Sentences with phrase «first road race»

He was an entrant in the first road race at Watkins Glen in 1948.

It was his first road race ever, I'm so proud of him!!!

Six months after my first road race ever, and before my child's first birthday, I ran a half - marathon.

A friend told him once that an endurance race was a series of snapshots, and for Collins those images began with a gentle push from his grandfather to sign up for his first road race.

It was his first road race ever, I'm so proud of him!!!

«The Series» commitment to environmental stewardship matches our own, as Circuit of The Americas has joined the Green Sports Alliance and is the first road racing facility to join the alliance.

Not exact matches

His mother, Connie Carpenter, won the first women's Olympic road race, at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.

This wasn't the first time Webber has driven racing machinery on public roads, having done a demo run across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a Williams F1 car in 2005, and across the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne for Red Bull in 2011.

The first ever Olympic road race in 1896 completed two circuits of the marathon route, measuring 87 km in total, while at London 2012 Mark Cavendish and co raced 250 km around London and Surrey.

On the road to victory today Don't Touch became the the first three - year - old horse to win this race in 13 years.

Dani Rowe secured a bronze medal in the Women's road race as she represented Wales for the first time.

Around 5500 runners are expected to be involved in 30 one - mile races on the roads around St James's Park in central London at the Westminster event which comes just over two weeks after the 60th anniversary of Roger Bannister's first event sub-four-minute mile at Oxford's Iffley Road track.

«The Birmingham Diamond League will be my first big European track race of 2016 and a great platform to test myself on the road to the Olympic Games in Rio — the ultimate competition for every athlete,» said Farah, who is yet to confirm the distance he will be racing in Birmingham.

On the road to try to win the gubernatorial race, Cynthia Nixon made her first campaign visit to Syracuse.

On Saturday morning, I headed out to the first New York Road Runners race of the season.

And of course we watched the Olympics - the women's gymnastics team killed it in the first round and the bike road race was tough to watch as USA came in 4th after having the lead for most of the way.

The first section of the film, in which Charley's life seems to be on an upswing, is filled with quiet moments of idyllic and even romantic seclusion — Charley working with the horses, cleaning up after them, taking scenic road trips with Del, watching the horses race, taking in the starry sky while lying the bed of Del's pickup truck.

Hit the dirt as the ultimate off - road racing game experience, Colin McRae Rally, comes to iPhone and iPad for the very first time.

Today's game, Pure from Disney is their first go at an off - road ATV racing game and ever since we started seeing coverage on the game, I for one have been very excited to see what was going to come from it.

In this off - road racing game you can choose one of ten characters and use mines and rockets to take out your oppenents and be the first across the finish line.

Parzival's first challenge is a road race in which participants have to dodge various lethal obstacles including rampaging T. Rexes and a Kong - like ape, while contestants killed in mid-race explode in showers of gold coins.

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Some consider it the first organized off - road race in the U.S., since it was three years later that desert racing officially began on a regular basis, with the 1967 NORRA Mexican 1000 in Baja.

However, by the time we finished in first place, I was hooked on the off - road racing constellation: intense competition, remarkable friendship, and high - speed motoring over incredibly diverse terrain through some of the planet's most picturesque and hauntingly beautiful locations.

It is the first road car ever to be developed by Citroën Racing (the same group of people that make Loeb's daily driver) and it looks absolutely fantastic.

Ferrari's 250 series of cars was the first indication of volume production from the brand, with race cars and road cars sharing many chassis and engine components and more body styles on offer than ever before.

«I'm looking forward to seeing a full grid of I - Pace race cars in late 2018, soon after the first I - Pace road car hits the streets in Europe,» said Mäuser, adding, «Ultimately, this innovative series will serve to enhance the technology used in our future electric vehicles and benefit our customers.

I was a neophyte in the world of off - road motorsports then, and as we started out on our 12 - hour - long stint over a swath of body - jarring «woops,» I swore it would be my first and last such race.

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Colin Peck presents the results of his researches into the genre / The Ballot 2LS, part six — Our Publisher continues his review of this landmark Vintage car by describing the example once owned by Ian Connell and now in George Wingard's collection in Eugene, Oregon / Auto - biography: Brian Sewell — In the latest instalment of his series interviewing personalities from the old - car world, Matthew Bell visits art critic Brian Sewell / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part one — In the first of a three - part series recounting the long careers of these famous racing cars, Simon Moore describes their origins and works competition histories / Back on the Road — Michael Ware visits the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands, to inspect a rare and recently restored 1914 Briton 10/12

Austins in China «Austin wins the first motor Race in China» by John Dymond / Our Swallow migrates — The story of the Swallows» migration to Australia / On the Road Today — The first Phantom II Continental / Yorkshire Relish — Part two of this tale by A. B. Demaus / War and Peace — The Societe Manufacturiere D'Armes of St. Etienne by Michael Worthington - Williams / Ardingly 1986 — The 17th Historic Vehicle Spectacular.

