Sentences with phrase «only race finish»

Not exact matches

Nike - endorsed elite runner Eliud Kipchoge has run the world's fastest marathon time but missed finishing under the two - hour mark by only 26 seconds — a gap of just one second per mile for the distance of the race.

While Froome only finished fourth in the 2017 Critérium du Dauphiné (he won it 2016 and» 15) and came away with bronze at Rio, he dominates the biggest race in cycling in a way we haven't seen since Lance Armstrong.

There is no finish line in this race, only a competition that can best meet the various needs of the users.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

The world tells us to go and experience all of the pleasures that can be found in our youth, but the book of Acts teaches us to go and consider our lives nothing to us, and only aim to finish the race and complete the task God has given us — to share His grace.

We can not know when or whether one thoroughbred colt will win all three of the toughest three - year - old races, in only five weeks, finishing with the brutal mile - and - a-half at Belmont Park.

Kanaan recovered to finish second whilst Simon Pagenaud took third in an attritional race which saw only nine cars still going at the end.

Andrea Cesaris crossed the line in fourth with teammate Bertrand Gachot just behind him in fifth, giving the tiny Jordan team not only it's first points, but a double points finish just five races into its debut season.

The last race in Mexico saw only two cars out of six finish the race, highlighting the poor reliability.

Wenger said it is not easy to finish top4, but what he didn't say was that ten or fifteen years ago there was really only two or three teams in the race now its five or six.

Incredibly, although he wasn't classified by the finish, he actually set the fastest lap of the race - the only one of his career.

The 1995 race was a typical Montreal race of attrition, with only nine of the 24 starters reaching the finish.

Laffite needed to finish in the top two with both Piquet and Reutemann having duff races to win the title, and though that's exactly what happened, Laffite himself could only manage sixth.

The Frenchman has been seriously impressive this year, being the only driver other than Lewis Hamilton to finish every single race this season.

Though he won only one race, Kenseth cruised to his first Cup title on the strength of 25 top 10 finishes.

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!

This has been not only Montoya's most successful Cup season to date, but also his cleanest — he's finished every race so far, after racking up 14 DNFs in his previous 73 starts.

Consider that Johnson (page 72) finished the regular season fifth in the standings, a career low since the Chase format was adopted in 2004; that he hasn't won a race since June; and that he has only three top 10 finishes in his last nine starts.

Well, only once in the Chase era has a driver finished worse than sixth in the fall race at Loudon and gone on to win the championship (Johnson, in 2006, when he came in 39th at the 1.058 - mile oval).

That's certainly a disappointing ending for the «Chicken Man,» who RCR pledged to help develop as a driver but only waited through five races of wrecked cars and poor finishes before giving him the boot.

Thus, in the unlikely instance that Sabich might win both final races, Killy needed only to average two fourth - place finishes to clinch at least a tie for his title and that $ 40,000 check.

It proved to be a race of high attrition, with only 14 cars making it to the finish.

Three years removed from a stellar short - track career running 30 - mile, dirt - oval sprints, Bowyer has exhibited a veteran's car - control skills and is one of only three drivers in the top 12 to have finished all 18 races this season.

If the logo is that Arsenal can finish top spot an injury ridden Spurs should by the same logic he capable of finishing 4th and if you look at it this is exactly how Spurs staffree last season and only fell off in the title race after they collapsed at Stamford Bridge.

Martin went into Sunday's race only 73 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson, having taken a whopping 107 - point chunk out of Johnson's margin the week before at Texas, when the three - time defending champion crashed on the third lap and finished 38th.

That would turn out to be the only points finish of his Formula 1 career, though at the same track in 1956 he became the oldest driver to start a race (he was 56) and two years later (at 58) the oldest driver to enter a race, though he failed to qualify.

He was four laps down on the winner at the end, but in a race where only five cars finished that was enough for third place.

Like many of the drivers on this list high attrition goes some way to explaining the result (there were only five finishers), but the fact is Attwood had just been plain fast during the race.

Dixon will automatically clinch the championship if he finishes fifth or better, leaving Castroneves to only focus on his own race.

The MP4 - 31 was way off the pace in qualifying and the race, and Alonso and Button finished only 16th and 18th - McLaren's worst ever two - car finish in a Grand Prix.

He finished every race that season too, the only blight being a disqualification from third at the Red Bull Ring for a technical infringement.

Mears made only one race, finishing 30th at Bristol, in his six attempts with Key before moving on.

Rival Stevens was no pushover: he finished second in his first race despite a wild rollover flip that detained him for a bit, but managed only third place for the rest of the day's activities.

Racing for three hours in the searing conditions was a brutal test for the drivers and come the end only two had managed to complete the entire distance without sharing their drive (as was allowed at the time)- fifth - place finisher Roberto Mieres and winner, Juan Manual Fangio.

As he did in the World Cup final, Gotze scored the only goal of the game; racing through onto a beautiful pass from Sebastian Rode before finishing calmly past Juan Pablo Carrizo.

However, he's now closed out the title with a second - place finish in race one of the weekend at Hockenheim, as title rival Maximilian Gunther could only finish 10th.

Gurney and the Eagle were one of the fastest combinations of the year, although reliability was so bad that he only finished two races all season.

As well as going on holiday with each other, Stewart actively mentored his young teammate - yep, he helped out the only person any racing driver has to beat - and saw him improve from a midfielder to a race - winner and regular podium finisher.

In Australia though, Williams didn't actually do that well - Massa and Valtteri Bottas only qualified ninth and 10th, with Bottas going on to finish fifth in the race.

The 35 - year - old is the only female driver to lead laps in both the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500 and holds the highest finishing position for a female driver in each race.

Following on from Piquet's third World Championship in 1987 the circuit was renamed Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet, and he therefore became the only driver to race in a Grand Prix on a track bearing his own name, which he did in 1988 (when he finished third for Lotus) and 1989.

Eden Hazard has ruled Arsenal out of the race for the Premier League title, claiming their only challenge is to finish above Manchester City and Liverpool.

The contact punted Fisichella around and out of the race, and to rub salt in the wound for the Italian, Ralf carried on to finish third in what was only his third Grand Prix, although the team weren't too happy.

Like so many other talented drivers later would, he started his F1 career with the Minardi team, but the unreliable cars meant he only actually reached finished five races in two seasons with the team.

He was the last classified finisher, but remember that was the soaking wet race where Michael Schumacher made everyone look silly - the fact Diniz got to the end (and «only» two laps down) when many others did not was impressive.

The first race of 1966 - the Monaco Grand Prix - only had four classified finishers.

There have only been seven occasions in the history of F1 where every single car that started the race also finished it.

He struggled with the new one - lap qualifying system and whilst teammate Raikkonen was three points away from being champion, Coulthard only scored two more podiums and finished a lowly seventh in the title race.

And while Edwards» Texas triumph is encouraging, it was only his second top - five finish since mid-July, a 17 - race span.

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.