Sentences with phrase «race team of the week»

Every week following a TUDOR United Sports Car Championship Race, the Wall Street Journal hosts a vote sponsored by Microsoft's Visual Studio for the race team of the week.

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«The White House doesn't take kindly to being told they have a gender problem on their economic team,» the Washington Post «s Ezra Klein noted a few weeks ago writing about the race to succeed Ben Bernanke as the new chair of the Federal Reserve.

I am part of a triathlon training team at my YMCA and am really working hard to get in 6 days a week of running, biking and swimming so that I will be able to actually finish the race in one piece!!

It looks to me like Arsenal will be the only team from the current top three of the Premier League that will have anything but the Premier League title race to worry about by next week, always assuming that the Gunners manage to get past Watford at the Emirates stadium on Sunday, but how will that affect things?

Furious pennant races used to be the exclusive property of the National League, but last week the action was in the American, five teams whaling away at one another, each with reason to believe it could be first in September.

Stewart didn't share in that belief during portions of the summer — he said at one point that his team would just be taking up a spot in the Chase if they made it — but he regained his confidence in the final weeks leading into the 10 - race playoff.

Three years of brilliant performances make Jones the 100 - and 200 - meter favorite at the trials, especially with Miller — who has not looked sharp in recent European races — saying last week that she is running merely to make the team in Sacramento, with victory in Sydney as her larger goal.

Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.

Though all the attention in the coming weeks will be rightfully focused on the race for state championships, it would be unfair to ignore the quality Division VI girls teams, which will conclude their season at the end of the NorCal playoffs.

As always, bold teams are new additions, with the week of each team's title race exit in parentheses.

The most interesting category of games this week are the ones featuring teams struggling to keep a foothold in the playoff race, the teams that entered the season with high expectations that have since fallen apart.

Ohio State's schedule remains the most manageable of the four teams in the Top 4, and next week could go a long way towards determining how the BCS Championship Game race shakes out.

There'd also be a «Rookie Night Race» with teams» reserve drivers and those racing in their first F1 season, to take place on the Friday evening of a race wRace» with teams» reserve drivers and those racing in their first F1 season, to take place on the Friday evening of a race wrace week.

Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might be in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players & in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added games the CL brings will they perform week in week out in the league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the race.

The week before, after three days of hearings in a U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, Federal Judge James Noland reversed a USAC ban that would have kept six CART teams — numbering among them drivers such as defending Indy champ Al Unser, his brother Bobby, and former winners Johnny Rutherford and Gordon Johncock — from competing in this year's race.

Last week gave us a strange sort of Indy qualifying, with teams vying for spots in a race in which the pole position, if not the victor, had been determined long ago.

Most damning for Wenger — Arsenal is getting beaten convincingly in the league race not by an oil / oligarch sugar daddy team but by grafters whose top two players were recently PURCHASED for TEN WEEKS of Walcott's WEEKLY wage!!!

I donâ $ ™ t know if the rumours of a rift between Mourinho and Abramovich are true, but Iâ $ ™ d like to think after Chelseaâ $ ™ s performance against Valencia last week and the fact that they're taking a storming Manchester United team to the end in the Premiership title race, a clever guy like Roman Abramovich would be reluctant to cut Mourinho loose.

Arsenal are still fighting to stay in the race for the Premiership title after being eliminated from both the FA Cup and the Champions League in one cruel week, but Arsene Wenger firmly believes that this top quality Arsenal team is now fully primed and ready to aim for the top spot by the end of the season.

Yesterday at 11:00 pm - Gameweek 34 — Premier League Team Of The Week Premier League football is nearing its conclusion and gameweek 34 has been significant in terms of top - four race as well as the relegation battlOf The Week Premier League football is nearing its conclusion and gameweek 34 has been significant in terms of top - four race as well as the relegation battlof top - four race as well as the relegation battle.

And so within two years of being expendable he become such a valued member of former manager Brendan Rodgers's title - chasing team that it was his sending off in the last second of a victory against City that probably turned the title race and unbalanced the team as much as Steven Gerrard's slip against Chelsea two weeks later for which Henderson was suspended.

At the midpoint of the season just 7 points separate 10th from the relegation zone and the title race looks set to be one of the tightest battles in years after a week in which top spot changed hands three times, so many teams could be looking to spend big to achieve their goals.

Bysiewicz dropped out of the governor's race and announced she was teaming up with gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont earlier this week.

Former Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor, who is part of the team of election attorneys handling the recount fight for the Democrats in the Thompson race, said the whole mess could take weeks — or maybe even months — which means there might be empty seats in the chamber when the Legislature returns to Albany in early January.

BY JOE RINI Milestones for Dickey and Wright and Collins to Return in 2013 Although September was short on pennant race drama for the New York Mets, two players did scale team milestones during this last week of the 2012 season.

Six teams will compete this week to qualify for one of the four spots; the final race will begin on 28 April at 11 a.m. local time.