The showdown is set at the new Motorland race circuit near Barcelona, Spain, and the participants include the Ford F - 150 Raptor, Focus RS, Mustang GT, Mustang Shelby GT350R, GT road car, GT race car, the outgoing Fiesta ST, and the all - new Fiesta ST with the EcoBoost three - cylinder that isn't available in the U.S. Because it would be easy to predict the outcome of a battle between a 200 - hp Fiesta ST and Ford GT race car making more than 600 hp, each car gets a staggered start, with the heavier, less agile Raptor getting to go first and the GT Le Mans car relegated to the back of the pack.

«The car should be fast, but Le Mans is a cruel place, and Ford wants us to rock the first time we're there,» says Larry Holt, vice president of engineering at Multimatic, which developed the race car and will build the road cars.

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Although Ford conceived of the new GT as a road car first, the decision to build a race - spec version was made almost immediately, and both versions were developed in parallel.

Yet for all of Audi's performance credentials established during more than 35 years of professional competition in rallying and road racing and by its first Rennsport production car, the 1994 RS2, the marque has suffered a bit in terms of its messaging.

In this month's cover story, Back on Track: Leyland - Thomas No 1, David Burgess-Wise tells the story of Parry Thomas's first Leyland Eight racer, destroyed in a war - time air raid, and the recent re-creation built around a collection of original parts / Steve Welsh reports from this year's Goodwood Revival, the world's biggest historic motor racing event, with highlights including an all - Ferrari Lavant Cup and a tribute to Bruce McLaren / Inspired by a 1956 Motor Sport article, Justin Marozzi takes his Bristol 405 on a 1000 - mile round trip to the Lake District in his article Filton Fashion / We bring together another group of unrestored cars and lead them on a scenic tour round Rutland, Britain's smallest county, for The Oily Rag Run / In Woodrow: Stockport's sporting cyclecar, John Warburton samples the sole surviving example of this unusual light car built by a hat manufacturer in the north of England / Jörg Sierks visits two world - class concours for An Elegant Weekend, held on opposite sides of the English Channel / Edwardians to Ostend — Stefan Marjoram took his sketchbook and camera on an exciting Continental road trip and shares his experiences / In this month's Back on the Road, Michael Ware visits a 1921 Morris Oxford Sproad trip and shares his experiences / In this month's Back on the Road, Michael Ware visits a 1921 Morris Oxford SpRoad, Michael Ware visits a 1921 Morris Oxford Sports

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«This year Porsche will become the first manufacturer to create the central display at the Festival for the third time, underlining the huge contribution from this iconic manufacturer of world - beating racing cars and road cars.»

Jock Manby - Colegrave — Jonathan Wood chronicles the life and 1930s racing career of Jock Manby - Colegrave, whose impressive stable of road and racing cars embraced Aston Martins, supercharged 4 1/2 Litre Bentley, MG K3, Squire and ERA / Fiat's 8001 Turbina — If a country's character defines its cars, perhaps it was inevitable that Italy's first — and so far only — turbine - powered automobile should be a striking high - performance sports car.

At first, this division is difficult to see — the pair of beautiful 1930s 8C roadsters look much like their racing counterparts a few storeys below, but Alfa's road car progression is wonderfully illustrated through the 6Cs aimed at wealthy owners, to the 1900s, Giuliettas and Giulias that gave the brand a more mass - market appeal.

For those who like huge SUVs with dubious styling there was the X7 Concept to take in but we were more excited by our first glimpse of the BMW M8 production car, with the road - car based M8 GTE racing making an official debut.

Eight years before, he began his F1 career, Hill won the first feature in the Pebble Beach Road Races, in the fall of 1950, driving a Jaguar XK 120.

Prepping the one - off sports car that won the first big road race on the West Coast.

There's a slim argument that the 2014 Z / 28 picks up the thread of the road - race specials of the late 1960s, but that first - generation car was defined by its high - revving, 302 - cubic - inch engine.

A member of the first American team, with co-driver Phil Walters, to win an international road race in an American car — a Hemi - powered Cunningham C - 4R at Sebring in 1953.

Although designed primarily to take on BMW's rivals on the race track, amongst them Mercedes - Benz's rally car turned DTM racer, the Cosworth - powered 190E 2.3 - 16, the public would get to experience the M3 too, as the Group A rules of the time specified that 5000 road - legal examples of the car would have to be built in its first 12 months for it to be homologated for competition use.

After being badly damaged in a WWII bombing raid Oulton Hall and the parkland became government property and in the early fifties a local motor club, the Mid-Cheshire Car Club, began using what was left of the original park roads as a circuit, with the first race taking place in 1953.

Two General Motors engineers will once again race a Buick Regal GS in a 90 - mile Nevada road rally this month, after coming first in class last year.