Sentences with phrase «racing career on»

His father, Tom, would have to find another way to burn off the competitive fire that remained from his own bygone racing career on the local late - model circuit.

Several of Corvette Racing's key team members began their racing careers on bullrings, and they bring that hard - edged experience to Lime Rock.

Not exact matches

She drives the final race of her career at the Indy 500 and then will focus full - time on her entrepreneurial goals, (having already written a health and fitness book, launched an apparel line and opened her own vineyard)

Decades after landing on the mainstream radar, RuPaul is experiencing a career renaissance with his smash - hit «RuPaul's Drag Race» in its sixth season on Logo.

Numbers, however, don't capture the frustration that many black executives feel as they try to thrive and compete in a realm where race is often seen as an asterisk on their résumés and an unspoken subtext in conversations about career advancement.

On the surface, the reason for his career switch seems obvious enough: if you're going to be sleep deprived, it might as well be because you're romping through the wilderness, not racing to complete another medical product.

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.

On SI Now, IndyCar racing legend Mario Andretti takes host Maggie Gray for a lap around the track and discusses life after his legendary career.

His single season at Renault was the most competitive car he raced, though he did manage nine podiums during his career - three of which were on home turf in the USA.

1 Ryan Newman's always excelled on Friday — he has 18 poles in NEWMAN 79 career Cup races — and this season he'll be the star on Sundays.

The amount of gameplay footage on show is a major reason for us getting excited, with a career mode trailer, 50 % race at Suzuka and footage of classic McLarens being released recently.

In addition to his four CCWS championships, Bourdais is also the winner of 31 races in his Indy car career, tied with Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy for eighth on the all - time wins list.

«This was probably the one race I looked forward to the least coming to, early on in my NASCAR career.

On how has racing has affected his political career: I attribute my early campaign success to the racetrack.

Despite never winning an F1 race, Cheever still achieved a lot in his varied motorsport career, winning sports car races, finishing runner - up at Le Mans twice, racing in CART and standing on the top step of the podium in IndyCar and winning the famous Indianapolis 500 in 1998.

But while Senna went on to race for front - running teams, Brundle spent a big chunk of his career at midfield outfits and teams struggling financially.

After testing a Formula E car in Mexico this weekend, she's said that aspiring female racing drivers should focus on trying to achieve a career there, rather than in Formula 1.

And as the No. 48 team demonstrated last year, when it struggled for much of the regular season with Johnson going through a career - long 24 - race winless streak before embarking on a title run, there is still ample time to correct any issues before the playoffs begin.

Formula 1 has seen plenty of Belgian drivers winning races and standing on the podium however, and of course there have also been those with less impressive F1 careers, but the same can be said of drivers from most countries.

But ever since then he's been focused on picking up his single - seater career where he left off, and he'll make his racing comeback this weekend.

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With two years left on his contract, Villa want around # 30 million for Benteke and that seems pretty reasonable and I can understand him wanting to further his career, but I wonder if he is putting off our Premier League rivals in the hope of the Gunners joining the race.

The Frenchman had a fabulous career in CART Champ Cars, winning four championships and 31 races including two on ovals, and spent a season - and - a-half in Formula One.

The angel was on Longden's shoulder as he won 6,032 races, among those the 1943 Triple Crown aboard Count Fleet, in a career that spanned five decades.

With 108 wins already this year, Desormeaux has won 2,478 races in his young career; that puts him on a pace to pass Bill Shoemaker (who retired at age 59 with a record 8,833 victories) in about 20 years should Desormeaux ride well for that long.

Instead, he went on to completely dominate the race, leading every lap from pole and setting fastest lap to give him both the lead in the championship and the only grand slam of his career.

His performance over the last few races could be the only stumbling block to Sainz's career, because the Hulk is on fire at the moment.

Irvine spent much of his early career racing in Japan, so when Eddie Jordan needed a driver for the Japanese GP in 1993, he called on Irvine's services.

He just missed out on a McLaren drive in 1987 and ultimately ended up with Tyrrell, where four races into the season he finally scored his first career points after finishing fifth in Monaco.

Eduardo Barrichello is about to follow in his father's footsteps and embark on his own single - seater career, and the 15 - year - old recently got to sample the machinery his dad currently races.

Manchester City are leading the race for the 30 - year old, but the manager wants to persuade him not to give up on his career at Madrid.

Born on 18th July 1987, the ball - winning defensive midfielder began his career at Racing Club de Avellaneda, making his senior debut in the Argentine...

On taking to the track on home soil, Doyle said: «Competing in Scotland is always incredible — 2014 is undeniably one of the highlights of my career, so it is amazing to have the opportunity to race in front of a packed and roaring home crowd once again.&raquOn taking to the track on home soil, Doyle said: «Competing in Scotland is always incredible — 2014 is undeniably one of the highlights of my career, so it is amazing to have the opportunity to race in front of a packed and roaring home crowd once again.&raquon home soil, Doyle said: «Competing in Scotland is always incredible — 2014 is undeniably one of the highlights of my career, so it is amazing to have the opportunity to race in front of a packed and roaring home crowd once again.»

«I want to move on, and I will give the best driving ever in the next eight races for my team because they deserve that and they will see the best form ever in my career.»

Sergio Perez: «It was probably the hardest race of my career, on a weekend in which I feared I would need to give up.

Ms. Briccetti's notable career achievements include serving as assistant counsel to the New York State Senate majority, as a legislative aide and counsel to the New York State Assembly majority committee on Racing and Wagering, and special counsel in the New York State Attorney General's office.

The gubernatorial losers are just another example of the fact that losing a race can often be a comma, rather than a period, on a political career.

«I am in this race to build on my career of fighting for middle - class families and improving the lives of working New Yorkers.

First, it's a rarity to see three popular elected officials risk their political careers on a race against one another.

He has spent most of his career as a political operative, working on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign in Pennsylvania and leading Syracuse Common Councilor Joe Carni's successful race last year.

The U.S. Supreme Court was about to rule on whether colleges could use race - conscious admissions policies when the directors of the undergraduate Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program gathered last month in California for their annual meeting.

This latest research has focused on the genetics of durability — or how sound a horse is — including factors such as career length and number of races.

question lies at the base of all these questions as there is not particularly good data on how many post-docs there are in the U.S., their makeup (in terms of nationality, gender, race, etc), or their career outcomes.

Plus, Phil Keoghan of «The Amazing Race» on the exciting re-emergence of bicycle racing in Barcelona, Milan and soon, London; James Brown reports on Morgan Wootten, the high school basketball coach who's career win tally has only been bested by one other coach at any level of the sport in history; and humorous sports commentary by Robert Wuhl.

The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.

While racing back to Asgard to protect it from her, however, Thor and Loki are knocked out of the rainbow tunnel and land on a random junk planet run by a Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum, now at the stage of his career where he starts playing himself) who befriends Loki and forces Thor to be a gladiator.

The game asks a lot of you, but if you put in the time in practice and qualifying, and race the full season, there's a satisfying feeling of progression, not just in your career path but your skills on the track, as well.

Even though it's on the Wii, it attempts to give you everything you could want from a racing sim: a decent career mode, tuning options, and options to make the game more like the real thing.

As a simulation, it doesn't hold a candle to some of the games offered on the PC, but it makes up for it with its breadth of career mode features that help make it more than just a racing game, but a racing RPG of sorts.

Unlike most games where you go into the game selection screen, and then onto the career mode to be given a run down on the story, Pro Race Driver wastes no time to get you right in the midst of the storyline.