Sentences with phrase «from racing championships»

Although great news for Formula E, it has resulted in the withdrawal of these iconic brands from racing championships such as WEC and DTM.

It was no different this April Fool's Day for the motorsport world, with plenty of hilarious and cool jokes from racing championships, teams and tracks.

Not exact matches

Here are all of the incidents from the 12 Hour race and its support championships.

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.

From that came the implementation of a three - stage format that incentivizes drivers with bonus points that apply toward the championship so that they push hard from green flag to checkered flag in every regular season rFrom that came the implementation of a three - stage format that incentivizes drivers with bonus points that apply toward the championship so that they push hard from green flag to checkered flag in every regular season rfrom green flag to checkered flag in every regular season race.

Whilst Arnoux was a race winner and qualifying beast (he took 18 poles, more than any other driver without a championship), Cheever never quite managed to reach the top step during his time in F1 from 1978 to 1989.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was everything a driver could want from a racing car and it dominated the 1990 championship.

Whilst FOM seem intent on removing interesting F1 footage from any year, YouTube is chock full of classic races from other championships — some well known, some not so well known.

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?

He was on course for a podium but a tyre failure eight laps from the end put him out of the race, whilst Michael went on to finish second, securing world championship number seven in the process.

Bruni's raced in championships across the world, from the American Le Mans Series to Super GT, FIA WEC and GT Asia.

Meanwhile Jenson Button seemed to have sobered up enough from his Abu Dhabi bender and got to sample a GT500 - spec Honda NSX, which will no doubt add to the speculation that he'll be racing in the popular Japanese championship in 2017.

Simon Pagenaud and Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports made the giant leap from weekly contenders to annual race winners in 2013 and may have established themselves as one of the championship favorites ahead of next season.

There are plenty of things to look out for, from teams and drivers and in their final race and championships to be decided.

In addition, having led from start to finish in the 100 - milers at Milwaukee and Langhorne, and for all 300 miles at Atlanta, Andretti has now run in front for 500 consecutive miles of championship races.

Neel Jani joined Dragon Racing Formula E team for the championship's fourth season following Porsche's LMP1 departure from the World Endurance Championship.

Things would probably have been ok had they not lost 10th place in the constructors» championship at the penultimate race in Brazil, but apparently the loss of prize money resulting from it meant their chances became significantly slimmer.

Trailing Houston's Bob Mosbacher going into the final race, Skipper BUDDY FRIEDRICHS JR., a 27 - year - old stockbroker from New Orleans, retained his North American Dragon Class championship when he finished the four - race series in Toronto with three firsts and a sixth.

Instead, he went on to completely dominate the race, leading every lap from pole and setting fastest lap to give him both the lead in the championship and the only grand slam of his career.

Stoffel Vandoorne raised plenty of eyebrows when he won the opening round of the 2013 FR3.5 season from pole - his first race in the championship.

Hamilton was fine, but he'll be starting the race from pretty much right at the back, much to the annoyance of Sebastian Vettel, who probably wished he'd made an error like that a couple of race ago when he still had a chance of the championship.

Whilst all eyes were on the dramatic, tyre - bursting conclusion to the championship up at the front, Tambay came home in last place, 12 laps down and unclassified - not a fitting end from the former Ferrari driver and two - time race winner.

Last year Stoffel didn't even make the start in Bahrain, he was pulling the car into the pitlane so this year from two races four cars to the checkered flag and third in the constructors» championship.

Yarborough, who has decided to enter fewer races from now on, knew that this had been his last real chance for a fourth championship.

Aside from during the pit stops, Schumacher led the whole race and took the win - a record - equalling (at the time) 51st - and his fourth world championship with four race left to go in the season.

Hulkenberg was a strong sixth - not only Renault's best race for quite a while, but also enough for the team to pinch sixth in the constructors» championship from Toro Rosso.

Damon Hill had a pretty awful season in 1995 and had lost the championship to Michael Schumacher by the Pacific GP, three races from the end of the season.

Hill (who was his closest championship challenger heading into the race) took pole but his car wouldn't start on the parade lap and he had to start from the back, all - but guaranteeing Prost the championship as long as he got to the finish ahead of his teammate.

It draws together some of the biggest names and teams from various Porsche Carrera Cup championships around the world for one massive 61 - car race.

Alfa Romeo has a long history in F1, with Giuseppe Farina and Juan Manuel Fangio winning the first two world championships driving Alfas before the company withdrew from grand prix racing at the end of 1951.

The 17 - year - old was half a lap away from winning the Formula 3 championship at the Red Bull Ring on Sunday when he was taken out of the race, delaying his crowning until the final round in Hockenheim.

A new partnership with BMW brought race wins but not championships, and since the two split at the end of 2005 Williams has struggled to escape from the midfield.

Massa arrived in F1 from Italian F3000 where he won the 2001 championship with six wins from eight races.

The top - scoring player in the 2018 championship will win this eye - catching pink drinks table made from a race - used Sahara Force India Wheel Rim (drivers not included).

Hamilton now only needs to collect 10 more points than Vettel, and two more than Rosberg, from the remaining four races to defend his championship.

Archibald, who will also return from the championships with a silver medal from the women's elimination race, took her third consecutive individual pursuit victory at these championships.

Last October it was announced that the Virgin Money London Marathon would host the world marathon event ahead of the championships taking place in Doha, Qatar, from October 22 - 31 as the spring date better suited the race schedules of the leading marathon racers.

• «Back in the day»:) Competed at four Canadian National championships while on the Ontario provincial snowboard race team from 2002 - 2005.

After competing and setting my best times at Ironman Canada then 70.3 world championships then Ironman Hawaii for my fifth time followed by another marathon then, a 50k trail race while running my own fitness business with crazy hours... my body from the inside out was exhausted.

Ranging from vehicle production exterior designs, to show car exterior and interior designs, to championship winning race car designs.

NEW «CHAMPIONSHIPS» MODE AND GAMEPLAY TYPES: Championship mode allows players to experience unique race events following different rules and structures from the official Championship in both modern and classic cars.

In Lipsitz's movie, air guitarists of all ages, races and creeds strum their way from regional competitions (in Salem, Ore., a 6 - year - old girl jams to Nirvana's «Smells Like Teen Spirit» against a 21 - year - old bad boy) to the U.S. championships to the world contest, held in Finland.

Instead of working your way through different racing tiers over the course of several calendar years, all the championship series in Career are unlocked from the start as long as you can afford the cars necessary to race in them.