Sentences with phrase «racing championship in»

The game uses the official license of the Super GT Series, a highly popular sports car racing championship in Japan.

This feature is designed to give users the opportunity to be part of the most competitive and highest - profile off - road motorcycle racing championship in the world like never before; creating, customising and sharing online their own tracks for endless gameplay possibilities.

Stewart became the first African - American to win a major motor racing championship in 2007 and followed up with another Supercross title in 2009.

We expect strong grids in 2017, once again making the Milltek Sport Volkswagen Racing Cup by far the most successful manufacturer - backed race championship in the UK.

Not exact matches

I certainly enjoyed racing in Formula One and in the all the racing series where I competed, including the championship years in SCCA.

For Vonn, who has four World Cup championships and raced in more World Cup events than any other American in addition to her Olympic medals, monetary success came in the form of lucrative endorsements.

In the 2014 US championship road race, Phinney crashed hard into a guardrail while trying to avoid hitting a race motorcycle.

In the 2014 US championship road race, he crashed hard into guardrail while trying to avoid a race motorcycle.

The partnership makes sense: Both Eneos and Larson are emerging brands in the U.S. and in Nascar: Eneos has enjoyed steady growth, and Kyle won his first Sprint Cup race earlier this year, and also qualified for Nascar's Chase (championship playoff).

Soon enough the championships started rolling in for his racing teams, too.

Unfortunately for young driver Todd Hazelwood, that's exactly what happened when he tangled with Jonathon Webb during the first qualifying race for the Sandown 500, the first of three endurance events in the Supercars championship.

It becomes even more outstanding when you think of the technology and development involved in creating an autonomous race car, that'll be in an actual championship some point in the future.

David is currently racing in his final season in karting, and is second in the German championship after three of the five rounds.

Yohan Blake beat Usain Bolt in the 100 - and 200 - meter dashes at the Jamaican Olympic trials, won the 2011 world championship in the 100m — a race in which Bolt did not participate — and was viewed as the reason Bolt wasn't a runaway favorite to repeat his stunning feat from the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

The Mucke Motorsport team has raced with pink cars in the DTM for the last couple of years thanks to their association with the same sponsor, and this year will see the pink BWT - liveries expand into the German Formula 4 and GT championships as well.

F4 is a good training ground for categories further up the ladder and who knows, maybe in a few years we'll have two Schumachers racing in the same championship.

He's also raced in the international OK championships and claimed 13th in the CIK - FIA European series, as well as 14th in the WSK Super Masters.

If Young Bill Buchan Jr., the Seattle skipper who piloted a Luders 16 to a clear - cut victory in the annual North American Sailing championships, remains anything close to the coolheaded, calm - browed competitor he was this last week at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, it is going to take some doing to beat him in future races.

BOATING — TED TURNER of Atlanta won the World 5.5 - meter sailing championships with four victories in seven races off Oyster Bay, N.Y. Turner finished with the low score of 16.7, David Forbes of Sydney, Australia was second with 32.7 and King Olav of Norway third with 37.7.

The result was a major championship schedule that looked something more like horse racing's triple crown, a nearly untenable travel schedule for players, and a fourth major championship that many fans might just look over due to the temporary, crammed - in date.

From that came the implementation of a three - stage format that incentivizes drivers with bonus points that apply toward the championship so that they push hard from green flag to checkered flag in every regular season race.

Since his few races for Manor in 2015 Rossi ended up making a name for himself in IndyCar, winning the 2016 Indy 500 as a rookie and establishing himself as one of the championship's most talented young drivers.

On this day in 1992 three drivers battled for the championship in one of the most iconic races in British motorsport history

Schemes like the Red Bull programme and its Mercedes / Ferrari counterparts pretty much cover all the costs of a race season, meaning that in the championships that followed such as Formula Renault 3.5 and GP2 Gasly didn't need to find money or a good seat, because Red Bull was helping to sort it all out for him.

