Sentences with phrase «track races he won»

Shobert came back streaking; in the final 12 dirt - track races he won four and finished second seven times, not including the Hagerstown, Md. half mile, which he won while his case was under appeal.

Not exact matches

Sure, with more than 40 NASCAR race wins under his belt, the «Pied Piper of Daytona» is undeniably a legend on the track.

If he manages to win gold in all three races, his nine career gold medals would tie Paavo Nurmi and Lewis for the most by a track and field athlete.

Ten days later Iron Liege won aseven - furlong race, and on Feb. 9 he made the headlines by beating his highlyregarded stablemate, Gen. Duke, and setting a new Hialeah track record for amile and a sixteenth.

14 Robby Gordon won both road races last year; now he needs to GORDON get better on the tracks that don't have righthand turns.

HARNESS RACING — Responding smartly to Driver Clint Hodgins» whip - flicking at head of stretch, Adios Butler whooshed past Meadow Al and Adios Oregon to win $ 110,994 Messenger Stake in track record (for 3 - year - old pacers) 2:00 1/5 at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, N.Y., plucked second jewel in pacing's triple crown.

Protests flew as Ronnie Bucknum (above) won a new speedway's first race, and famous drivers battled track and officials for title points

Kyle Busch finds himself in a familiar position entering the Monster Energy Cup Series race Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway: A win in the Bass Pro Shops / NRA Night Race would give him his second three - race NASCAR national touring sweep on the Tennessee half - mile trrace Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway: A win in the Bass Pro Shops / NRA Night Race would give him his second three - race NASCAR national touring sweep on the Tennessee half - mile trRace would give him his second three - race NASCAR national touring sweep on the Tennessee half - mile trrace NASCAR national touring sweep on the Tennessee half - mile track.

Harvick has won three of the first seven races and entered the weekend as one of the favorite to win Sunday's Cup Series race at the half - mile track.

But despite their early season superiority where each has maintained a consistent presence up front in all five races — a few breaks here or there and Larson and / or Elliott could've won all five — neither is considered among the favorites to win the first short track race of the year.

The only night race of the Formula One calender is upon us, with enemies and teammates Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton once again set to go head - to - head on the slow and winding Singapore track as they continued their quest to win the world title.

The four - man U.S. team won eight medals, and Peterson won six — a bronze, two silvers and three golds, for his victories in the 5,000 -, 10,000 - and 20,000 - meter track races.

It can not be stressed enough how well the 10 - race playoffs set up for Johnson, whose four winningest tracks host races.

Cleo lost that first run but soon began winning races at independent tracks throughout Alabama.

Indeed, Montoya had the fastest car all weekend at New Hampshire, setting the pace in every practice session, winning the pole with a track - record time on Friday and leading a race - high 105 laps on Sunday.

Jimmie Johnson has just one top - 10 finish so far in 2018, but will try to get back on track at a race track where he has won seven times before.

«The good thing about this format is you have two more weeks and two race tracks that we can win on,» Harvick said.

The Portuguese coach is also tracking Barcelona attacker Pedro, but could rival Arsenal for the signing of Callejon instead due to Manchester United looking likely to win the race for the Nou Camp misfit.

Team Penske has won five of the eight races on 1.5 - mile tracks this season — Keselowski and teammate Joey Logano are the only drivers with multiple victories — with Logano winning the April Texas race.

In the 30 years since Hendrick Motorsports won its first NASCAR race, which came at Martinsville Speedway, the team and the track have shared a complex relationship.

Undefeated in four lifetime starts, including the G2 - Kentucky Jockey Club last fall, Gemologist is a versatile colt that has won races on the lead, on dry and wet tracks, on synthetic and dirt and at a variety of distances.

She quickly took a liking to wheelchair racing and, at just 15, she was the youngest member of the USA track and field team at the 2004 Paralympic Games, where she won a silver and bronze medal.

Julio Herrera, a race track saliva test supervisor who had not ridden in competition for 13 years, won Mexico's first Harrisburg blue, and Samuel Soberon, a retired leather merchant, was riding in his first international competition at the age of 58.

Brother Mac, a 7 - to - l shot with Neville Sell - wood up, won the 1 - mile $ 6,720 International Stakes at Doomben Race Track, Brisbane, Australia.

