Sentences with phrase «overall race win»

The victory is the third overall race win for Michelin in the first four races of the 2011 American Le Mans Series season.

With 2014 success in the new TUDOR Championship GT Le Mans (GTLM) class at Daytona International Speedway in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and now at Watkins Glen International, Michelin adds to the record book that saw it take overall race wins at all 26 circuits in which the former American Le Mans Series competed.

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However, if we work upfront on enhancing the competitor's overall fitness, the runner will easily be able to participate in, and win, many races.

The Stewart - Haas Racing driver is winless at Texas, but has won three of the past four Phoenix races and five overall.

Norway's Magne Thomassen, who won the 1,500 - meter race, finished second in the overall, followed by Ard Schenk of Norway.

Miller was fast when he won the overall World Cup title in 2005 and then again in 2008, and fast when he won more career World Cup races (32) than any U.S. skier of either gender.

He took first place in the Transatlantic Race to Sweden in» 60, he was captain of the winning American Admiral's Cup team in»61 and first overall on the Southern Ocean Racing Circuit last year.

I expect them to put up a good showing this year but premier league quality has improved overall and it will be more difficult to win the title or even to remain in title race with so many contenders.

This year's Le Mans 24 Hours was absolute chaos as each LMP1 crew did their best to try and not win the race, almost handing overall victory to LMP2.

Meanwhile, Chevrolet and Ford won races 10 apiece and often lacked the same overall speed as Toyota — especially on intermediate speedways, which make up 40 percent of the playoff schedule.

In a head to head race that ended in one of the most spectacular sprint finishes we saw all season long Trevor McCutcheon from Great Oak High School took 1st on the day to win the Series Overall over Turner Conway (2nd) from Redlands Composite.

Soutter, who grew up in Oxsted, Surrey, before moving to the Alps, had earlier narrowly edged out teammate Maisie Hill in the semi-final to clinch a spot to race for the medals before Hill went on to win the B final and finish fifth overall.

At 2.30 am, the Associated Press projected Trump had won Wisconsin and called the overall race for Trump, who passed the 270 electoral college votes he needed to secure the presidency.

However, despite winning a majority of the votes cast on election day, Bradley narrowly lost the overall race once absentee ballots were included.

Overall, Commisso seems confident about his ability to win the race, despite the recent Spectrum News / Siena College 600 - person poll that puts him at the lowest favorability rating at 37 percent — below his two competitors incumbent Mayor Kathy Sheehan (68 percent) and Common Council President Carolyn McLaughlin (45 percent).

Lhota, who won the Staten Island vote in the 2013 election against Bill de Blasio but lost the overall race, said, «I whole - heartedly support Dan Donovan to be the next congressman from Staten Island and southern Brooklyn.

Even though Killian lost to Latimer by 11 points, they say Latimer in his county executive race only won his district by 4 points despite beating Astorino overall by 14 points.

DJ Werkmeister does not win any of the races that night but it does not hurt his overall points since he finishes in the top 10.

The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.

Production ended in 1965, but not before Ferrari had won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the car, marking the last time to this day that Ferrari would win overall at the esteemed endurance race.

He carries a storied professional racing past that includes driving a Porsche 917K to victory with Hans Herrmann at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1970, giving the German company their first overall win at the famed Circuit de la Sarthe.

From 1966 to 1973, CSX2473 claimed 19 overall first - place wins in 31 races, plus a scattering of second - and third - place finishes.

Tom Kristensen, known in racing circles as «Mr. Le Mans» for his record as the most successful driver in Le Mans history, has earned seven of his nine overall wins at Le Mans at the wheel of Audi race cars.

That saw the recent GP2 racer smash his Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 into the back of the number 3 Audi of Marco Bonanomi, forcing both cars into instant retirement and removing one of the main contenders for the overall win from the race.

The Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi took the overall win and led a Cadillac sweep of the podium.

It finished 4th overall in the 1950 race, and continued to rack - up wins and podium finishes until its competition retirement in 1956.

