Sentences with phrase «taking race victories»

The British racing driver has had an unusual journey up the single - seater ladder, enjoying success in Formula BMW before winning the 2012 British Formula 3 championship and taking race victories in GP3.

After a disrupted race two, which featured a red flag for a huge shunt between Gary Paffett and Mike Rockenfeller, it was Maxime Martin who took the race victory.

Not exact matches

In Tuesday's comprehensive rout, Republicans won in places where Democrats were favored, taking a Senate race in North Carolina, pulled out victories where the going was tough, like a Senate battle in Kansas, and swept a number of governors» races in states where Democrats were favored, including Obama's home state of Illinois.

It proved to be the decisive move for the race lead, as Newgarden went on to claim victory and take the lead in the drivers» standings.

Yuri Mikhailov's record - breaking (see above) victory in 1,500 meters highlighted Soviet performance while powerful Oleg Goncharenko took 5,000 - meter race in 7:59.4 and slender Rafail Gratch sprinted 500 meters in 0:41.1.

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.

Oxford had taken some good scalps in the lead - up to the Race, Cambridge's victories had looked less convincing.

Rahal is clearly hooked up and enjoying the Detroit double - header, as he took pole position and victory for the opening race of the weekend.

The American, born in New York, took victories in Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can - Am, Trans - Am Series, proving he was one of the most talented all - round racing drivers.

Alan Jones started the race from 14th and took Shadow's only F1 victory - no wonder they didn't have the Australian anthem to hand!

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.

Up until the mid-2000s, Alberto Ascari had been the man to beat with his seven - race victory streak across the 1952 and 1953 seasons — both of which saw him take championship wins.

Nadine started the day by taking the 100m, 200m and 400m titles, but the moment of the match was her anchor leg in the 4x400m relay, where she caught and overtook the Cambridge athlete in the final metres of the last race of the day, bringing the match victory back to Oxford for the first time in four years.

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.

Webber has also won Monaco on two occasions and came close to taking victory at Le Mans with Porsche, but failed to do so and has now hung up his racing helmet.

Pedro Rodriguez didn't get a regular drive in F1 until 1967, where he promptly took the last ever victory for the Cooper team in the opening race of the season in South Africa.

Despite a somewhat misleading flying start (a string of four - goal victories against relegation fodder), the Red Devils» form has taken a hit since then, leaving them eight points off the pace in the title race.

A year after the race it was revealed that Alonso's team mate Nelson Piquet Jr had deliberately crashed to cause a safety car, allowing Fernando to take an unexpected victory.

At the 2010 season finale in Abu Dhabi Alonso was in prime position to win his third title and a first with Ferrari, however an early safety car turned the race on its head and Sebastian Vettel took a comfortable victory.

The car won many races at lower levels and in Can - Am, and took its most prestigious victory at the Daytona 24 Hours in 1969.

A Monégasque native, most of Louis Chiron's racing career took place before the Second World War and he actually took victory at Monaco in 1931.

On the last lap of the last race of the 1996 IndyCar season, Alex Zanardi launched his car down the inside at the fabled Corkscrew corner and took the lead and the victory - but not without running off the track to do so.

While it may take a few races for Montoya to get re-acclimated to open - wheel racing, Penske has stacked the deck in his efforts to both return to Victory Lane at Indianapolis and pick up the team's first championship since 2006 (Sam Hornish Jr..)

Aston Martin took a dramatic class victory in the dying moments of this year's Le Mans 24 hours, but that was just a warm up for the biggest event of the summer: the Red Bull Soapbox Race at Alexandra Palace in London.

F1 first raced in Turkey in 2005, with Kimi Raikkonen taking victory.

The victory put Al Sr. ahead of his son 139 to 136 in championship points going into the final race of the CART season, which will take place in Miami on Nov. 9.

But that absolutely wasn't the case in St. Petersburg as Sebastien Bourdais took victory from 14th on the grid in an incredible opening race.

The Porsche 919 completed a hat - trick of Le Mans victories in 2017 when Brendon Hartley, Timo Bernhard, and Earl Bamber took victory in the race which none of the hybrid cars seemed to want to finish.

One of the great things about oval racing is the unpredictability — if someone's close to the leader with a lap or two to go, they could still take victory.

Sam Bird took victory in a race which saw battles right through the field and its fair share of bizarre moments

Teammate Mario Andretti went on to win the race and take what would be his final victory.

The last year of the V8s, Sebastian Vettel took pole for the 2013 season - opener but slipped to third by the end of the race as Raikkonen took victory from Fernando Alonso.

Rosberg led away from pole, but a few laps into the race Nelson Piquet's Brabham took the lead and cruised off to a victory.

Just 20 laps after his spin he took the lead from Andretti, this time for good, and romped home to score a dramatic and famous victory in a race that has since become known as the «spin and win».

In his sixth, at the Canadian Grand Prix, he took a comfortable pole position and commanded the safety car - filled race on his way to his first victory.

The 1993 Brazilian Grand Prix featured the first modern use of the safety car in a race and it played a part in helping Ayrton Senna take victory.

The No. 10 Cadillac DPi driven by Jordan Taylor, Ricky Taylor and Alex Lynn (on his IMSA debut, no less) took victory at the race.

HARNESS RACING — Duplicating the strong stretch drive of his first - heat victory, TEXAS ($ 4.20), driven by Billy Herman, took the third and deciding heat of the $ 100,000 Kentucky Futurity, the third leg of trotting's Triple Crown, in 1:58 at Lexington's Red Mile.

It was a new month, but the same old Brownlee brilliance saw the brothers take the podium's top two spots for the second successive race in World Triathlon Series victory in Stockholm.

It proved to be a bitter sweet Valentine's Day for Lizzy Yarnold as she took victory in the final World Cup skeleton race of the season in Sochi, but missed out on the overall title by just 20 points.

It was a tall order, but the 2012 World Champions Mills and Clark took on the fight and played their part to seal an emphatic medal race victory.

Lando Norris took a comfortable victory from pole position in the opening F2 race of the season in Bahrain.

Hannah Cockroft is one of Britain's most famous and decorated Paralympians so it is hard to believe that she took up wheelchair racing just months before her first Virgin Money Giving Mini London Marathon victory in 2009, writes Ryan Goad.

Archibald, who will also return from the championships with a silver medal from the women's elimination race, took her third consecutive individual pursuit victory at these championships.

Earlier on there had been a series of «B» 100m races taking place and competing for the first time this season, sub-10 second man James Dasaolu — who has been sidelined by a hamstring injury — ran 10.03 for a very comfortable victory ahead of Jamaica's Michael Frater with 10.44.

'' The South of England Cross Country Championships included victories from Emelia Gorecka and Ian Bailey in the junior races, while Frank Tickner took the men's title from Neilson Hall and Darren Deed and Lily Partridge beat Steph Twell and Emily Pidgeon to the senior women's crown.

A Democratic victory in the race could potentially lead to the party taking control of the chamber later this month.

Even after his victory, Molinaro declined to saw whether he would indeed take his fellow Republicans» up on their effort to draft him into the race, though he said through a spokesman that he was «deeply grateful and humbled» by their show of support.

While the super PAC backed by the statewide teachers union faltered in aiding Democrats in down - ballot state Senate races, the education reform group StudentsFirstNY is taking a victory lap today as the chamber will largely remain the same.

It's showed up in terms of the number of people who do come to the polls and vote, but take a look at that race in Delaware, for instance, with Christine O'Donnell, and here's someone who got a big victory over a moderate Republican that was supported by the party structure.