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And at the Orlando Speed World drag strip in Bithlo, Saturday marks the beginning of the NHRA / Summit ET bracket season points race.
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Andrea Cesaris crossed the line in fourth with teammate Bertrand Gachot just behind him in fifth, giving the tiny Jordan team not only it's first points, but a double points finish just five races into its debut season.
The criticism seems to increase year on year, and you can bet your life that the first time Arsenal drop points this season, the verbal attacks will resume once again, but the fact is that every single team in the Premiership is investing in players in that race for the title, and it is not getting any easier to win the League.
Results have not been as expected this season, with the Portuguese tactician failing to make the team competitive in the title race again as they fall 16 points behind league leaders Manchester City.
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.
This was the first race without a minimum pit stop time and thankfully things went pretty smoothly - well, unless your name is Lucas di Grassi, who suffered a car issue shortly after pitting and finishes the first third of the season with no points to his name - not great for the defending champion...
Arsenal's defeat to Tottenham this weekend has left us 7 points behind our local rivals and a further 2 behind Liverpool in the race for the Top Four, but the Reds boss Jurgen Klopp thinks that the Gunners can challenge Liverpool before the end of the season.
The championship leader at the end of the normal 26 - race section will be awarded «regular season champion» and get 15 additional playoff points, with the rest of the top 10 also getting them on a 10 (for second) to one (for 10th) playoff point basis.
This turned out to be worse than the B2 had been, only scoring three points all year and being so bad that Ferrari couldn't be bothered to turn up to some races in the middle of the season.
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.
There's a race for those 10 Playoff Spots... Team Saltzman got their first points of the Season on Monday Night and we'll leave it at that.
Each segment winner will get one playoff point and the overall winner gets five playoff points, which get carried into the 10 - race playoff at the end of the season (what was the Chase).
Since that all - star game, Bolin has averaged 30.3 points — including a club - record 41 against Chicago — and, with a season average of 26.8, she's just 3.2 points behind New Jersey's Carol (the Blaze) Blazejowski in the WBL scoring race.
Hamlin, 25, opened the season with a win in the BudweiserShootout at Daytona, and at Pocono got his first points - race victory.
But within weeks Roush was looking like the smartest owner in NASCAR.As soon as Roush engineer Wally Brown replaced Bob Osborne as Edwards's crewchief, Edwards's season took off: He moved from 22nd to 13th in points over thenext three races.
Barca currently trail rivals Real Madrid by six points in the title race, albeit they have a game in hand, but they have failed to deliver consistently this season which has also led to question marks over Enrique's future.
This gives Truex, who won four races and a series - best 18 stage wins along with the regular season points title, a sizeable advantage.
Martin Truex Jr. of Furniture Row Racing dominated the regular season by winning four races and leading the series in stage wins, points, top - 10 finishes, and laps led.
That leads them to a bizarre situation on Saturday as they head east to face Valencia, sitting a full five points behind their foes and completely out of the La Liga title race just halfway through the season.
Defending race - winner and regular season points champion Martin Truex Jr. starts third, followed by Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski.
The 59 - year - old has earned plenty of praise this season, not only for the fact that Napoli continue to push defending Serie A champions Juventus in the title race, as they trail them by four points with seven games remaining, but more so because of the style of football that he has implemented at the San Paolo.
Points leader Dale Earnhardt Jr. has finished in the top 10 in each of the first five races this season, though he hasn't yet managed to win.
Truex, who drives a Toyota, won four races and the regular - season points championship.
Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.
Spurs narrowly missed out on the Champions League places last year, finishing just one point behind north London rivals Arsenal in a race that went down to the final day of the season.
Kimi Raikkonen won the first race — the first time Lotus had done so since 2006 and 1978 and at this point in the season the entire field were separated by just 25 points in the championship — the closest title battle since Australia 2012.
Real will be fully aware that they need to win in order to stay in the title race, as they would remain just a point behind Barca heading into the final weekend of the season.
The former teammates come head - to - head this weekend in a clash that could have significant consequences on this season's Premier League title race, with the Blues currently leading at the top of the table by nine points.
With the Manchester derby taking centre stage on Sunday afternoon, it was important that the North London outfit came away with all three points as the race for Champions League qualification heats up with the end of the season fast approaching.
- Kevin Magnussen scored more points in the first four races this year than he did throughout the whole of last season.
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.
The Italian tactician is under growing pressure at Chelsea this season after a hugely disappointing second half of the season that has seen them lose the Carabao Cup semi-final, fall five points behind Tottenham in the race for fourth, and facing a mountain to climb to get past Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League.
With one race left in NASCAR's regular season, Junior trails Kevin Harvick by 128 points for the 12th and final spot in the 10 - race playoff.
It's a good thing too because he's way off the amount of superlicence points needed to get an actual race seat in F1, but a good season could change all that.
In what is shaping up to be one of the most open Premier League title races ever, those four games could be absolutely crucial at the rate of which Tottenham lost points in Dembele's absence this season.
Like they don't know that two - thirds of the way through the racing season, she leads the high school group with almost double the points of her closest competitor, Jake Mercieca.
So from next season the cars will have two different power modes available, both of which the drivers have to use at some point during a race.
Abt's teammate and reigning champ Lucas Di Grassi has had a proper nightmare of a season with no points from the first four races.
At one point when you are so far in the top 4 race, out of the FA Cup and not even sure to win your Europa tie against AC Milan in the current state... players should be more hungry when being 90 mins away from what could be the only piece of silverware of the season.
The Brazilian made his debut with Sauber back in 2002 and had a long spell with Ferrari where he achieved 11 race victories, also coming desperately close to the world championship in the dramatic 2008 season finale, where Massa missed out on the title by a single point.
1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve put in some impressive performances and could have scored points or even podiums on a few occasions, but the car just kept letting him down; he didn't finish a race until the 12th round of the season!
It is at Penske Racing where Montoya will join Will Power and current Izod IndyCar points leader Helio Castroneves to form a three - car car team for the 2014 season.
When you are 9 points behind in the PL race and you fail to build momentum against beatable teams, it's not going to be your season.
The clothing brand at one point had aggressively marketed drivers as a cornerstone of television campaigns and tossed house parties at select races — but both have vanished in recent seasons.
Having said that, the boss has been very pleased with the desire and determination to win that the Gunners have been showing this season, so he is not getting at the players, just trying to ensure that they keep doing the things that have got us right in the title race up to this point.
Arsenal should NEVER, EVER find themselves this far out of the title race at this point in the season.
But a final decision will have to be made after the current season as Busch is still a contender, currently 47 points (less than a full race) behind championship leader Matt Kenseth with six races remaining.
He drove well in the race too, and by the time of the chequered flag he was up in fifth, scoring his first F1 points and equalling the teams best result of the season.
While the PGA Tour now utilizes a «wraparound schedule» with fall events counting towards the following year's FedExCup points race, this will always remain the unofficial start to the PGA Tour season.
The chassis was alright but the Yamaha engine was unreliable and underpowered, and it wasn't until the seventh race of the season in Canada that Hill actually finished a race, and it wasn't until round nine at Silverstone that he even scored a point.