Prepped for racing, these Ferraris won their GT class at Sebring in 1959 and 1960, while a car entered by Chinetti's North American Racing Team and co-driven by Bob Grossman and Fernand Tavano scored fifth overall at the 1959 24 Hours of Leracing, these Ferraris won their GT class at Sebring in 1959 and 1960, while a car entered by Chinetti's North American Racing Team and co-driven by Bob Grossman and Fernand Tavano scored fifth overall at the 1959 24 Hours of LeRacing Team and co-driven by Bob Grossman and Fernand Tavano scored fifth overall at the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Subaru offered Block a factory - sponsored ride for the 2006 season, and he went on to record his first overall win (in just the second race of the season) and produce a string of impressive results: medals at every X Games rally event since, plus second -(2006 and 2008) and third - place (2007) overall finishes in the Rally America championship.

The duo averaged 73.6 mph over the entire race distance, scooping the class win and finishing 20th overall.

Even if it didn't cause showroom stampedes, during its six - year existence, the three - door racked up an impressive string of accomplishments in the Swedish Touring Cup series, winning both the 2009 and 2010 title, and over the course of its racing career, getting 20 overall victories, 42 podium finishes, 34 pole positions, and 22 fastest laps.

In the mid-1960s, Henry Ford II turned to Carroll Shelby to help the blue oval capture the international sports car championship including an overall win in the world's biggest car race, the 24hours of Le Mans.

Aston Martin Racing took five podium spots at the British GT Championship at Spa - Francorchamps this weekend (12 July) as the pair of Oman Racing Team V12 Vantage GT3s finished second and third overall, the TF Sport V8 Vantage GT4 took its first class win and the Beechdean AMR GT4 took third and first in the two one - hour races.

Corvette Racing's 50 victories includes 44 class wins in the American Le Mans Series, five class wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and an overall win in the 2001 Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Fresh off his two race wins in Turkey, Aprilia Team rider Eugene Laverty (Ireland) has moved into third place in the overall standings and is looking to potentially move into second place.

Corvette Racing captured and Rolex 24 overall win 14 years ago but didn't race at Daytona again until last season in the first race for the TUDOR Championship as well as the Corvette C7.R.

Johnny O'Connell has a record - tying six victories at Sebring, including an overall win in 1994 and class wins in 1993, 1995, and 2002 - 04 — the last three with Corvette Racing.

Since that first race, the team has competed in more than 160 events around the globe with 94 victories worldwide — including the overall win in the 2001 Rolex 24 — along with 10 team and manufacturer championships in the American Le Mans Series and seven victories at the Le Mans 24 Hours.

ALTON, Va. (Aug. 28, 2016)-- Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen won the Michelin GT Challenge at VIR on Sunday, the second overall victory for Corvette Racing in its history and the first win for the No. 3 Mobil 1 / SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R of the season.

Enjoyed a great race weekend at the Rolex 24H at Daytona, celebrating 20 years of Corvette Racing and Cadillac's overall win!

Last year's Roar marked the debut of the Corvette C7.R and the return of Corvette Racing to the high banks of Daytona for the first time since winning the Rolex 24 overall in 2001.

This year's Rolex 24 is Corvette Racing's return to Daytona after winning the race overall in 2001 with a Corvette C5 - R.

In the GT1 class, Aston Martin Racing edged Corvette Racing for the win, placed 13th overall, both covering 344 laps with three more GT1 entrants chasing them.

Westbrook, 35, from London, won the FIA GT2 championship in 2009, and scored podium finishes in 24 - hour races at Le Mans (third in GT2) and Daytona (third overall) in 2010.

Painted white with blue racing stripes, the Z06 Corvette matches the livery of the 1960 Briggs Cunningham Corvette that won its class and finished 8th overall.

In the team's last appearance at Daytona, Corvette Racing won the 2001 race overall with a Corvette C5 - R.

In the GTS Amateur division, Aristotle Balogh of Palo Alto, California, drove his Stephen Cameron Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT4 to the win and seventh overall in the 50 - minute GTS sprint event.

Absolute highlights in the racing career of the classic Mini are its three overall wins in the Monte Carlo Rally of 1964, 1965 and 1967.

He and Tommy Milner were masterful in their No. 4 Corvette C6.R to take the win and finish 6th overall, with the British driver claiming a new race lap record in the process.

In the six years that followed, Corvette Racing scored 35 ALMS victories, including an overall victory in the Daytona 24 - hour race, three 1 - 2 finishes in the GTS class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and three consecutive class wins at the 12 Hours of Sebring.

While he didn't win a race in the No. 77 car, Posey finished fourth overall in points.