Rather than run around screaming about it, people of this terrible future take the tack of, «When life gives you lemons, build a deadly
race track out of lemons,» and turn all this destruction into an opportunity for some remarkably dangerous auto racing.
Against the Golden Tornados, the El Paso Herald - Post reported, the Bears «made
a race track out of the diamond.»
Not exact matches
I remember interviewing someone years ago who claimed to be an avid
track race driver, which it turns
out I also happen to be.
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.
So, first practice for this weekend's MotoGP
race at Barcelona was his first time trying
out the
track revisions and it seems he didn't actually realise.
If fenders aren't added, Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith won't rule
out discontinuing IRL
races on his
tracks near Atlanta, Charlotte, Fort Worth (two events) and Las Vegas.
In true F1 fashion, the circuit changed for rFactor 2 and while it was turned into a proper
race track with multiple layouts, it missed
out the best corners on the
track.
Incredibly, just an hour after the crash, he was back
out on
track competing in the Dunlop Super2 Series support
race, where he finished on the podium.
Daniel Ricciardo isn't holding
out much hope for
racing to be better at other
tracks this season because the current generation of cars are too big and too aerodynamically complex
Now, his son Mick — who is
racing in European Formula 3 this year — has tried the car
out for size, testing it at the Spa - Francorchamps
track in Belgium.
The
track was also breaking up and several drivers went
out of the
race as a result of hitting the wall.
Because Daytona hosts plenty of
racing at night the cars also went
out in the dark, so driver Martin Lanting also got some great footage of him lapping the
track under lights.
Anyone that thinks they have it all figured
out as far as who we take should bet on the
race track and maybe the lottery.
The Monterey Motorsports Reunion event at the epic Laguna Seca circuit is one of the stand -
out historic
racing events of the whole year, as all sorts of different cars take to the
track for a series of short demonstrations and
races.
-- The
race track at Shanghai is laid
out in the shape of the Chinese character «Shang», which means «Boring Grand Prix» in Chinese.
The department's Organized Crime Strike Force maintains that in 1974 - 75 a group of gamblers, working for organized crime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged
races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars
out of New York
tracks.
That is, even though the horses have gone on to another
track, the horseplayers would turn
out as usual, watch piped - in tote - board figures and see closed - circuit telecasts from the distant
tracks (both before and during the
races) and make their bets at the old familiar windows.
That would turn
out to be the only points finish of his Formula 1 career, though at the same
track in 1956 he became the oldest driver to start a
race (he was 56) and two years later (at 58) the oldest driver to enter a
race, though he failed to qualify.
The old layout was pretty much a flat -
out blast through some of the most feared corners in motor
racing, and it was up there with the old Silverstone layout and Monza as one of the fastest
tracks in the history of the sport.
Ferrari pulled
out of prototype
racing at the end of 1973 in order to focus on F1, but 20 years later a Ferrari sports prototype was seen at
race tracks once more - although it had actually been built by Dallara and wasn't run by the Ferrari factory team.
Come check
out the
races and the beautiful newly rebuilt
track this weekend!
Between warm - up and the
race a downpour soaked the
track, and the wet surface caught
out several drivers at the start, including pole - sitter Michael Schumacher.
Early on the morning of Monday, April 20, trainer Bennie (Chip) Woolley Jr. loaded him into a three - stall horse trailer and set
out withgroom — exercise rider Charlie Figueroa from Sunland Park
Race Track in NewMexico, 10 miles west of El Paso.
As the
track dried
out he actually began to reel the Spaniard back in and for a while it looked like he could actually win the
race, but a small off just a few laps from the end meant he had to settle for second.
Though the sun was
out by
race time, water was still standing on the
track.
With barriers preventing them from cutting across and rejoining the
track both drivers had to stop in the gravel, where they got promptly beached and were
out of the
race.
After all, when drivers stop
out on the
track towards the end of the
race or after the chequered flag has fallen, why would they walk back to the paddock or endure a wild ride on the back of a marshal's moped?
