Sentences with phrase «championship racing win»

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He's won the Pan American Games, the U.S. mountain bike championships, is a twelve - time member of the national team... Jeremiah is to mountain bike racing what an NBA All - Star is to basketball.

I knew I wanted to drive for a race team that can win races and win championships.

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).

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

Freydis Leaf, 32 - year - old brunette six - footer from Kensington, England, is the first woman ever to win the British air - racing championship.

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.

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.

Since his few races for Manor in 2015 Rossi ended up making a name for himself in IndyCar, winning the 2016 Indy 500 as a rookie and establishing himself as one of the championship's most talented young drivers.

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.

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.

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.

In winning his 17th consecutive road race over the last seven months, Bill Rodgers discovered that the Diet Pepsi 10,000 - meter national championship hit the spot

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.

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!)

He was still leading the championship heading in the the final round in Fuji, but the race was so wet that he couldn't see properly as a result of his burns and withdrew from the race, allowing Hunt to finish third and win the title.

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.

Heinz - Harald Frentzen won two races and surprisingly managed to challenge Mika Hakkinen and Eddie Irvine for the championship, eventually finishing third.

Up until the mid-2000s, Alberto Ascari had been the man to beat with his seven - race victory streak across the 1952 and 1953 seasons — both of which saw him take championship wins.

As well as going off and winning championships in both Formula E and WEC, he's still a reserve driver for Red Bull Racing, and Helmut Marko once said that of all the drivers that slipped off of Red Bull's ladder, Buemi was the best.

In 2007 Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was able to win six races and the championship in an incredibly closely - fought season with McLaren drivers Fernando Alonso and a rookie Lewis Hamilton.

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.

There's no arguing the awesomeness of the RB6 though - the team won nine races and both championships, with Sebastian Vettel winning a thrilling four - way title decider to become the youngest ever champion and kicking off four straight years of Red Bull dominance.

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.

In addition to his four CCWS championships, Bourdais is also the winner of 31 races in his Indy car career, tied with Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy for eighth on the all - time wins list.

Though racing for points might not be sexy, it goes a long way towards winning a championship.

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.

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.

Since then, the duo has formed one of the best driver - crew chief combinations in NASCAR history, winning six championships and 69 races.

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).

Barbara Britch, 15, a Nordic skier from Anchorage, Alaska, compiled the nation's fastest times for her class as she won all but one of her races this season and became the state's first U.S. titlist by taking the junior ladies» championship in Duluth.

NASCAR team won a combined 53 races, two driver championships and one Truck Series owner championship.

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.

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.

If this year's title race unfolds similarly to how the previous two finales did, to claim a career - first championship Edwards will need to win Homestead outright — not just be the highest finisher among the four title eligibles.

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.

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

A win Sunday would automatically advance Gordon to the Homestead championship race.

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.

Truex, who drives a Toyota, won four races and the regular - season points championship.

It certainly did the job too, winning all - but - one of the races in which it was entered and both the 1952 and 1953 championships for driver Alberto Ascari.

The Ferrari F2002 was totally dominant, Schumacher had won four of the first five races and he had a sizeable lead in the championship.

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.

Former F1 driver Tiago Monteiro won while Comini finished fourth in another half - points race, enough for him to win the championship.

Stewart became the first African - American to win a major motor racing championship in 2007 and followed up with another Supercross title in 2009.

Harvick initiated the pot - stirring when he adamantly dismissed the notion that Joe Gibbs Racing, which has won eight of the past 11 races, should be regarded as championship favorites.

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.

He won the Scottish Formula Ford title in 2007 and won several national championships before a lack of budget cut his stint in racing short, so he switched to sim racing.