The department's Organized Crime Strike Force maintains that in 1974 - 75 a group of gamblers, working for organized crime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars out of New York tracks.

Track and Field Victor, 14, won the 1,500 - and 3,000 - meter races in 4:21.34 and 9:29.71, respectively, at the National AAU Junior Olympic Games in Knoxville, Tenn..

He won because a trainer who had a broken right leg and a 1 - for - 32record in starts at his home track in New Mexico this season loaded him into ahorse van and drove him 1,466 miles leftfooted to race the blue bloods in theirbackyard.

As the track dried out he actually began to reel the Spaniard back in and for a while it looked like he could actually win the race, but a small off just a few laps from the end meant he had to settle for second.

NAMED: SU MAC LAD, the only trotter to win two races in two minutes or less on a half - mile track, as Harness Horse of the Year.

Budd, who had never won a major race when he edged onto the U.S. track team last summer and finished fifth in the 100 meters in Rome, has also run the 100 in 9.3 and the 220 in 20.2, the fastest this year for any college sprinter.

Leclerc and Rowland were disqualified from the feature race for excessive plank wear, so Markelov was promoted to the win even with a time penalty for gaining an advantage by going off track.

By the early light of the Illinois moon, and after four heats on a muddy track, trotting's premier event was won by a long - shot colt whose owner was hoping her husband's horse would win the race instead

The safety car came out in the hope the track could be cleared by the time the leaders got around, but eventually the red flag had to be thrown and the race ended, with Ferrari junior Charles Leclerc winning from McLaren junior Nyck de Vries.

Winning Pick - Six payoff at Del Mar for former Vikings head coach Mike Tice (out of football since being fired as the Bears» offensive coordinator last January), the only bettor at the track to pick the winners of races 3 through 8.

He is winless at Chicagoland in 15 career starts, one of three tracks the seven - time champion has not won a premier - division race.

He tells how he began in childhood winning a money prize in a sack race (which he fears made him technically a professional ever since), took up track in high school and in his junior year at Carleton College won the mile and the 880 in the Midwest Conference championships.

Sadly that means we won't get to see Maldonado drinking the milk after winning the Indy 500 (because obviously he would), but the prospect of Pastor on some of the tight, bumpy and unforgiving street tracks IndyCar races is something to be excited about.

«Last weekend had a shot to win at Pocono, one of my probably least - favorite race tracks, and get a strong run there.»

Desormeaux overcame his fear and disorientation to win his first two races after returning to the track.

Raevyn, a freshman at The Kinkaid School, won the youth girls» 200 -(24.34), 400 -(53.93) and 800 - meter races (2:13.07) at the USA Track & Field Junior Olympics.

But, now, it's road / street course and short oval aerokit has broken cover during a test at the Mid-Ohio track — where IndyCar was racing last weekend, with Josef Newgarden winning.

He certainly deserved the shot because he had won four stakes at four different racetracks, and in eight lifetime races had never run over the same track twice.

TRACK & FIELD Dave Stephens, promising Aussie, surprised touring Hungarian record breakers Laszlo Tabori and Sandor Iharos, took 5,000 - meter run in good 14:07.2 at Melbourne three days after slender Iharos outran Tabori by inches to win 2 - mile race in 8:47.4 for new Australian record.

Making the situation unique is that DiBenedetto, Hamlin and Harvick, who's won the past two Cup Series races, will be racing against one another Sunday on the one - mile track located in the Phoenix area.

A win for the Gunners will keep them on track for a title challenge and will also effectively knock the Red Devils out of the race for the top four.

Losing a win on the last corner of a race must suck, but to lose it because of a track blockage that you had absolutely nothing to do with?

He again won the race, taking fastest lap and leading every lap, and the British crowd swarmed the track after he crossed the finish line.

After qualifying third, and on a track where he's won previously, Keselowski was expected to be a contender in the fifth Monster Energy Cup Series race of the season.

Her horses started 538 times, won 136 races and earned $ 282,675, which is more than 70 % of the average daily handle wagered at this track.

Racing first forBMW Williams and then for McLaren Mercedes on the F / 1 circuit, the most popularracing series worldwide, Montoya had in five seasons won seven Grands Prix andearned more than $ 50 million on and off the track.