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The # 23 Nissan GT - R driven by Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr won the qualifying and the championship race at Paul Ricard, at the seventh r...

With just one more race left before the championship race at Homestead - Miami there couldn't be more on the line for the drivers wanting a spot at a chance to win a championships.

F1 says the race weekend set a new outright record for a championship race at the famous Spa track, with an attendance figure increase of 11.8 % compared to last year.

He fell 33 points behind leader Jeff Gordon and 28 behind Kenseth, who is in the fourth and final transfer position to the championship race at Homestead - Miami Speedway.

The Chase field will be trimmed from eight drivers to just four after the next three races, with Texas and Phoenix following Martinsville, before the final championship race at Homesead in Miami on Nov. 22.

Not exact matches

So with the final race of the season coming up this weekend at Homestead — and the championship on the line for Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, Joey Logano, and Kyle Busch — this seemed like the perfect time to talk to Brian.

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.

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.

If Young Bill Buchan Jr., the Seattle skipper who piloted a Luders 16 to a clear - cut victory in the annual North American Sailing championships, remains anything close to the coolheaded, calm - browed competitor he was this last week at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, it is going to take some doing to beat him in future races.

Now, a gritty effort accompanied by some timely fortune keeps him eligible to race for a second championship at Homestead.

Stewart won three races and challenged for the championship, whilst Johnny Servoz - Gavin also took a podium for the team at Monza.

Giuseppe Farina won the first championship race in F1 at Silverstone on 13 May in 1950 and went on to claim the drivers» title too.

With the Pole only securing a reserve role at Williams this year, his schedule potentially looked open for him to compete in some other championship to keep his race skills sharp.

A quick look at the stats for the Brabham BT26 tells you that it was on pole five times, won two races and finished runner - up in the 1969 constructors» championship.

The championship leader at the end of the normal 26 - race section will be awarded «regular season champion» and get 15 additional playoff points, with the rest of the top 10 also getting them on a 10 (for second) to one (for 10th) playoff point basis.

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.

It wasn't enough to win the title, but he set up his championship - winning season in 2016 by taking victory at the first four races, giving him a seven - race run of P1 finishes.

Clark's second and final F1 championship was won in style back in 1965 with a five - race run of victories, from the sport's trip to Spa in Belgium to the German GP at the Nurburgring.

Felipe Massa did everything right in the final race at Interlagos as he tried to win the 2008 championship and thanks to a late rain shower, a Sebastian Vettel overtake, and a strategy gamble by Toyota, it almost worked out for him.

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.

At different times in that race, three drivers held the championship lead.

NASCAR's annual postseason knockout format will again see four drivers eliminated every three races, while a win automatically advances a participant to the next bracket, culminating in a one race best - finish - wins - the - championship finale Nov. 19 at Homestead - Miami Speedway.

But Larson's championship hopes ended unexpectedly in the second round during Sunday's knockout race at Kansas Speedway.

He used that formula last year, winning a second round race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, a third round race at Martinsville Speedway and the championship finale at Homestead - Miami Speedway.

Well, only once in the Chase era has a driver finished worse than sixth in the fall race at Loudon and gone on to win the championship (Johnson, in 2006, when he came in 39th at the 1.058 - mile oval).

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.

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.

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.

A revenged - minded Matt Kenseth appeared to deliberately wreck race - leader Joey Logano during Sunday's championship playoff race at Martinsville Speedway.

The other five playoff drivers can qualify for the best - finish - wins - the - championship finale by winning next week's elimination race at Phoenix Raceway.

Kimi Raikkonen won the first race — the first time Lotus had done so since 2006 and 1978 and at this point in the season the entire field were separated by just 25 points in the championship — the closest title battle since Australia 2012.

Twice he came through in must - win situations; the first in the penultimate race at Phoenix to qualify for the championship round, then in the finale when he charged from 12th to the lead over the final 15 laps.

Formula 2 and Formula 3000 continued to race there for decades, and today the European F3 championship has a round at Pau.

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.

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.

The 333 SP was powered by a 4 - litre V12 derived from Ferrari's F1 powerplant at the time and it won although it won pretty much every championship and every major sportscar race, it never really did that well at Le Mans.

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?

We've got a chance to course - correct with 2021, looks like, but we need to do that now because I think Formula 1 will be much more entertaining and therefore more valuable to all of us if we have four, five, six teams winning races, that have a chance at a championship.»

Though all the attention in the coming weeks will be rightfully focused on the race for state championships, it would be unfair to ignore the quality Division VI girls teams, which will conclude their season at the end of the NorCal playoffs.

A win, and with it a chance at a second championship, were all within Matt Kenseth's grasp, all he needed to do was get a good, clean restart with two laps remaining in Sunday's playoff elimination race at Phoenix International Raceway.

Two races later, on May 9, he earned his first championship points with a fifth at Spain.

While it may take a few races for Montoya to get re-acclimated to open - wheel racing, Penske has stacked the deck in his efforts to both return to Victory Lane at Indianapolis and pick up the team's first championship since 2006 (Sam Hornish Jr..)

«We said at the beginning of the championship that we want to win the league so we will join the title race.

Larson was the only non-Toyota driver who's proved capable of keeping pace with Truex, and his ability to run the high groove gave him the distinct advantage in the championship - deciding race at Homestead - Miami Speedway.

But even under the most pessimistic of perspectives, it's hard to foresee a scenario where at least one Penske driver doesn't win multiple races and contend for the season championship.

But Castroneves only won once — at Texas — and once the consistency ran out, so did his championship hopes with mechanical failures in both races at Reliant Park.

Lewis Hamilton entered his home race at Silverstone with a 20 - point deficit to championship leader Sebastian Vettel, after a tough recovery drive in Austria.

Only unlike Senna and Schumacher he didn't do it in a selfish attempt to win a championship, oh no - he did it so that 1) the team wouldn't fire him at the end of the year and 2) the ensuing safety car would put team mate Fernando Alonso on the perfect strategy, allowing him to win the race.

Whereas Truex has never won a championship nor a race at Homestead, Busch has accomplished both.