Sentences with phrase «miles of a long race»

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The race, patterned after one that was last held in 1936 in stout cruising boats, not only is the longest ocean powerboat race ever scheduled (two laps of 220 miles each), but it crosses what may be the most treacherous expanse of water.

The iconic streets of Rome will host a Formula E race on April 14 next year with the circuit set to be the second longest on the calendar at 1.77 miles long.

Nearly always, racing on a mile track «moves a horse up,» that is, he will trot faster because of the longer straight a ways and the absence of two turns.

Not long ago in the tiny hamlet of Great Meadows, N.J. he performed a feat that is to drag racing what Roger Bannister's first four - minute mile is to track — he broke the sport's 200 - mph barrier twice in one afternoon.

The 1.5 - mile long race is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown, although history...

The 1.5 - mile long race is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown,...

The 1.5 - mile long race is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown, although history will not be made this year.

That's longer than the Nordschleife, but not quite as long as the combined Nurburgring circuit that the VLN races on (which is 16.1 miles), and way shorter than the Isle of Man TT course (37.7 miles).

On the last day of the long (234 days) New York season the 5 - year - old Damelo II (a son of Sculptor and grandson of Tenerani) won the two - mile Display Handicap, giving Argentina the distinction of having produced the winner of the longest handicap run anywhere in the U.S.. Two months earlier a nine - race Aqueduct card included 23 foreign - breds, 13 of them from Argentina.

As Charles Proctor, a member of the 1928 U.S. Olympic ski team, pointed out, although regulations called for a downhill race to be at least a mile long, «usually there was no terrain with a hill long enough to give a full mile.

They're all different too, from the steep banking and high speeds of Texas (where races frequently descend into absolute chaos) to the colossal Pocono superspeedway, and the shorter and sweet Iowa Speedway, which isn't even a mile long.

Scottish stars Andrew Butchart and Lynsey Sharp race over 1 mile and 500m respectively, while Lorraine Ugen is part of a GB trio in the long jump.

To mimic the conditions of the early universe, researchers sent electrically charged gold atoms racing along the collider's 2.4 - mile - long tunnel at near light speed, producing a fireball 150,000 times as hot as the center of the sun.

Protons and antiprotons (their antimatter twins) raced around the 3.9 - mile - long interior course and, upon colliding, released double the energy of the next - best particle smasher, generating explosions approaching a trillion electron volts, or TeVs (hence the name Tevatron).

One study on long - distance runners found that creatine supplementation reduced markers of muscle damage and inflammation after an 18 - mile race.

I run anywhere from 15 - 30 miles per week depending on the time of year, don't usually train for anything longer than a half marathon to 15 - 16 mile race.

Also based on a real story, Iron Will follows the courage of a young man who enters a 522 - mile - long dog sledding race in hopes of winning enough money to save the family farm.

Jimmie Johnson, who tallied the runner - up position in Cup last season did the same thing at the end of this particular race, finishing second in his second try at this long and perilous activity around Daytona's 3.56 - mile road / oval course.

But within an hour's drive of this handsome capital city lie both the delicious winding roads of neighboring country Austria and, within Slovakia itself, the Slovakia Ring, a relatively new and impressively gnarly 3.7 - mile race circuit composed of tortuous long - radius corners and straightaways that arrow far into the heat waves.

DragTimes, a Russian - based outfit, has released a cluster of new videos that includes tuned versions of the mighty Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, Nissan GT - R, and a Lamborghini Gallardo with a reported 1500 - hp going head - to - head in quarter mile and mile - long drag races.

Renamed «One Lap of America», the race challenges its participants to endure long transit drives of sometimes more than 700 miles daily to compete in timed trials on some of America's most iconic racetracks.

He's raced on both the previous 1.9 - mile circuit and the longer 2.4 - mile that was created in 1988 with the addition of the Andretti Hairpin and a section that races around the infield lake.

Roller Coaster Road Course to Challenge New - Generation Corvettes in the Long Run BRASELTON, Ga. — The GT2 version of the Corvette C6.R will face its sternest test yet at Road Atlanta on Saturday, September 26, in the 1,000 - mile / 10 - hour Petit Le Mans, the ninth round of the 10 - race American Le Mans Series.

At 550 miles, it's the longest off - road race in America, and the Four Wheeler Network will be riding along with the Hall Racing team in the third seat of its modified ZR2.

(LONG BEACH, Calif., April 19, 2013)-- Corvette Racing returns to where its championship season in 2012 earned its first of four victories: The 1.968 - mile, 11 - turn Long Beach Street CircLONG BEACH, Calif., April 19, 2013)-- Corvette Racing returns to where its championship season in 2012 earned its first of four victories: The 1.968 - mile, 11 - turn Long Beach Street CircLong Beach Street Circuit.

The aero work pays off down the long straight between turns one and two at the Area 27 race track in Oliver, British Columbia, which is a 250 - mile drive east of Vancouver.

«It's amazing when you think about how complex the race cars are that you can put two different drivers on a race track that's two and half miles long, and have them end up just 47 thousandths of a second apart.

This weekend's 1,000 - mile Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta will be the Corvette C5 - R's final long - distance event; drivers Max Papis and Jan Magnussen will rejoin their Chevrolet teammates to share driving responsibilities over the course of the 10 hours.

SALINAS, Calif. — For 60 years, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has hosted a variety of two and four - wheel machinery but Sunday's California 8 Hours GT contest will be the longest professional race in the prestigious history of the famed 2.238 - mile, 11 - turn road circuit.

Although rain on Sunday dampened the second day of a scheduled two - day test at the 2.54 - mile, 12 - turn road course, the Chevrolet team is well prepared for the long day of racing.

April 7, 2016 — There are more than four million miles of roads in the United States *, but next week, a 1.968 mile temporary race circuit through the streets of downtown Long Beach will be the focus of the racing world and a valuable test road for Michelin engineers.

There are particular strains of Alaskan Husky that are bred to race for very long distances - of up to 1,000 miles!

During long races, the dogs are capable of traveling 150 miles a day.

Both of these 40 mile races between Moloka`i and Oahu are known as the longest and most grueling sporting events in Hawaii.

The short, intense race day efforts and subsequent recovery make it difficult to get in any kind of long miles when they're racing every weekend, so the top folks sacrifice a race weekend (or two) to get in the big miles and hard efforts they need to peak for the most important days on their calendar.

San Ignacio Town to Banana Bank Lodge which is approximately 46 miles long; Banana Bank to Double Head Cabbage Village, the longest phase of the four days race, and consists of 60 grueling miles; Double Head Cabbage to Burrel Boom Village which is 36 miles long; and Burrel Boom to Belize City, which is the final and shortest stop, and is made up of 28 miles long and bring together more people than the beginning of the race.

The antithesis of religious pageantry, this cycling race is an excitement - filled, 140 - mile - long event that takes cyclists from Belize City to San Ignacio / Santa Elena and back.

Teams will set out early in the morning on the first day from San Ignacio Town in western Belize for the first leg of the race, a trip approximately 46 miles long.

THE SNAEFELL MOUNTAIN COURSE FAITHFULLY REPRODUCED: 37.73 miles of roads and 264 bends for a race that is longer and more difficult than all GP circuits together.

The electric motorcycles will have a top speed of around 124 miles per hour, and the races will be about 10 laps long.