Sentences with phrase «of podium finishes»

A string of podium finishes mid-season, including wins at Watkins Glen and Toronto, gave Pobst a comfortable margin over Pilgrim heading into the final round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, where he earned his second - career SPEED GT Championship by 16 points.

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In the senior ranks, the Wolverhampton - born sailor has a European Championship bronze to her name and a string of podium finishes at World Cup level.

England pick up a handful of podium finishes with Kyle Langford sprinting to silver in the 800m as well as bronze medals for Luke Cutts (pole vault), Shara Proctor (long jump) and Dina Asher - Smith (200m).

Two wins and a string of podium finishes meant that after 11 of the 16 races he was just three points behind McLaren's Alain Prost at the top of the table - not much of a deficit with five races still to go.

THE DORNER FILES • THE STATS: The senior sprinter won her fourth Sac Joaquin Section Masters title in the 400 meters and second 200 - meter title before earning a pair of podium finishes at the state meet, including the 400 - meter state championship.

The Force India duo have clashed in both Canada and Azerbaijan this season in a car that has shown that it could be capable of a podium finish.

Both the two - car teams for Corvette Racing's Chevrolet Corvette C7.R and Ford Chip Ganassi's Ford GT were shut out of a podium finish, with the Ford GTs finishing fourth and ninth in class, and the Corvettes finishing sixth and eighth.

It can be an overwhelming task, one slip up can break your chance of a podium finish, but it can still present plenty of fun along the way.

Not exact matches

He'd already finished on the podium that season when he was second in the wet Malaysian Grand Prix, but this was a very different kind of drive.

But in third place was the Scuderia Italia - run Dallara of Andrea de Cesaris - who'd run near the front all race - for what would be the Italian's last podium finish.

Ricciardo finished in a solid second place whilst Valtteri Bottas made it two Mercedes on the podium with third, despite doing most of the race without a drinks system in what is one of the toughest races of the year.

Although its car, the P261, was now into its third season of competition, Graham Hill finished regularly on the podium and Jackie Stewart won a race.

Jaap van Lagen finished just four seconds away from the winner - in most races this would usually mean being on the podium (or at least very close to it), but the field were so closely that he was only 11th - and out of the points!

On Sunday, Miller missed a gate and failed to qualify for a second run in the slalom, while much - buzzed - about 21 - year - old U.S. teammate Ted Ligety finished third, reaching the first World Cup podium of his career.

These make up a third of his podiums, a third of his points in 2013 and a third of the total podium finishers in each of those races.

United States runner Justin Gatlin finished in third place with a time of 9.79 seconds, while USA's Tyson Gay missed out on the podium, finishing in fourth place at 9.80.

Despite never winning an F1 race, Cheever still achieved a lot in his varied motorsport career, winning sports car races, finishing runner - up at Le Mans twice, racing in CART and standing on the top step of the podium in IndyCar and winning the famous Indianapolis 500 in 1998.

Amon was highly rated in F1 but sadly he never stood on the top step of the podium, despite 11 podium finishes in his career.

The team hasn't scored a single podium finish since Honda came back onto the F1 scene, with just three top five finishes over the course of three seasons.

Jean - Pierre Beltoise finished on the podium a number of times whilst he was Jackie Stewart's team mate at Ken Tyrrell's Matra team, but a win always eluded him.

He later spun off trying to regain the lost time — the legacy of that pit stop had cost him a certain podium finish.

When Fernando Alonso left Ferrari at the end of 2014, a year that saw him score just two podiums finishes, he probably couldn't have imagined that his career could get any worse.

The 13/15 Team earned a Silver Medal and kept their feet firmly on the podium with an additional 3rd place (Bronze) finish for Soloist Daria Torba, a 3rd place finish for the duet of Torba and team mate Lauren Simonelli, and a second place finish for the Trio which included Taylor Fair, Katya Mizin, Lauren Simonelli and Caoimhe Gallehue as alternate.

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.

For a long time he held the unwanted record of having the most podiums without winning a race, but the record was taken from him when Nick Heidfeld finished 3rd in the 2011 Malaysian GP.

He also lamented the fortunes of the team, saying that when he needs luck he doesn't get it, and when he doesn't need it he gets bad luck, such as today, when he feels he'd have definitely finished on the podium.

1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve put in some impressive performances and could have scored points or even podiums on a few occasions, but the car just kept letting him down; he didn't finish a race until the 12th round of the season!

Neel Jani recounts one of the most dramatic finishes in Le Mans history, which elevated his Porsche to the top step of the podium

Sadly his season unravelled when he was passed by Rubens Barrichello on the last corner of the last lap at the teams home race in France, costing them a podium finish.

Having been nerfed off on lap one, he fought back through the field, pitted, and then fought through it again to finish in fourth, just a couple of seconds off the podium.

The drivers have been stripped of a memorable podium finish, and the drivers of the promoted cars didn't actually get to be on the podium.

The unreliability of the LMP1 cars at Le Mans meant that two LMP2 cars finished on the outright podium.

He scored his second F1 podium in Malaysia with third place, before finishing runner - up in Monaco and at the Nurburgring, before Williams started to struggle towards the end of the season.

He was on the podium at Spa and in Portugal raised eyebrows when he qualified third, finished second and spent much of the race putting pressure on eventual winner Alain Prost.

A strange accident which happened due to a quirk of the Marina Bay circuit, Fabio Leimer was on his way to the podium after finishing third when he T - boned Alexander Rossi.

There are so many great memories from this weekend: outstanding team meals by Chef Renee and crew, Luna Cerulla finishing 2nd in her last SoCal race (she has to move back to Germany), the Weyman brothers finishing 5th in their respective races, and of course the team podium.»

We had solid performances from all of our riders, with one of our JV girls having her first top ten finish, as well as putting three JV Boys on the podium again.

The 13 - 15 Aquanut squad just missed the podium with a fourth place finish in the Team event out of 37 teams from around the nation.

Although Williams finished third in the championship that year, it wasn't until the ninth round in Austria that the team actually got a podium, which of course came the day after Massa became the only non-Mercedes driver to take a pole position that year.

Jones was now leading and despite nursing high water temperatures he managed to come home to take the win, with Jochen Mass and Elio de Angelis completing the podium in a race which saw just six of the 22 cars reach the finish.

This often gives us a large number of race winners and podium finishers each season, and makes it tough to predict who will do well each weekend.

In the second race of the season at Imola he finished sixth to score his first F1 point and followed it up throughout the rest of the year with four more points finishes, including two podiums.

Hill won by the huge margin of two laps from Olivier Panis, who only just made the finish in his smoking Ligier, with Gianni Morbidelli claiming Footwork's only podium.

Watkins said, «The climbs and working with Zoe Wu in the race allowed me to finish on the podium with an amazing and talented group of riders, but the biggest thing that enabled me to do well was all the valuable advice from my coaches.

The European Champion added a second RS: X World Championship silver to her medal collection at the conclusion of an intense and physical light wind regatta, with Shaw sailing a strong final race to finish second in the medal finale and claim the second step of the women's podium.

A strong points race followed, but the podium places remained just out of the British youngster's reach, as he eventually finished in fifth with 88 points.

When he made his only stop at half - distance he leapfrogged Valtteri Bottas (who had an absolute mare of a race, finishing 44 seconds behind his teammate) and started chasing down Daniel Ricciardo for the final podium spot.