Sentences with phrase «racing miles over»

Sebring also is one of three circuits at which Corvette Racing has appeared in its 19 - plus seasons, and the program has logged more than 40,000 racing miles over the 3.7 - mile, 17 - turn road course.

Not exact matches

In the racing event, we can get up to 70 mph, which can be pretty scary because you're bouncing around and vibrating all over the place, and the tires we use, originally built for agriculture purposes, are only rated for 30 miles an hour.

I caught the highlights of the Daytona 500 last week on SportsCenter and the analysts said the drivers make somewhere between 5 - 8 pit stops over the course of the 200 laps in the 500 - mile race.

It's like trying to run at a 100 - yard dash pace over a mile race.

The race is a 1 mile flat course and should be over in less than 1 minute 40 seconds but has nonetheless required a huge amount of training!

HARNESS RACING — SILK STOCKINGS ($ 3.00), driven by Preston Burris Jr., set a world record for fillies and mares with a 1:57 [3/5] clocking over the half - mile Monticello Raceway.

Not since 1920 had any horse been able to carry over 130 successfully in a race at a distance greater than a mile and a half.

The simple facts are our manager thinks the title race is over he also knows that Chelsea are miles better then us.

There were only 23 of them between Winner Rodger Ward and Runner - up Jim Rathmann over Indy's 500 miles, a race which provided an abundance of thrills and few mishaps

HORSE RACING — EASY GOER ($ 2.60), ridden by Pat Day, charged past four horses in the final quarter mile to win the Woodward Handicap by two lengths over Its Acedemic.

Technically, an ultramarathon is any distance race over the standard 26.2 miles.

BOATING — New Yorker BILL WISHNICK drove his 32 - foot Bertram inboard to victory over such champions as Don Aronow (page 50), Bob Magoon and Pat Duffy in the 184 - mile Hennessy Miami - Key West offshore ocean race.

Britain's brother team of Charles and Jimmy Gardner guided their powerboat SURFURY to a 3:33:30 victory over the 198 - mile course from Cowes to Torquay, England in the seventh international offshore race.

HARNESS RACING — France's International Trot winner, Roquepine, came in first in the mile - and - a-half Gold Division of the $ 25,000 Challenge Cup at Roosevelt Raceway but was disqualified for interference and placed sixth as the No. 2 finisher, PERFECT FREIGHT ($ 17.60), driven by Jim Dennis, was declared the winner by a neck over Oscar R L.

15 Outrigger Canoe Races The sport's largest event, with 2,500 competitors, is the annual Queen Liliuokalani ocean races, in which one - to six - person outrigger canoes race over distances as long as 18 miles off the Kona CRaces The sport's largest event, with 2,500 competitors, is the annual Queen Liliuokalani ocean races, in which one - to six - person outrigger canoes race over distances as long as 18 miles off the Kona Craces, in which one - to six - person outrigger canoes race over distances as long as 18 miles off the Kona Coast.

The stamina angle is an obvious one considering the race is run over four miles plus but having the speed and agility to get into a prosperous position early and dodge the trouble in - running is absolutely crucial.

The Gloucester Fox Hunters Plate, a race of about three miles over 22 timber fences, was the fifth of six events and the day's high point.

When the match race takes its place in racing's history books, the fundamentalists will almost inevitably give decisive weight to the circumstance mentioned by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons elsewhere in this issue: over an off track (in patches slow) Nashua and Swaps raced together at killing early speed: five - eighths of a mile in 58 seconds, three - quarters of a mile in 1:10 2/5 — two seconds faster than Swaps's time at the same point in the Kentucky Derby over a fast track.

JV Girls was a show of dominance by Gwendalyn Gibson of SoCal / Ramona HS as she won by over three minutes in the 12 + mile race.

The race was for young birds, pigeons hatched last spring, and the distance was 350 miles over the southwest course from Charlottesville, Va..

Scottish stars Andrew Butchart and Lynsey Sharp race over 1 mile and 500m respectively, while Lorraine Ugen is part of a GB trio in the long jump.

Around 5500 runners are expected to be involved in 30 one - mile races on the roads around St James's Park in central London at the Westminster event which comes just over two weeks after the 60th anniversary of Roger Bannister's first event sub-four-minute mile at Oxford's Iffley Road track.

The Mini London Marathon is an annual series of races for the country's top 2000 young talents staged over the final three miles of the famous London Marathon course on the same day as the London Marathon itself.