That work triggered a close race between the Cambridge University group and a rival team at MIT in deciphering tRNA's 3D structure at atomic resolution with x-ray crystallography, with the two labs publishing results within 2 weeks of each other.

I'd gone exclusively to aerobic training following a season of racing and then several weeks of coaching my son in cross-country, which included weekly hill repeats with the team and some intervals.

California State University, Sacramento — The men's team has been close to perfect this season, and enters the meet as the No. 1 team in the country, a ranking they have held for a school - record 12 straight weeks dating back to last... live results of the race online.

Elizabeth Karlsen, one of the producers on Todd Haynes» «Carol,» told Variety that the awards season felt like a roller - coaster ride this week, following the Producers Guild of America's decision to leave the film out of its nominations list on Tuesday; now the pic's team were on a high again with its very strong showing in the BAFTA race.

The 2018 Formula One season is about to kick off in a matter of weeks, and participating teams such as Ferrari, Haas, McLaren and Mercedes - AMG F1 have already unveiled their respective race cars.

Detroit — Ryan Briscoe will return to Corvette Racing next week for Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta as the third driver in both of the team's Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs.

DETROIT (Sept. 26, 2014)-- Ryan Briscoe will return to Corvette Racing next week for Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta as the third driver in both of the team's Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs.

«Now that Corvette Racing has put another 24 Hours of Le Mans in the history book, the team's next challenge is to run five races in nine weeks on a wide variety of tracks,» said GM Road Racing Group manager Steve Wesoloski.

Olly has been at the historic Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course since the beginning of the week as the Corvette Racing team has been testing here at the 2.25 mile track, which sits between the cities of Colombus and Cleveland in Ohio.

DETROIT (Aug. 3, 2016)-- Less than two weeks after adding another chapter to its already impressive record book, Corvette Racing rolls into familiar territory in pursuit of strengthening its GT Le Mans (GTLM) championship lead and resume as sports car racing's premier GTRacing rolls into familiar territory in pursuit of strengthening its GT Le Mans (GTLM) championship lead and resume as sports car racing's premier GTracing's premier GT team.

After a disastrous race two weeks ago at Circuit of The Americas in Texas, when the No. 4 Corvette C6.R of Gavin and his team mate Tommy Milner was retired prematurely due to a gearbox issue, the duo knew that they needed nothing less than a GT win in order to keep their championship hopes alive.

Throughout the week and during the race, knowing that our cars lacked the pace of the Fords and Ferrari, our Corvette Racing team acted and performed like the true professionals they are and we couldn't ask for better ambassadors for the Corvette brand.

In 2015, the team will compete with two Beetle GRC race cars, which debuted in the final races of 2014, and which you can see at the Chicago Auto Show this week.

Two weeks after both its Compuware Corvette C6.R race cars completed the Le Mans 24 Hours, Corvette Racing returns stateside to continue defense of its GT driver, team and manufacturer championships in the American Le Mans Series.

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Corvette Racing's victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans two weeks ago completed the team's Triple Crown of sports car endurance racing with the Chevrolet CorvetteRacing's victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans two weeks ago completed the team's Triple Crown of sports car endurance racing with the Chevrolet Corvetteracing with the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R.

The Road Atlanta 2.54 - mile circuit was chosen by IMSA and Michelin for the testing because it «is demanding of tires and well known by the GTLM teams who will have recent data from race week for comparison,» said Ken Payne, technical director, motorsports, Michelin North America.

This week however, with NASCAR doing a west coast swing and just wrapping up the third race of the 2016 season at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the Las Vegas resident took his Stewart - Hass pit crew out to Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club for a team building excercise with the Ron Fellows High Performance Driving School.

LAKEVILLE, Conn. — Two weeks after both its Compuware Corvette C6.R race cars completed the Le Mans 24 Hours, Corvette Racing returns stateside to continue defense of its GT driver, team and manufacturer championships in the American Le Mans Series.

Last week the field was announced and the factory - backed race team did indeed receive two of the 21 at - large invitations available for the race at Circuit de la Sarthe in France this June.

The three weeks following the 22nd / 23rd February test in preparation for the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Twelve Hours of Sebring (USA) have been busy ones for BMW Team RLL as the team prepares for the second endurance race for the new BMW M8 GTE and hopes for a good resTeam RLL as the team prepares for the second endurance race for the new BMW M8 GTE and hopes for a good resteam prepares for the second endurance race for the new BMW M8 GTE and hopes for a good result.

The Mercedes - AMG GT3 will debut at the Geneva Motor Show next week, with deliveries to race teams expected to start before the end of 2015.

The quality of restrictor - plate racing (if that isn't an oxymoron) may hinge on a specially convened test session called by NASCAR for up to a dozen Winston Cup teams at Daytona International Speedway next week.

Following hot on the heels of his great race to a second place finish at Mid Ohio two weeks ago, the British driver and his Corvette Racing team continued the good work at the popular, European - style track.

After an eight - week break for teams competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, all of America's finest are back together, starting a long summer stretch that will take them to five races over the next eight weeks.