Sean Gelael clipped the wall and completely blocked the
track, bringing
out the red flags and ending the
race
The safety car came
out in the hope the
track could be cleared by the time the leaders got around, but eventually the red flag had to be thrown and the
race ended, with Ferrari junior Charles Leclerc winning from McLaren junior Nyck de Vries.
Much of the
race was wet and as the
track began to dry
out, Schumacher ran wide at Stavelot, dropping him behind teammate Martin Brundle.
In a 1992 article in The North American Review entitled «The Corruption of Nobility: The Rise & Fall of Thoroughbred
Racing in America,» Ferraro penned a stinging rebuke against drug abuse on the backstretch, saying, «In general, treatments designed to repair a horse's injuries and to alleviate its suffering are now often used to get the animal
out onto the
track to compete — to force the animal, like some punch - drunk fighter, to make just one more round.
Winning Pick - Six payoff at Del Mar for former Vikings head coach Mike Tice (
out of football since being fired as the Bears» offensive coordinator last January), the only bettor at the
track to pick the winners of
races 3 through 8.
The Russian Grand Prix has never been a stand -
out race on the F1 schedule, the Sochi Autodrom is twisty and technical but hasn't produced particularly thrilling on -
track action since its 2014 debut.
And if when we get to more normal
tracks the
racing turns
out to be better then who knows: could it end up being an all - time classic like 2008 and 2012 were?
With his F3 car stuck in the middle of the
track, the marshals couldn't get the yellow flags
out in time before Guan Yu Zhou ploughed into the side of him at
racing speed.
Passengers got to experience a live
race track up close as the bus was sent
out on
track during the first free practice session
The British driver has been aided by a dominant car in recent years, but managing to stay
out of trouble on
track for 28 consecutive
races is an incredible feat.
A win for the Gunners will keep them on
track for a title challenge and will also effectively knock the Red Devils
out of the
race for the top four.
That would have been hilarious enough, but the organisers decided that having 23 bikes
racing out of the pit exit on cold slicks on a damp
track was too dangerous, so they delayed the start.
It's run at a completely different time of day to the qualifying or
race sessions, and the
track was very dirty because we were the first cars
out for the weekend.
There is a respect factor
out there on the
race track and you can certainly do a better job sometimes when you're around some of those guys that you may or may not necessarily like.
So decrees Bill Lear of Lear Jet fame, who is building steam
race cars — honest — for Indianapolis to glamorize steam passenger cars to be and also is carving
out an Indy test
track (above) in Nevada
It's been a while since he
raced on some of the old - school British
track he remembers them fondly, singling
out Donington Park in particular as the sort of challenge he misses in F1.
«I think this
track, because it's quite grippy, I think it took the steam
out of everybody and it ended up just being a
race where you could just follow and sit in a lot more,» Trott told British Cycling.
«I need to just do what I was doing at Toro Rosso, having a good
race every time I go
out on
track, and then things fall for themselves, like it did at Toro Rosso.
That was the final standings in the Diamond
Race, too, with Harper - Nelson, who crashed
out and failed to make the final in Beijing, demonstrating her delight by doing cartwheels on the
track.
Bon dancing happens in concentric circles and there was a dance floor especially laid
out for it, like a little
race track around the fountain.
Right this second, I'm not particularly interested in signing up for another
race, but I would like to sit down and map
out a self - care plan — both the fitness side and also I'm thinking about
tracking my food and beverage consumption via MyFitnessPal for a few weeks to recalibrate.
I shared 25 fun writing activities here - from writing
out a script for a play they can act
out with friends to making a treasure map to using sidewalk chalk to create a town or
race track for their toy cars.
Or consider JB Priestley's account of travelling
out of London in 1933 along the Great Western road and confronting the endless, low - density exurbia of ribbon sprawl: «We might suddenly have rolled into California... This is the England of arterial and by - pass roads, of filling stations and factories that look like exhibition buildings, of giant cinemas and dance - halls and cafes, bungalows with tiny garages, cocktail bars, Woolworths, motor - coaches, wireless, hiking, factory girls looking like actresses, grey - hound
racing and dirt
tracks, swimming pools, and everything given away for cigarette coupons.»