Watched by Roger Bannister and Mo Farah, over 5000 runners took part in a series of mile races starting at The Mall and finishing outside Buckingham Palace on Saturday.

Jules and her husband Steve Owen have completed over 1,400 race miles and raised almost # 4.5 k for MRSA Action UK.

Steve Owen and his wife Jules have completed 602 race miles and raised over # 4,000 for MRSA Action UK.

Professional and amateur paddlers competed over a 15 - mile stretch of the river before the Governor's Invitational race Sunday afternoon.

Unlike the Olympic road and mountain bike races, which take place over dozens of miles and last several hours, a BMX race is a sprint.

MAY 1910 AIR RACES — «Louis Paulhan, the most distinguished aviator of them all, has soared nearly a mile into the air, and finally has surpassed even that feat by flying from London to Manchester, covering a distance of 186 miles, with but one stop for fuel, at an average speed of over forty miles an hour.

The resulting turbulence creates atmospheric waves — some of which can stretch 1,500 miles — that race across the Sahara and over the Atlantic.

A group of four MPhys physics students have worked out that a racing car travelling at over 150 miles per hour would be able to stick to the walls of a completely circular speedway track with 90 degree banks.

Due to the increasing popularity of races over 10 km (6.2 miles), or endurance races, researchers sought to determine how many life - threatening events during endurance races were caused by heat stroke compared to cardiac events.

The lack of snow in southern Alaska prompted the move of the iconic Iditarod race over 200 miles northward.

New Horizons is currently so far from Earth that transmitting data to or from the spacecraft that radio signals racing through space at over 186,000 miles a second, take nearly five hours to travel between the interplanetary observatory and mission engineers on our home planet.

Part of the Stand Up World Series circuit, Lenny will be one of 40 SUP athletes padding an open course that stretches 7.5 miles, including under the Golden Gate Bridge, and includes waves over 10 feet high, Lenny says it gets him more excited than a normal race because he can take on the giant waves with the paddling.

The relay race takes place over two days and one night, and your team will cover 200 miles.

I like you was hitting my mid 40's and running 100 mile races only to discover that I had gained over 10 lbs.

The race is only a little over three miles, but I actually cried while finishing it.

Over 8000 people ran a 3 mile race through the streets of NYC and across the actual NYC Marathon finish line.

«Nothing makes an episode of Billions pop like a scheme... After a (very good) week of catching up on what our buddies did over summer vacation, it's extremely welcome to be right back in the swing of things, racing around at a hundred miles an hour.»

Summer's not yet over and Hollywood's annual awards race has already started — though you may have to hop a plane and travel several thousand miles to notice.

In Jet Car Stunts the players control a Jet Car — the combination of a formula racing car and a jet plane that lets them perform nearly impossible gravity - defying stunts, like driving through loops, jumping over incredible distances, corkscrew maneuvers, drifting near the edge of the racing track,... all of that in supersonic speed, miles above the ground.

The engineering of this ultramodern car is absolutely unreal: a monocoque built from carbon - fiber - reinforced plastic; a racing - type weight distribution of 43 percent front / 57 percent rear; rear tires that are each over a foot wide; a plug - in hybrid powertrain with electric motors on each axle that delivers 19 miles of range in full - electric mode; a seven - speed PDK transmission; and a 4.6 - liter V - 8 engine that revs to 9150 rpm and makes 608 hp.

Branded with chassis number 0816, the car collected the highest honour in the world of endurance racing in 1964, clocking an average speed of 122mph over 2918 miles.

Once it launches later this year, up to 20 competitors will drive race - prepped Model S P100Ds through three qualifying rounds, a 37 - mile (60 km) day race, with a second race that evening over the same distance.

With an average speed of 97.96 mph over 990 miles, Moss claimed a stunning victory that will never be beaten, thanks to the discontinuation of the race in full capacity.

BRASELTON, Ga. — The Battle of Atlanta was fought over hill and over dale today at Road Atlanta as Corvette Racing finished third and fourth in the 1,000 - mile Petit Le Mans endurance race.

The car is powered by the new 6.2 L V8 that cranks out a little over 430 horsepower and when mated with the 6 - speed manual will race to 60 miles - per - hour in 5.2 seconds.

The winning Corvette C6.R completed 355 laps of the 8.481 - mile circuit (3,011 miles) and won by a five - lap margin of victory over Aston Martin Racing.

This grueling race covers roughly nine miles and descends over 6,500 feet with grades as steep as 75 percent.