Sentences with phrase «racing checkered flag»

It has always incorporated a pair of flags, one a racing checkered flag and other featuring the Chevrolet «bowtie» emblem and a French fleur - de-lis.

While the design has evolved with the sports car over the years, it has always incorporated a pair of flags — one a racing checkered flag, and the other featuring the Chevy «bowtie» and the French fleur - de-lis which is a nod to Chevrolet founder Louis Chevrolet.

Not exact matches

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.

SI predicts how the Nextel Cup standings will look once the checkered flag waves on the final race, in Homestead, Fla., on Nov. 21.

Ambrose, the Australian regarded as NASCAR's top road racing talent, won Monday's delayed race at Watkins Glen, passing Brad Keselowski on the penultimate lap and dashing to the checkered flag as chaos ensued behind him.

Harvick and Bowyer combined to win four of the last five races, with Bowyer winning in Martinsville and Harvick winning three straight, including two checkered flags on the west coast swing.

Five different drivers have won a race at this early stage of the season, including Jimmie Johnson, who has taken the checkered flag in this race twice since 2007.

Harvick and Keselowski had the two best cars a year ago at Atlanta; Harvick won the pole and led a race - high 292 laps, while Keselowski took the checkered flag after Harvick was penalized for speeding on pit road during his final stop.

The man and the event are synonymous; no one has ever gained so much attention for losing a race as Petty did at the Daytona 500 in 1976, when he and David Pearson crashed into each other with the checkered flag in sight.

The Furniture Row Racing driver and current championship leader took the checkered flag in the Hollywood Casino 400 Sunday at Kansas Speedway.

«Disappointed not to finish the race because obviously every race you compete, you want to be at the checkered flag,» Alonso said.

«We were racing to the checkered flag and I have no reason to do anything on purpose for fourth place.

Last year Stoffel didn't even make the start in Bahrain, he was pulling the car into the pitlane so this year from two races four cars to the checkered flag and third in the constructors» championship.

A Ganassi driverhasn't won a Nextel Cup race since Jamie McMurray took the checkered flag inCharlotte in October 2002.

Two laps later the race was effectively ended when Jimmy Spencer hit the wall, bringing out the caution flag that would fly alongside the checkered.

Busch has only picked up a single checkered flag since, and led all of eight laps in the past eight races.

Kyle Busch led for 116 laps and took the Checkered Flag to win his first race of 2018!

Guests of Italian descent included House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., the highest - ranking Italian - American in U.S. politics; former race car driver Mario Andretti, who sported socks designed like a checkered racing flag; fashion designer Giorgio Armani; actor John Turturro; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; and actor - director Roberto Benigni.

On top of that, Rockstar will be including new and strategically placed checkpoints in the game, which will «instantly change your vehicle class to match the portion of the course ahead, creating dynamic racing with ever shifting challenges to take the checkered flag...»

Oh, it's still a Cars movie — you still get Owen Wilson's McQueen whizzing past checkered flags, in racing sequences that look like a NASCAR enthusiast's nocturnal emissions.

Sadly, at the end of that ill - fated lap, race control would show two flags on account of the deluge of rain: a red flag (indicating the race has come to an emergency stop) as well as the checkered flag.

But it's incredibly rare that an active race car, let alone one that just took one checkered flag and will be taking another green in just a matter of weeks, is dropped into the press day scrum during an auto show.

The exterior of the DS3 Racing is done in a special livery featuring «DS3,» «Citroën Racing,» and checkered flag graphics on the roof, the rear wheel arches, under the side mirrors, and next to the fuel filler cap.

The compact, nimble 356 already possessed all the right attributes, winning the positive reviews of critics, the dollars of enthusiasts, and the checkered flags of many races.

The Zagato would make a formidable drift - challenge entry, and it did prove its worth at the 24 - hour race at the Nuerburgring in 2011, where both preproduction cars saw the checkered flag.

Colin Chapman once described the perfect race engine for his Formula 1 Lotus cars as one that would blow itself up as soon as his car took the checkered flag.

