Sentences with phrase «race wins before»

Red Bull could add to their growing tally of race wins before this season is over; that's according to Christian Horner.

Not exact matches

She has four world championship medals and won her last World Cup race before heading to Pyeongchang.

Richard Brandt, a former NYU professor of sports physics, explains how to predict who will win a sprint race before it even begins.

«It breaks the monotony,» says Kevin Cordes, an American swimmer who won a gold in the 4 X 100 medley relay and says he had a burger before his first race in Rio.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Something that rankled both Kenseth and crew chief Jason Ratcliff for some time, compounded by the No. 20 failing to win a race this season before Sunday.

I've won the race before, in 2009, and it's one of my all - time favourite racetracks.

The eventual 2009 F1 champion had come close to wins in his breakthrough season with BAR Honda in 2004, before a tough 2005 that featured a disqualification and two missed races.

Before that, he won the Baja 1,000 off - road motorcycle race in 2002 and was the top finisher from the Western Hemisphere in the 2003 Paris - Dakar Rally, covering 7,000 miles through the African desert in 19 days.

But whilst his determination was impressive he wasn't the driver he had been before the accident, and aside from a non-championship win at Silverstone in 1971 the best he could hope to achieve was the occasional points finish in attritional races.

With great haste, he moved to second before dispatching leader Jimmie Johnson to win his 30th career race.

The Braves were unbeaten in four games, the rest of the league was staggering, and horrible visions of another 1955, when the Dodgers won 10 straight and 22 of their first 24 to turn the pennant race into a shambles, danced before the National League's eyes.

The defending Cup champion won two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway, the final race before the Easter holiday break.

The Form shows Lebón is fromUruguay, that he has not won in 10 months, that he finished 11th of 12 starterstwo weeks before at Belmont in his first race in the U.S..

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.

Finland and Norway staged a remarkable race in the men's 40 - kilometer relay, the famous old Finn, Veikko Hakulinen, who had won a gold medal at Oslo in»52 and another at Cortina in» 56, lunging ahead of the Norwegian, Haakon Brusveen, winner of a gold medal in the 15 - kilometer race just two days before, by the length of a ski right at the finish.

It was mentioned before that Swansea, Crystal Palace, Watford, Bournemouth and Southampton were all interested in the England Under 21 star, but it seems the latter, Southampton, are going to win the race for Chambers.

He won the Scottish Formula Ford title in 2007 and won several national championships before a lack of budget cut his stint in racing short, so he switched to sim racing.

The race proved to be a hugely exciting one, with youngster Jean Alesi and the great Ayrton Senna battling at the front before Senna eventually moved clear and won the race.

Before Allegra won the Adams Cup (it was her third) the big 210 hulls had to slice through 53 miles of race course.

The seven races for which Amy says he accepted fix money — to hold horses back, take them wide or fail to warm them up properly before a race — were all trifecta events, with the ultimate payoffs ranging from $ 911 to $ 5,394 for each winning $ 2 trifecta ticket.

In qualifying for the last race of the year at Watkins Glen (where he'd won two years before) Cevert lost control and fatally crashed.

Before the Bristol race Jarrett had 20 top 10 finishes — the key to winning the season title — in 22 races and led Martin in the standings by 314 points.

From 247 entries and 246 starts, the Scottish driver won 13 races and scored 535 points before exiting in disappointing style at the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix.

There was then his race - winning and almost title - winning run at Ferrari, before he found a home at current team Williams.

Only a single driver had not won a race before the start of the season.

Giroud and Sanchez were joint top scorers for Arsenal with 13 before the game and both added one to their tallies as Arsenal raced to their seventh Premiership win in a row, but Giroud still refuses to worry about going all the way to the top of the table just yet.

He'll drive on day one, before handing over to Pierre Gasly — a long - time Red Bull and Toro Rosso tester, who won the GP2 championship last year and is currently racing in Super Formula.

The reason it didn't help was that Cincinnati must first win the Missouri Valley Conference race before getting a chance to defend its national title in the NCAA tournament.

But Gulch had raced twice in 1987, winning the seven - furlong Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct two weeks before, and he had the home - court advantage.

If you lose that race then Huddersfield will win the title again before us.

The British racing driver has had an unusual journey up the single - seater ladder, enjoying success in Formula BMW before winning the 2012 British Formula 3 championship and taking race victories in GP3.

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.

The Ferrari 156/85 was, unsurprisingly, the car Ferrari used in 1985 and Johansson's team - mate Michele Alboreto came close to winning the championship with it, before five consecutive car failures in the last five races scuppered his chances.

Or maybe he should have listened to Neil Bonnett, who before the race said, «I don't know if there's a car around here strong enough to win from the lead.

De Cesaris meanwhile came incredibly close to winning the race before his engine blew three laps from the end - if Schumacher had made it to the end, might he have won on his debut?

Jackie Stewart almost won the 1966 race on his debut before dropping to 9th with a car issue, and in 1967 was running third until a car issue again thwarted his efforts.

Little did he know it would be another 12 years before he'd win another major race.

Michael Schumacher had been on course to win the race before he dropped back with a gearbox issue, but he felt no malice towards the guy who'd inherited his win and gave him a ride back.

Although 44 - years - old in 1970 «Black Jack» was still as quick as ever, having won the season - opening race in South Africa and been running second in Spain before his engine failed.

in this forum for YEARS — during those times when we won squat, sold our best players to our rivals and got out of the title race before November.

But before the start at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, Gordon's shot at the bonus, which goes to any driver who wins three of four designated races during the season, wasn't accorded huge significance, even by the 26 - year - old Gordon.

He won the LatoniaDerby, the Tennessee Derby, the Clark Handicap, and he believes he would havewon the Detroit Derby instead of finishing second if he hadn't eaten so muchwatermelon just before the race.

United are 16 points behind rivals Manchester City in the Premier League title race, with their hopes of finally winning the trophy again after a long wait surely already over before the end of February.

When Bill Elliott — the only driver before Gordon to win the bonus — bagged the Winston Million in 1985, it marked stock car racing's biggest payday, quadrupling the prize for the Winston Cup season championship.

With just one more race left before the championship race at Homestead - Miami there couldn't be more on the line for the drivers wanting a spot at a chance to win a championships.

The two drivers had agreed before the race that whoever led into the first corner would win the race and Coulthard was simply keeping his word, but the whole thing just seemed bizarre.

Felipe Massa won the next three races, with Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel standing on the top step of the podium before the race was ditched.

Montoya won the Indy 500 on his first attempt in 2000 before racing in F1.

Their form in the league wasn't great either, as they followed a 5 - 0 thumping of Aston Villa with disappointing draws with Chelsea and Everton, and were then beaten in a crucial game with Manchester United, who won 3 - 2 at the Etihad Stadium with a last - minute winner from none other than Robin van Persie, who was indeed making a huge difference in the title race, as his goal put six points between league leaders United and City, giving Mancini's side a real uphill task to retain their title even before the half - way point of the season.