Sentences with phrase «just race position»

Not exact matches

So you could reasonably assume that the human race would just curl up in the fetal position and suck our thumbs all day.

But Khodorkovsky has challenged her to clarify her positions first, to prove she's not just a superficial effort to inject controversy and glamour into the largely tension - free race.

With the president's party controlling the Senate by just one seat and the Senate holding not only the power to pass or block legislation, but also to confirm nominees to federal positions, including the Supreme Court, the race in Arizona to replace the departing Sen. Jeff Flake is one of several to watch this fall.

The starting gun had just gone off in the race to cyberspace, and as he watched the throngs jockeying for position, Barrelet wondered, «How do all these people measure returns on their investment?»

Hamilton earned an advantage in qualifying and will start the race from pole position, with Rosberg just behind him on the grid and both Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel from Red Bull tucked in behind.

Driven by a plethora of Italian F1 stars such as Michele Alboreto, Alessandro Nannini, Ricardo Patrese and Teo Fabi, the Ferrari - powered cars took pole positions here, there and everywhere in the WSC, but were just too fragile to get to the end of the race.

He tried again at the next race in Brazil and was on pole again, meaning there was just a 14 - day interval between his first and second pole positions.

Cheap, not spectacular, within the first 100 in the world in his position, unwanted by club, won't make pulse racing, won't see massive shirt sales, but... just okay.

Glory days... the race to the middle has officially begun... BTW when did you write this ridiculous article, obviously some time ago based on the facts provided... maybe you were just waiting for the perfect moment to enlighten us about how this well - meaning but fairly average player refused to move on so that we have another body on the bench and no impetus to upgrade in a position of great need... praise the lord... this is why this club is stuck in the proverbial «no man's land» of the soccer landscape, not willing to pay what it takes to compete for real, but unwilling to «rebuild» for fear of losing out on the millions to be made from being just good enough

However, Glock's strategy of staying on a wet circuit with slicks stopped working just a bit too soon for Massa's sake, and Hamilton was able to regain the position he needed to take the title - on the last corner of the last lap of the last race of the season.

Not just one of Newey's best designs, but also one of the most iconic cars in F1 history, the FW14B dominated the 1992 season and the FW14 and FW14B won a combined 17 races and secured 21 pole positions.

There was just three points between championship rivals Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix and with Vettel on pole position, it looked like the championship was going to go right down to the final race.

Third - placed Liverpool can gain more ground in the race for a Champions League place, whilst Southampton are still precariously positioned just two points above the relegation zone despite a first league win since November last week at West Brom.

Just to take a friendly poke at Verstappen, he (currently) has the same number of race wins as Maldonado, and fewer pole positions.

And in early June, just four days before the Belmont Stakes — one of the biggest days in racing — Bonomo steps down from his position at NYRA, and presumably starts cooperating with the Feds against Dean and Adam.

The polls were predicting a tight race between Labour and the Conservatives for second place, although most commentators believed that Labour would just about hold on to its position as the largest opposition party.

The local race for Congress pits a relative newcomer to the Hudson Valley with deep pockets and a progressive agenda who's battling the «carpetbagger» label against an incumbent who's positioned himself as a bipartisan bridge - builder, but who critics call just another vote in an increasingly radicalized Republican House caucus.

This race just got very personal for Davis, who is running for the position on the Libertarian ticket.

I think Sheldon summed this film up perfectly when he says that «Things We Lost in the Fire is a stunning film that does more than just position Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro in the Oscar ® race.

Vehicles span not just racing disciplines but generations too, and with the implementation of multi-class racing, you can have open - wheelers competing for positions against classic gran tourers and modern GT3 race cars.

The suspension allowed the car to run at the perfect height for both straights and corners, and Mansell and the FW14B just clicked: in his home race at Silverstone, the Brit's pole position time was a full 1.9 sec ahead of teammate Patrese's best, and he in turn was nearly eight tenths ahead of Ayrton Senna's McLaren.

The two drivers set about clawing back the deficit but it wasn't until the final round of pit stops — with just over an hour of the race left to run — that the tables turned back in their favour with a re-shuffling of positions after another flawlessly fast turnaround by the No. 4 pit crew led by Brian Hoye.

Despite running in the top three of the GT category for much of the race, and indeed leading the class on more than one occasion, it looked towards the end that a podium position for the No. 4 Corvette would be just out of reach.

In qualifying for tomorrow's four - hour Road Race Showcase at Road America, it was Jan Magnussen's turn to qualify the No. 4 Corvette C6.R and, despite being more than a second quicker than Olly's pole - winning lap at Road America in 2010, and six tenths of a second under the GT qualifying record set in 2008, he just missed out on pole position.

Although profiting from the misfortune of others is never a preferred method of gaining position, in racing you take what comes your way and Tommy was able to lead the race until the first of the four full course caution periods at 14 minutes into the 2 hour 45 minute race, despite the threat of some rain just before the start of the race and in the early laps.

The first stop, just after the 35 minute mark in the 2 hour 45 minute race, dropped them back to 15th position but Oliver likes nothing better than a challenge and set about clawing back positions on the leader board to as high as second place.

After strong qualifying efforts by Richard Westbrook in the # 67 Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT, who snagged pole position, and Dirk Werner in the # 25 BMW M6 just 0.086 seconds behind, both cars eventually succumbed to on - track incidents that dropped them down the finishing order.

It was just kind of a funny race the way the track position worked out.

When it is like that it is just very demoralizing and very frustrating that you can't have everybody in the class racing overall for all of the positions.

So, I just need to beat Holton, three positions in one race, and two in the other, and we land the Championship.»

Going just fast enough to maintain his third position gap, Ostella would end the race in P3 as he, von Moltke and M1 GT Racing would celebrate on the podium that afternoon.

Breeding racing Greyhounds is not just about raw speed; it takes smarts and coordination and heart to position themselves appropriately to win races.

Shift 2 Unleashed is nearing release and in an attempt to further detail the game, showing just how serious developer Slightly Mad Studios and publisher EA are about taking pole position in the genre, here's the latest trailer which might be the most dramatic take on a racing game we'll ever get to see.

Although I personally have gotten beyond frustrated with the amount of fuel and tire management involved in modern F1 racing I can't deny that while playing F1 2016 it does bring some excitement to otherwise potentially mundane moments, such as when you're holding a good position but are mostly just circulating with nobody around you.

A further form of XP is reputation points which are earned by the race weekend position, achieving team objectives, winning the rider challenge, achieving a holeshot in races and the difficulty of your chosen game options which is all important as the higher amount of reputation points accumulated will result in an increase in the interest received by sponsors and teams during Career mode, therefore you have to earn the next step up with better results rather than it just being handed to you automatically for completing a season.

The career progression is well balanced and easily attainable for most players — you earn at least one star just by participating in a race, regardless of finishing position.

It is a surprise to me that Jones takes this ignorant position, because his discussions about race in the 1990s and early 2000s appealed to me, and influenced my thinking not just of genetics and the environment (he was very critical of George Monbiot, for instance), it also struck me as a criticism of the naturalised view of the social world — i.e. determinism and scientism.

There just aren't enough positions on the top court to make it sensible to treat the issues of gender and race with an equality policy alone.

F Zero is the basic racing game, Yoshi Fruit Cart is just like Animal Crossing's Sweet Day, but moderated, and Octopus Dance I believe involves an Octopus (Gamepad) doing positions and you have to use buttons to copy him (Wimoters)

When Salesky left the Google self - driving project in September, the race to deploy autonomous vehicles had already shifted into overdrive, with automakers, tech companies, and startups jockeying for a leading position — a battle that would have seemed ridiculous just three years before.