Sentences with phrase «race to the finish on»

For instance, play chicken with Banzai Bills on Banzai Bill's Mad Mountain and try your luck to see whether risky moves get you to the finish first, or collect boosters to tune up your rocket and race to the finish on Rocket Road.

As the player you race to the finish on a pig and can use various powerups to disable your opponent and take the lead.

Not exact matches

Gilmour went on to create the packaging for some of the company's most successful brands — including Luna, Builder's, Mojo, and Shot, which shows an athlete poised in the running blocks before a race, instead of the traditional imagery that shows someone crossing the finish line.

The challenges of the race forced teammates to rely on each other and overcome obstacles to reach the finish line.

Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure - cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26 - year - old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee.

He goes into every race with a tiered list of goals: to win, to finish in the top three, to set a personal best, and so on.

For retailers and small and medium sized business (SMB) owners, the winter holiday months are the last lap in a long race to finish out the year on a high note.

Audi's Super Bowl ad features a young girl blazing to a first - place finish in a go - cart race while her father, standing on the sidelines, wonders how he can explain to his daughter why it is that men are paid more than women.

Tipping his hat to Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss, who came up with the concept of the race to $ 1 trillion in a recent research note on Microsoft, Cramer decided to look at all four contenders and speculate on which one might cross the «finish line» first.

House Republican tax writers are still holing up in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building, racing to finish their work on a sprawling rewrite of the tax code.

I was up early enough to see the start of the race on TV and am hoping to catch some of the racers at the finish line near where we live!

My wonderful parents came to the race and cheered us on throughout the course, at miles 5, 9, 19, and the finish line.

After receiving three days of intensive, hands - on training, they move on to the main event, which includes menu planning and writing, staggered start times, mad dashes to the pantry and feverish races to the finish line, all familiar elements to aficionados of the kitchen - gladiator genre.

Having failed to qualify for the previous race René Arnoux managed to finish fifth by virtue of simply staying on the track to score his first points for two years, and the last of his career.

It seems to me that Sanchez is disrupting the whole dressing room, leaving our club to fall out of the title race, and are now on course to miss out on a top four finish for the first time since 1995.

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.

He quickly raced out to a share of the lead on Thursday morning, and then finished up with a 4 - under 68 that has him in prime position for another weekend of contention.

Forty - one hours after embarking on the hiking leg that took the lead teams 12 hours to finish, the captain of Team Moron, as it had come to be known, used his emergency radio to make contact with race headquarters.

Although Emanuele Pirro couldn't escape pre-qualifying this time, his Scuderia Italia teammate JJ Lehto did - and went on to finish third in the race!

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.

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!

Officials signed off on the request, with two caveats he must fulfill: 1) Busch needed to win one of the 15 remaining regular season races and 2) finish 30th or better in the standings.

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.

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).

Watching these stoic men and women care for their dogs — despite their own obvious fatigue — then push off on the final 22 - mile stretch run to the finish in Nome, proved to me that this race is the ultimate iron - will event.

Jimmie Johnson has just one top - 10 finish so far in 2018, but will try to get back on track at a race track where he has won seven times before.

No matter what followed afterward, it's inexcusable for a car multiple laps down to stop on the race track with two laps to go when it was evident to everyone the No. 10 wasn't going to be able to make it to the finish.

Since Daytona, Patrick had finished 39th, 33rd, 28th and 26th in the races preceding Martinsville and had failed to finish on the same lap as the leaders.

Jones was leading the race when she tripped on the ninth hurdle causing her to stumble and finish in seventh place.

Spurs narrowly missed out on the Champions League places last year, finishing just one point behind north London rivals Arsenal in a race that went down to the final day of the season.

Still, it could be argued that actually Rodgers really benefitted from a specific set of circumstances that year — Luis Suarez being at the very top of his game (something that would have happened under any manager), Daniel Sturridge staying relatively injury free (clearly a bit of a one - off, based on his record since), and above all a lack of real competition elsewhere: Chelsea were in transition and poor in their first season with Jose Mourinho back at the helm, Arsenal imploded as they usually do after a fine start, and Manchester United were nowhere to be seen in terms of the title race with David Moyes» disastrous reign seeing them finish 7th and struggling to cope with the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson.

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.

- Nico Hulkenberg has never managed to win the Le Mans 24 Hours and finish on the podium in an F1 race during the same year.

Louis van Gaal lost both Anthony Martial and Matteo Darmian before kick off and in the first half respectively, as they bid to apply pressure on their rivals above them in the race for a top - four finish.

«One more like this, and the race is on,» said Mark Martin on Sunday after closing to within 168 points of Jarrett with a fourth - place finish.

Schumacher had lead pretty much the entire race, and on the last lap he slowed to allow his team mate to catch up for a formation finish.

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.

While not a complete soaker there are challenges to get the race started on time and even finished.

Most racing drivers cross the finish line to take the chequered flag with all four wheels (or two, if they're racing motorbikes) on their wagon.

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.

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.

Add to that the 25 - mph head winds expected for the first half of the race and the rolling terrain of Central Park in the last three miles and El Mouaziz, a poor finisher known to crumble on hills, barely seemed to stand a chance.

Lotus driver Elio de Angelis was told he'd finished on the podium and so went up to celebrate with race - winner Patrese.

Juve travel to Florence to take on Fiorentina the night before, and so wins over Lazio and the Viola in their upcoming fixtures would certainly end all talk of a title race given their straight - forward finish to the campaign thereafter.

Franchitti added that he is more focused on finishing this season than looking ahead to how many more seasons he would continue to race.

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