In his more than a decade of racing in the IndyCar series, Brazilian Tony Kanaan has had multiple second and third - place finishes in the historic Memorial Day weekend race, but has never taken the checkered flag.

In 1936, a 747 - cc Datsun Midget took the checkered flag, and we haven't stopped racing — and winning — since.

The No. 25 BMW M8 GTE of Connor De Phillippi and Alexander Sims raced to a well - deserved second place finish in today's IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio, taking the checkered flag 1.673 seconds behind the race winning No. 912 Porsche.

The anticlimactic finish denied Corvette Racing a hard - earned run to the checkered flag.

After the turn of fortune seven laps later, the checkered flag signaled Corvette Racing's first win in 2010.

Corvette Racing has won the checkered flag seven times during the ALMS era but has yet to see the winners circle in GT2 Corvette C6.R.

Fellows Named Most Popular Driver, Gongla Wins GT1 Crew Chief of the Year Award MONTEREY, Calif. — The checkered flag at the conclusion of the Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Oct. 21 marked the end of the 2007 American Le Mans Series season, but Chevrolet's factory road racing team kept on winning.

After 24 hours of hard racing, the C7.Rs finished 2nd and 4th in the GTE Pro class with the checkered flag belonging to Ferrari.

In 1936, a 747 cc Datsun Midget took the checkered flag, and we haven't stopped racing — and winning — since.

Saturday's Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta is the final race of the 2015 TUDOR United Sports Car Championship season and the GTLM Drivers Championship title won't be determined until the checkered flags waves following 10 hours of racing.

«It's not simply a race to the checkered flag — the Green Challenge takes science, technology and engineering to an entirely new level in motorsports.»

While some teams will celebrate ALMS championships when the checkered flag falls at Laguna Seca, Corvette Racing will savor different rewards.

ALMS Champion will travel by helicopter, airplane and automobile to Watkins Glen PORTLAND — Chevrolet Corvette factory driver Ron Fellows will depart today's American Le Mans Series race immediately after the checkered flag drops at 3:45 p.m. PDT.

PORTLAND — Chevrolet Corvette factory driver Ron Fellows will depart today's American Le Mans Series race immediately after the checkered flag drops at 3:45 p.m. PDT.

«After having technical issues in qualifying and Race 1, we drove from P31 to P4 [overall], so people already know we fight until the checkered flag,» said Spinelli.

While at the races, fans are able to watch the team work from the moment when the Corvette C7.Rs are off - loaded from the trailers to the waving of the checkered flag.

BRASELTON, Ga. — Twenty - four hours after the checkered flag fell at the season - ending Petit Le Mans, the roar of racing engines was replaced by applause, toasts, and words of gratitude as the American Le Mans Series celebrated its champions.

The original emblem used racing's checkered flag crossed with the American flag.

The race was slowed twice, the first for the No. 87 Absolute Bentley Continental GT3 of Will Stevens, which stopped on track, prior to a multi-car accident involving the No. 63 DXDT Racing Mercedes - AMG GT3, No. 77 Calvert Dynamics Porsche and No. 88 Absolute Bentley, which set up the run to the checkered flag.

Hard contact took out the No. 3 Corvette C6.R in 2010, and last year both Corvettes were caught up in a chain - reaction accident early in the race that relegated them to ninth and 10th at the checkered flag.

He was the Monster Truck Racing Association rookie driver of the year and the 2013 Checkered Flag Promotions racing chaRacing Association rookie driver of the year and the 2013 Checkered Flag Promotions racing characing champion.

Cadillac Racing driver Andy Pilgrim finished second in race two of the Pirelli World Challenge's doubleheader weekend in Detroit, but the series» 2005 GT champion almost failed to make it to the checkered flag.

After a yellow caution period went green with just minutes left in the race, Antonio Garcia held off the second place No. 25 BMW to bring home the checkered flag for the first race of the 2015 TUDOR United Sportscar Championship.

Ian James, in his No. 50 Team Panoz Racing Panoz Avezzano GT sports car, took second at the checkered flag, but was later disqualified due to a technical infraction after the event.