Sentences with phrase «start of the race»

For any driver the best time to make up places is at the very start of the race.

One - on - one isn't a problem, it's usually confined to the very start of a race; mostly in the opening few corners.

It may seem like campaign season is over in the city, but one is just getting started; Election Day was the unofficial start of the race for city council speaker — and some of the candidates are heading out of town to kick it off.

Last Saturday marked the unofficial start of the race to replace disgraced ex-Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, who was convicted in January on several federal corruption charges.

(The race will be broadcast live on FS1 beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET Saturday, with Nascar legend Jeff Gordon in the booth for FS1 to call the start of the race.)

If you're watching the Winter Olympics, you may notice that at the start of the race, skaters swing their arms backward and to the side, rather than forward and back like sprinters on a track.

At the start of the race, however, the tortoise is allowed a slight edge over Achilles, beginning the race a bit ahead of him.

It's meant to be a starting point, the gun that sounds at the start of a race, a catalyst.

I was up early enough to see the start of the race on TV and am hoping to catch some of the racers at the finish line near where we live!

«At the start of every race I have to turn Snicker backward, facing in the opposite direction,» says Pam Wagner.

Race is scheduled for 2 p.m. EDT and all the precipitation should be gone and depending on how much snow fell the night before, a lot of it could be melted close to the start of the race.

On top of that, all races will now start at 10 minutes past the hour in a bid to help broadcasters who don't have a massive pre-race build - up and want to be able to show the start of the race without having to miss it due to adverts.

The FIA has said that in future, it will be much harder on teams that break the rules on drying the grid before the start of a race

Mr Safety Car driver himself Bernd Maylander was thrown into the air when his car hit a dislodged drain cover at the start of the race.

Any rain from Saturday night into Sunday morning will move out and be done by the start of the race.

He's set to give the B194 a demo run at this month's Belgian Grand Prix, an hour before the start of the race.

Villeneuve was given pole because he'd set his lap first, but he dropped behind both Schumacher and Frentzen at the start of the race.

Alain Prost was running second but had been suffering from braking issues right from the start of the race.

Unless you want to see horrific crashes right at the start of a race that's obviously less than ideal, so, starting from this weekend, the FIA has made some changes to make the lights easier to see for everyone.

If the rain arrives around the start of the race, and is postponed and rescheduled it could end up being a Tuesday race because the rain is expected to continue through the day on Monday.

When they reach the next checkpoint in McGrath, nine checkpoints from the start of the race in Anchorage, they will be 646 miles from the finish in Nome.

I am sure you wanted to hear my voice before the start of the race.

These guys who tear up their cars at the start of a race — well, it's a lot of hooey.»

A car that's stalled on the grid at the start of a race is a scary situation for everyone involved — especially the driver who didn't get away from the line, and the chasing pack.

That was certainly the case in 1997, when a downpour 20 minutes before the start of the race completely soaked the circuit to the extent that it would start behind the safety car.

Crawford, who once raced a giraffe and a zebra on television (beat the giraffe, lost to the zebra), had won the 200 - meter gold on a surreal Thursday night, when the start of his race was delayed four minutes by Greek fans chanting the name of Konstantinos Kenteris, the 2000 Olympic champion and national hero who withdrew from the Games after missing a drug test, and Hel - las!

It was incredibly narrow, even by the standards of the day, and it often caused incidents at the start of races.

At the start of the race you feel like you're going straight up.

Fish out of water at the start of the race, the students were old salts by the end of it.

In this video a whole host of drivers talked about how they tackle the start of a race, with the likes of Antonio Felix da Costa, Alex Lynn, and Lando Norris (who's listed as a Formula 3 champion, even though he isn't quite yet!)

The start of any race is a great opportunity for drivers to make up positions, especially at a track like the Hungaroring where overtaking can be difficult.

Here is the weather, a map and more information on the start of the race.

As of Sunday night, temperatures ranged from the low teens near the start of the race to some 20 degrees below zero further north.

Hans Heyer didn't qualify for what would have been his only Grand Prix, but in some confusion at the start of the race he slipped out of the pits and on to the grid - but no one noticed!

Stoffel Vandoorne bore the brunt of them and wasn't even able to take the start of the race.

The following table displays the current Belmont Stakes odds and will be updated continuously until the start of the race:

Write down everything that happened from the start of the race to the finish.

Unsurprisingly the resulting burning sensation affected his vision so badly that he wasn't able to take the start of the race.

They help you get into your target race pace, complete the neuromuscular activation process, and make the start of the race less psychologically shocking.

«I am sure you wanted to hear my voice before the start of the race» was Fernando Alonso's opening line to his former team - mate

Stoffel Vandoorne didn't take the start of the race in Bahrain and in Sochi it was the other McLaren of Fernando Alonso that didn't get to see the lights go out.

Try to run your strides as close to the start of the race as possible.

We'd like to give equal opportunity at the start of the race, I think we owe it to them.

A planned world - record motorcycle jump on Talladega Superspeedway's frontstretch just minutes before the start of the race, only scrapped because the stuntman injured himself practicing.

Every now and then we see drivers get confused and stop in the wrong grid slot at the start of a race.

There's a lot going on at the start of a race, and drivers have to really be aware of the cars around them, otherwise it can all end in tears.

The start of a race is clearly the riskiest moment and that was proved with this two - car shunt at the start of a Blancpain GT Asia round.

In Italy, a racecourse was named for a young Italian who had died there, and photos of him were given out at the start of races there, bearing the caption:... YOU MET YOUR INEXORABLE FATE, COLD AS THE SNOW UNDER YOUR SPEEDING SKIS.

The crash at the start of the race, initiated by Ralf Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, ended up with eight cars out of the race instantly.