Sentences with phrase «race to finish second»

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.

The e-reader's ease and comfort became apparent as I raced to finish the second «Hunger Games» book before the movie came out.

Not exact matches

After routing Clinton in New Hampshire and finishing a strong second in Iowa, states with nearly all - white populations, Nevada's Democratic caucuses gave Sanders his first chance to prove he can win over black and Hispanic voters and compete nationally as the race moves to states with more diverse populations.

By the time the 1 / 8 - mile race was done, the Model 3 was 0.60 seconds ahead of the all - American classic, finishing the run at 8.7 seconds compared to the 2017 Mustang's 9.3 seconds.

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

After several laps the wing eventually worked itself loose and Gilles continued on to finish third, behind race - winner Jacques Laffite and second - placed John Watson.

A 28 - second gap covered them in this race last year; Red Bull seems to have made the most gains and is much closer to the two teams that finished above it in 2017.

After finishing second following a thrilling race - long scrap with Jean - Eric Vergne, Di Grassi was summoned to the stewards and penalised for wearing incorrect underwear

But Taylor stayed in the race against dozens of crack riders, and to everyone's astonishment, won it, crossing the finish line with but six seconds of his 15 - minute handicap left.

This will actually be the second time Stroll has competed in the race - in 2016 he drove for Ganassi alongside Alex Wurz, Andy Priaulx, and Brendon Hartley, and came close to finishing on the podium.

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!

It is no secret that Liverpool have fallen back a long way since last season, when — powered on by Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge — they finished a close second to Manchester City in the Premier League title race.

After an uneven start to the season, Busch was excellent in the second with two wins and eight other finishes inside the top 10 over the past 13 races.

Arthur Knapp Jr. of Larchmont, N.Y., took to his dinghy Agony in Manhasset Bay YC frostbite regatta, in second day of races finished 4 -3-4-1-1 over 50 other skippers for winning low score of 38 points.

Drechsler had finished second in the 100 meters to teammate Silke Gladisch, but she skipped the 200 (a race in which she is ranked No. 1 in the world) to be rested for Joyner - Kersee's challenge in the long jump.

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Second - place finisher Keselowski was especially displeased with NASCAR's decision not to stop the race and sort the issue out.

Playing for Santurce this past winter in the Puerto Rican league, he hit.351 and finished second to Roberto Alomar in the race for the batting title.

In four Monster Energy Cup Series races this season, Larson has finished second three times — to Brad Keselowski at Atlanta Motor Speedway, to Martin Truex Jr. at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and to Newman on Sunday.

And now, he is on board the dead donkey, Flogging away, trying to finish second in a race thats virtually over!

Having fallen short in the Premier League title race, League Cup and Champions League, the Portuguese tactician will be desperate to end the campaign on a high note with a trophy and a second - place finish in the league.

«I'll say this: Drew is definitely an honorary brother,» says Troy Henry, 50, a black businessman who finished a distant second to Mitch Landrieu in the mayor's race just before this year's Super Bowl.

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.

At Le Mans Porsche came within a few seconds of winning its first Le Mans 24 Hours - A 908 was leading on the last lap but suffering from brake problems, which allowed the Ford GT40 of Jacky Ickx to pass it and win in one of the closest finishes in the history of the race.

A chance to go second, we need to show how much we want to get back in this race, over the next two weeks, we» ll either be back in it or else holding on for a CL place finish.

«It was kind of like old school racing,» said Earnhardt, who finished second to teammate Jimmie Johnson.

Ricciardo himself finished second in 2014 but was subsequently disqualified, and last year he crashed in qualifying, had to start from the pit lane, and then retired from the race.

Though 13 horses went to the post, it was expected to be a three - way race among Slavic, an impressive Gulfstream allowance - race winner; Rhythm, last year's juvenile champion, whose 3 - year - old debut was a dismal seventh - place finish in the Feb. 10 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream; and a son of Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew named Yonder, who made a strong stretch run in the Hutcheson to finish second.

The second - place finish equaled Larson's best result of the season and marked the second straight spring Bristol race where he led 200 - plus laps but failed to register the victory.

The Dubai - born Brit and reigning Indy Lights champion (the main feeder series to IndyCar) qualified 11th and finished third, just half a second away from race - winner Takuma Sato, and was ahead of Alonso at the time of the Spaniard's retirement.

But Busch, who also advanced to the final four last season, finishing second, and his No. 18 team consistently challenged Truex and Furniture Row Racing during the regular season more than any other team, and in nine playoff races Busch has led more laps (631) than Truex (529).

Ally Zirkle, who led for much of the first half of the race, was expected to finish second, followed closely by Ramey Smyth, who came all the way back from 30th place to finish third.

In addition to points awarded based on the finish each week — 40 points for the winner, 35 for second place, 34 for third, down to one point for those 36th to 40th — this year brought a new system, with points for the first two stages of each race.

In the end the team recovered well enough to win races and finish second in the Constructors» Championship, but if the same sort of thing happens this year it may end up being too late for them to challenge for either championship, especially if Ferrari suddenly remember how to do strategy.

Last year Perez crashed in practice as well and had to change his gearbox, dropping him down from second on the grid to seventh, but he recovered to finish an impressive third in the race.

Then after an exchange of I love you's and a hug with his older sister, the 24 - year - old driver for Richard Petty Motorsports tried to put into words what it meant to finish second in NASCAR's biggest race following a year where his place within the sport was uncertain because he lacked sponsorship.

Despite finishing second, they were never truly in the title race, and losing to Wigan in the FA Cup is inexcusable, given that this poor side was relegated from the Premier League just days afterwards.

The Pocono IndyCar weekend fueled by Sunoco in July was a turning point in the season for Scott Dixon and the entire Ganassi Racing operation, as all three cars came from the second half of the field and used strategy to finish the race sweeping the top three.

«Gabe was a football player his freshman year,» Jim recalls, «but when he finished sixth in the race in that state meet, he asked the boy who finished second what he'd done to get so much better.

Elliott finished second to Matt Kenseth Sunday, missing out on winning a race he needed to avoid playoff elimination.

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.

Siebel's second consecutive win takes up to third in the standings having failed to finish the first two races.

It wouldn't be a list of awesome photo finishes without the closest gap between first and second in the history of the Daytona 500, set in 2016 when Denny Hamlin narrowly edged Martin Truex Jr. to victory at the famous Nascar Cup race.

Similar to the previous day's race, the quad had an early 4 second advantage over the other crews at the 500m mark, which they continued to extend, eventually finishing over 13 seconds ahead of Tilburg University (NED) in second place, and 36 seconds ahead of University of Heidelburg (GER) in third, in a final time of 06:56:42.

But Keselowski did pass Truex to finish a somewhat improbable second in a race that appeared over before it ever really began.

In 1978 he had a marvelous colt in Alydar, but had to watch him finish second to Affirmed in all three Triple Crown races.

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.

Tigana finished second to Platini in the race for the Ballon d'Or that year; a testament to the fantastic contribution to his team's success.

I decided to make my pass on the last fire road of the race (Not the finishing stretch) If I didn't make that move, I would have possibly finished with a second place.»

«They had three tough years with McLaren, and to finish fourth in our second race was amazing.