Sentences with phrase «eventual race winner»

Eventual race winner Kimi Raikkonen immediately got past and shot off down the road as Montoya's Williams closed in on the Ferrari.

Not exact matches

But in Canada, we were treated to a multi-stop race which saw Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber, Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button and eventual winner Lewis Hamilton all challenge for victory.

Hamilton and Kubica were both in their second F1 seasons (second full one for Kubica, after he did a few races in 2006) when they finished P1 and P2 at the 2008 Monaco GP, a wet race where the eventual winner recovered from an early puncture after a glance with the wall.

But when racing resumed he got shuffled out of the draft as several drivers went by him, including eventual winner Jamie McMurray.

Rarer still are those races where the eventual winner hasn't actually been in the lead at all until the lap where it really matters - the final one.

The race is 1 and 3/16 miles on dirt and last year was won by eventual Triple Crown winner American Pharoah.

He was on the podium at Spa and in Portugal raised eyebrows when he qualified third, finished second and spent much of the race putting pressure on eventual winner Alain Prost.

In the 7 December 2008 presidential race, in the first round he received more votes than John Atta Mills, the eventual winner.

Organizer's lead investor and biggest supporter is former Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly, who lost the 2010 Democratic primary race for state attorney general to the eventual winner, and potential gubernatorial candidate, Kamala Harris.

Mr Hain eventually finished fifth in the six - way race, outspending the eventual winner Harriet Harman by four-fold.

Our poll is like a grainy photograph of the Grand National with half the race still to run: we have a broad sense of the state of play but can not be sure of the eventual winner.

This past fall, the runoffs for two races of City Comptroller and Public Advocate saw quite low turnout and the eventual winners were the two candidates who had garnered the most in the first round (John Liu and Bill de Blasio, respectively).

That would set up a crowded race with Gallo and Clement running, and dividing the Democratic field, and the eventual winner of the Republican primary competing with Conservative Party candidate Richard Cahill Jr. for GOP votes.

And the crowded competition for Gentile's seat is almost all men, including the most likely winners, led by Justin Brannan (this Southern Brooklyn race is actually one where a Republican could win the seat, though Brannan, a Democrat, is generally seen as having the upper hand, both in a tough primary and the eventual competitive general).

But if we're using history as our guide — and at this point in the race, history is our clearest indicator — we know that the eventual Best Picture winner may have already debuted.