Sentences with phrase «first started racing»

Ben Dijkstra first started racing at the age of four and, by the time he was 10, the Leicester - born triathlete was breaking national age records.

Dillon even had to remind his grandfather of that when Childress suggested to his grandson about picking a different number when he first started racing.

Not exact matches

Before the rat race starts, write these questions down first thing in the morning:

Now that the GT is starting to be delivered to owners — only 250 in the first year of production — we can see what race - car elements influenced and in many ways determined the design.

Former cabinet minister Kellie Leitch has become the first official candidate to replace Stephen Harper as Conservative leader, sounding the starting gun on a race that will stretch over 13 months.

We all know that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the first to start the Artificial Intelligence, aka AI, race with Siri.

If you want to start blaming people for race being a factor... blame the little sh!ts that were robbing people in the first place.

From the starting point of the revelation of the nature and will of God that has come to man through Christ, she has dealt first with the biblical foundations of Christian ethics followed by their application to specific contemporary problems, including self and society, marriage, economic life, race, the state, war, peace and others.

I'd love to know in what areas you see that, because while I certainly agree that in many ways the human race differs from the Bible's standards of right and wrong, I really don't see that there's been much change over the last couple thousand years — certainly not since the time of the Greeks, when we start having our first comprehensive records outside the Bible.

With a fast start vital in Game 3, O'Neal (10 points in the first quarter, four in the second) and Bryant (nine and six) neatly divided the load in the first half, when the Lakers raced out to a lead they would never relinquish.

Brad Keselowski started the day on the right side of the playoff bubble, then quickly fell on the wrong side once the race began as Hamlin's dominating performance through the first two stages erased the 19 - point advantage Keselowski held.

Neck - craning, stand - up crowd of 42,000 follows pacers» approach to starting line (above) for first race in Jug Day card.

Tyrrell started designing its own car, but whilst that was being built had to make do with a March 701 chassis for the first 10 races of the year.

Kimi Raikkonen and Max Verstappen won't have to worry about Sebastian Vettel chopping across in front of them at the start of tomorrow's race, but two weeks on from that first corner clash in Singapore it's seems to still be fresh in their memory.

Drivers will also be allowed to do some practice starts at the end of the Friday free practice sessions this weekend (which isn't normally the case at Albert Park) so that the first time they experience the new setup isn't just as the race is about to start.

Mansell had started the race from pole position — his first ever in F1 — and led the first half of it race before his tyres went off and he fell back before eventually having to pit.

Nadine started the day by taking the 100m, 200m and 400m titles, but the moment of the match was her anchor leg in the 4x400m relay, where she caught and overtook the Cambridge athlete in the final metres of the last race of the day, bringing the match victory back to Oxford for the first time in four years.

Each has had great participation, including a whole host of Novice crews racing for the first time since starting rowing, just 7 weeks ago.

Fernando is pretty good at race starts, too, and the massive long run down to the first braking zone would give him every chance to gain fistfuls of positions if he qualified badly or something.

He started with midget cars in France, quickly graduated to a 2 - liter Maserati, which he first raced at Le Mans in 1954.

The England international raced through on goal and delicately chipped Lewis to bag a goal on his first start in 265 days.

Starting with the Coca - Cola 600 — Busch's first race back — a JGR driver would win nine of the next 15 races.

That belief was compounded when Patrick, starting at the rear of the field after a pre-race engine change, brought out the day's first caution just 15 laps into the race.

It's just seemed a bit of a reckless decision to decide to put the car on blocks and start pulling pieces out of the engine when the first races were looming.

Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.

Still, it could be argued that actually Rodgers really benefitted from a specific set of circumstances that year — Luis Suarez being at the very top of his game (something that would have happened under any manager), Daniel Sturridge staying relatively injury free (clearly a bit of a one - off, based on his record since), and above all a lack of real competition elsewhere: Chelsea were in transition and poor in their first season with Jose Mourinho back at the helm, Arsenal imploded as they usually do after a fine start, and Manchester United were nowhere to be seen in terms of the title race with David Moyes» disastrous reign seeing them finish 7th and struggling to cope with the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson.

Starting the Chase in 11th, Keselowski has recorded two top - fives in the first two races and has once again shown he is a contender for the championship.

Red Bull Racing's 2017 didn't get off to the best of starts when the new RB13 broke down just moments into the first pre-season test in Spain.

He helped to kick start the rear - engined racing revolution in motorsport, winning two titles with the Cooper team to become Australia's first Formula 1 World Champion.

He started down in 16th due to grid penalties and had a slower start to the race compared to Verstappen, but started picking off places through the first stint.

The first four laps of the race were spent behind the safety car following several incidents, and when it came in Schumacher (who had dropped from second to fourth at the start) was struggling.

Eric van de Poele and Giovanna Amati started the season with the team, but it's most famous for giving Damon Hill his F1 debut when he replaced Amati after the first three races.

Whether it's pole position or P2 on the grid, it's the best place to start the race — with a clear view in front of you, and a chance to enter the first corner in the lead.

First practice for Fernando Alonso's home race in Spain didn't get off to the best start at the Circuit de Barcelona - Catalunya...

J.P. Grant, whose Race On, LLC firm contacted promoters ASM to run the event starting in 2012, first announced the cancellation of the event on Friday with the Baltimore Business Journal.

By the end of the session he'd dropped to seventh after some of the later runners went faster, but that's still good enough to see him go through to the «Fast Nine» shootout on Sunday, which also guarantees him a starting spot on the first three rows for next week's race.

IndyCar's first trip to an oval race didn't get off to the cleanest of starts after a multi-car shunt

The first three laps took place behind the safety car, and by the end of lap four (the first racing lap) Schumacher was running where he started - in third place.

Jos was renowned for being good at the start (in 1996 he gained places in every race but one) and he shot up from a season - best grid slot of 14th to 10th by the end of the first lap.

It was the first start for His Eminence as a3 - year - old, and the colt won only one other race all year.

F1 rules say if that happens a driver isn't allowed to regain their grid position once they've passed the first safety car line and must start the race from the pits.

McLaren has suffered a tough start to the 2017 F1 season, with a whole host of issues in pre-season testing and poor pace at the first race in Australia.

He started sixth and spent the first part of the race well inside the top 10 but smoke pouring out of his car signalled his retirement on lap 15.

One cause for conversation was Polly's Rumor, an obscurely bred 2 - year - old chestnut filly who, in her first start, won a maiden race by 21 lengths and smoked over the 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:03 [1/5](and in her second race, over six furlongs, won by nine lengths in 1:10).

Waiting motorcyclists prepare for start of 100 - mile race in which Chuck Minert finished first at Catalina Grand Prix.

Foyt's first 500 was in 1958, and of the 33 drivers who started that race he is the only one still active in big - time racing.

Last Sept. 9 a 5 - year - old import from Uruguay named Lebon made his first U.S. start in a $ 10,500 claiming race at Belmont.

As well as being outqualified by teammate Charles Leclerc for the first time this season (by almost half a second, too), Ericsson also finds himself starting last for tomorrow's race.

In the race he managed to avoid that massive pile - up after making a mega start to go from sixth to second by the first corner.

Hamilton enjoyed a remarkable start to his F1 career, with a third and four second - places coming from his first five races.