Sentences with phrase «opening race at»

With the season - opening race at Daytona scheduled for this weekend, Ford Racing is giving its Fusion Sprint Cup Race Car a major overhaul and facelift, opting to go back to the method of designing the car to resemble the actual Fusion production model that it represented.

In its opening race at Monza in 1966, GTAs occupied the first seven places, driver Andrea De Adamich claiming the title that season in his GTA.

Buttons» 2018 Super GT season got off to a great start this weekend as he and teammate Naoki Yamamoto finished second in the opening race at Okayama.

The Renault Clio Cup series is known for its dramatic, door - banging racing but the opening race at Donington lasted one corner before being red flagged.

The 2017 IndyCar season started this weekend with its now - traditional opening race at the St. Petersburg street circuit in Florida.

Almost as confusing as its male counterpart (though not quite), best supporting actress seems like a wide open race at this point.

We'll know more as the other guilds come in, but for right now this is a wide open race at the bottom.

The Mazda - powered Lola prototypes have been way down on power and speed in the opening races at Daytona, Sebring and Long Beach, and it's going to be a long season for them.

Not exact matches

She drives the final race of her career at the Indy 500 and then will focus full - time on her entrepreneurial goals, (having already written a health and fitness book, launched an apparel line and opened her own vineyard)

Fujairah will be holding the Innovation Race, a competition aimed at finding ideas to improve local government services, open to residents of the city, and with a winning prize of AED 20,000 for first place, AED 15,000 for second place, and AED 10,000 for third place.

«There hasn't been such a wide open field since Goldwater ran against Rockefeller,» Bill Whalen, a research fellow specializing in California and national politics at the Hoover Institution, said in earlier interview with Inc. «Even then it was a fairly focused race, now there is not one solid frontrunner.»

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 - Uber was so driven to «win at all costs» in the race to develop self - driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury on Monday, the opening salvo in a trade - secrets lawsuit between the two technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Reuters)- Uber was so driven to «win at all costs» in the race to develop self - driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury on Monday, the opening salvo in a trade - secrets lawsuit between the two technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

Grillo's surge in the final weeks of the campaign threw the race open, with hundreds of thousands turning up at his rallies to hear him lay into targets ranging from corrupt politicians and bankers to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

[His] announcement leaves a huge void among one of the most potent constituencies in the GOP at a time when the race is highly fluid and arguably wide open.

The more that I looked at the death penalty the more I saw Pandora's box: It opens up a whole lot of other important issues like race and economic inequity and how the death penalty is applied — even things like the role of government.

Thanksgiving is opening day for the thoroughbred racing season at the Fair Grounds Race Course, and a traditional holiday outing to the historic track has been passed down through generations of locals.

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Equally important, it was our first eight days of working at a race track together with Toro Rosso.Our relationship has been very open and honest and communication has been effective between all of us.

After the defeat at Tottenham, Chelsea still have a 5 point lead, but Arsene Wenger still thinks the title race is open with six teams all bunching up at the top of the table.

But Smith says he is still worried that the Charlotte crash and a similar accident at a CART race 10 months earlier at Michigan Speedway, in which three spectators were killed and six more were injured, have put open - wheel racing «in danger.

Monster's fan zone display at various tracks has included an appearance by Rob Gronkowski at the season - opening Daytona 500, a stunt motorcycle shows, MMA fights at the upcoming All - Star Race.

With the Pole only securing a reserve role at Williams this year, his schedule potentially looked open for him to compete in some other championship to keep his race skills sharp.

The title race is now slightly more open than it was and we have to be grateful to Spurs for keeping us with an outside chance of winning the title, had Chelsea won we would have been looking at next season.

The La Source hairpin at Spa - Francorchamps is always a tricky corner to negotiate on the opening lap of a race and usually sparks drama.

The growling sea of New York race - goers, who involuntarily pushed, gouged and elbowed one another at the opening of the racing season at Jamaica the other day, at last have something to look forward to besides a ticket on a winner.

Having raced into a 3 - 0 lead in the opening 30 minutes, Liverpool have now put themselves in a great position to progress, but it remains to be seen whether or not City can pull off what would be an incredible turnaround at the Etihad next week.

Hamlin, 25, opened the season with a win in the BudweiserShootout at Daytona, and at Pocono got his first points - race victory.

Kevin Harvick will be in a backup car for the remainder of the Food City 500 race weekend after crashing in opening practice Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Chelsea's defeat at the hands of Manchester United and former boss Jose Mourinho has opened the door in the Premier League title race.

The duo discussed a variety of general interest racing topics including safety innovations to open - wheel racing, the ability to process high velocity speeds and the fear that comes with failing brakes at the entrance to a corner.

«You can't win the Chase at New Hampshire,» says Biffle of the opening race, «but you sure can lose it there.»

Malouda was one of the weekend's star men, and opened the scoring for Les Grenats against Racing Club de Lens with a delightful volley in their «Battle of the no - hopers» at the foot of the Ligue 1 table.

Petrov instantly delivered, qualifying a career - best sixth for the opening race of the season and jumping up to fourth at the start.

I've always been a big fan of strategy shaking up a race and the old Pirelli tyres opened up a lot of options due to the amount of wear, but these new, wider 2017 compounds are much more durable and that could limit drivers to one - stop races at a lot of tracks.

On the morning before the race upon which his entire season would be riding, Mark Martin took a seat in his motor home in the infield at Phoenix International Raceway and flipped open his laptop.

It was a race of high attrition but Rosberg still qualified well and hit the front at the start after a great opening lap.

In what is shaping up to be one of the most open Premier League title races ever, those four games could be absolutely crucial at the rate of which Tottenham lost points in Dembele's absence this season.

Although a change was supposed to happen before the opening race, time has obviously ticked away and now it seems there won't be a name change at all this year, with the decision being delayed until at least 2019.

Suffering brake failure on the run to the first corner at the Albert Park Circuit is never good and it resulted in this massive shunt during the opening Supercars race.

With the Kentucky Derby only four weeks away, the sound of starting gates slamming open at racetracks across the land was positively deafening last Saturday as three major Derby prep races were run in just over an hour.

I'd prefer if they were heavy favorites coming into it rather than this wide open race we have at the start of this week.

While it may take a few races for Montoya to get re-acclimated to open - wheel racing, Penske has stacked the deck in his efforts to both return to Victory Lane at Indianapolis and pick up the team's first championship since 2006 (Sam Hornish Jr..)

It opens up a fascinating race for the hotseat at Stamford Bridge, with the successor to Mourinho tasked with ensuring that the champions a year ago return to their usual high levels for the long term future.

These two Formula 2 drivers looked like they were racing in an open lobby when they crashed into each other at the Hungaroring

The sport got its first look at the new restart rule during the second race of the opening round of the season at Hockenheim after an incident on the first lap brought out the safety car... and it made for an epic run down to the first corner.

The 1993 European GP at Donington Park is remembered for being one of Senna's finest performances, here's a lap (sadly not the opening lap) from the race.

Most oddsmakers know which games will take one - sided public betting, so they will shade their opening lines to account for dull bettors racing to the window like drunkards (or myself) racing to the bar at last call.

Kyle Busch will start the opening playoff race from the pole - position after topping Monster Energy Cup Series qualifying Friday at Chicagoland Speedway, site of Sunday's Tales of the Turtles 400.

One of them would require the Harness Racing Commission to hold open meetings on the granting of licenses; another would make it illegal for public officials or political party officials to hold financial interests in tracks; and the most severe of all would repeal the law which legalized pari - mutuel betting at harness tracks.