on the public — we don't want a repeat of «elimination qualifying» again!
For all those who missed the alpine
world championship last winter, there was Garmisch» 78, winner of the
racing and competition category.
There are the common exemptions reserved for the top 50 in the
world rankings, recent major winners in the other three
championships, and the PGA Tour and Euro Tour's playoff points
races.
In 1962 Clark won three
world championship point
races, including the U.S. Grand Prix, and led in every event in which his Climax - engined Lotus was functioning properly.
What's more, the same select major events that Grantland Rice and Ted Husing faithfully covered before the war remain preeminent: the Triple Crown horse
races, the Indianapolis 500, heavyweight title fights, the Olympics, the U.S. Open and Masters golf tournament, the
World Series, the bowl games, the Wimbledon and U.S. tennis
championships.
But because a threepenny bolt failed in the final
race, letting out the oil at a time when Clark was way ahead of his rival, Britain's Graham Hill, he lost the
race and the
world championship.
It was a dramatic
race too, as Jack Brabham ended up pushing his car across the line to win his first
world championship.
Of the 17
races on the 2018 calendar, six take place on ovals, six on road course, and five on street courses, making IndyCar perhaps the truest test of driver abilities of any
championship in the
world.
Even though there are still 18
races to go this season, the two bad
races and the fact Mercedes has yet to win has got him worried about his chances of winning
world championship number five.
The chassis (No. 211) is the very one Schumacher
raced to his fifth and final victory at Monaco and was also the car he
raced in the Hungarian GP, when he clinched his fourth
world championship.
The bitterness of the situation was fully exposed when Celtic went to South America in November to settle the so - called
world club
championship with the South American champions,
Racing Club of Argentina.
Aside from during the pit stops, Schumacher led the whole
race and took the win - a record - equalling (at the time) 51st - and his fourth
world championship with four
race left to go in the season.
Having spent half a decade solidifying their reputation as big -
race skiers — with Tommy Moe's Olympic downhill win in Lillehammer, Picabo Street's 1996
world downhill
championship and 1998 Olympic Super G title, Hilary Lindh's downhill gold in Sestriere — the Americans squandered a home course advantage in Vail with a grim performance.
Once Jody Scheckter had won the 1979
world championship for Ferrari, the gloves came off and team orders were no more, meaning Villeneuve could start to
race for himself again.
It draws together some of the biggest names and teams from various Porsche Carrera Cup
championships around the
world for one massive 61 - car
race.
Stirling Moss won the
race, but Fangio brought Collins» car home in second place, winning the fourth of his five
world championships in the process.
Alfa Romeo has a long history in F1, with Giuseppe Farina and Juan Manuel Fangio winning the first two
world championships driving Alfas before the company withdrew from grand prix
racing at the end of 1951.
The national
championships omnium is decided over four events, the Points
Race, Scratch
Race, Elimination
Race and 200m Time Trial (the
World Championship and Olympic format also includes individual Prusuit and 1000m Time Trial).
He did and now, following a season - opening performance of 6.63 in France at the end of last month — his first
race since June — the 2014
world indoor champion has every intention of being in contention to find out what it feels like to win at a major
championships in front of a home crowd in Birmingham in a few weeks» time.