Marcus Ericsson retired early on with a hydraulics issue, but Charles Leclerc finished the race in 13th place, 75 - seconds adrift of winner Vettel and just 30 - seconds adrift of 10th place and a championship point.

Giuseppe Farina won the first championship race in F1 at Silverstone on 13 May in 1950 and went on to claim the drivers» title too.

With the Pole only securing a reserve role at Williams this year, his schedule potentially looked open for him to compete in some other championship to keep his race skills sharp.

Whilst Arnoux was a race winner and qualifying beast (he took 18 poles, more than any other driver without a championship), Cheever never quite managed to reach the top step during his time in F1 from 1978 to 1989.

Despite only competing in seven of the 14 races, Hesketh's efforts were enough to give March fifth in the constructors» championship - ahead of even Ferrari!

A quick look at the stats for the Brabham BT26 tells you that it was on pole five times, won two races and finished runner - up in the 1969 constructors» championship.

The team, called FA Racing G2 Logitech G, will race in various different championships on a range of different games.

Professional bicycle racing was at its peak in the United States when Marshall Walter (Major) Taylor, one of eight children of a Negro Civil War veteran, won the 1899 world championship and the U.S. title a year later.

With Nelson Piquet out of the race (and already champion) and Nigel Mansell having to miss the last two rounds through injury, second was enough to give Senna the runner - up spot in the championship.

In winning his 17th consecutive road race over the last seven months, Bill Rodgers discovered that the Diet Pepsi 10,000 - meter national championship hit the spot

It wasn't enough to win the title, but he set up his championship - winning season in 2016 by taking victory at the first four races, giving him a seven - race run of P1 finishes.

Jenson Button was desperate to secure the 2009 world championship with a race to spare in 2009, but with teammate and title rival Rubens Barrichello (yes, he did once get sorta close to actually winning one!)

He was still leading the championship heading in the the final round in Fuji, but the race was so wet that he couldn't see properly as a result of his burns and withdrew from the race, allowing Hunt to finish third and win the title.

The initial plan was to have the grid for the sprint race set in reverse championship order and whilst that would almost certainly be exciting, apparently it was seen as too artificial and has been dropped.

Clark's second and final F1 championship was won in style back in 1965 with a five - race run of victories, from the sport's trip to Spa in Belgium to the German GP at the Nurburgring.

Heading into the final race of 2012 Alonso was challenging Sebastian Vettel for the championship whilst Massa had scored just one podium all season and was way down in seventh in the points standings.

So, absolutely huge changes in the NASCAR race format and championship decider.

As well as going off and winning championships in both Formula E and WEC, he's still a reserve driver for Red Bull Racing, and Helmut Marko once said that of all the drivers that slipped off of Red Bull's ladder, Buemi was the best.

10 years later and a Ferrari driver is once again way behind Lewis Hamilton in the championship with only a few races to go.

But in the race Barrichello dropped back and eventually got a puncture, whilst Button fought his way up to fifth in a fine display of overtaking and took a remarkable championship victory for the Brawn team.

On a day when Vettel scored a big fat zero, that means Hamilton has a 28 point lead in the championship over his rival with just six races left to go.

In 2007 Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was able to win six races and the championship in an incredibly closely - fought season with McLaren drivers Fernando Alonso and a rookie Lewis HamiltoIn 2007 Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was able to win six races and the championship in an incredibly closely - fought season with McLaren drivers Fernando Alonso and a rookie Lewis Hamiltoin an incredibly closely - fought season with McLaren drivers Fernando Alonso and a rookie Lewis Hamilton.

Felipe Massa did everything right in the final race at Interlagos as he tried to win the 2008 championship and thanks to a late rain shower, a Sebastian Vettel overtake, and a strategy gamble by Toyota, it almost worked out for him.

«Doing this race is some kind of first step in endurance championship [driving], how these races are and how much I enjoy these races.

Eight highly talented contenders are racing for the championship... even as the league claims that three quarters of its franchises are swimming in red ink.

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 lisIn 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 lisin his Indy car career, tied with Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy for eighth on the all - time wins list.