Sentences with phrase «world championship races»

The all - new Chevrolet Cruze, which recently premiered at the Paris Motor Show, will continue Chevrolet's presence in the WTCC, in which GM have so far won twelve world championship races.

At the moment the PRO champion in the Super Trofeo Europe series isn't certain yet, in the lead we see Dane Dennis Lind, but he is only 6 point ahead of Harald Schlegelmilch... so anything can still change in the final round of the Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe series ahead of the world championship races in Valencia.

«We have an incredible customer and loyal Ducati fan base that we want to share with them our world championship racing action,» says Arrick Maurice, marketing director of Ducati North America.

Not exact matches

For Vonn, who has four World Cup championships and raced in more World Cup events than any other American in addition to her Olympic medals, monetary success came in the form of lucrative endorsements.

She has four world championship medals and won her last World Cup race before heading to Pyeongcworld championship medals and won her last World Cup race before heading to PyeongcWorld Cup race before heading to Pyeongchang.

Yohan Blake beat Usain Bolt in the 100 - and 200 - meter dashes at the Jamaican Olympic trials, won the 2011 world championship in the 100m — a race in which Bolt did not participate — and was viewed as the reason Bolt wasn't a runaway favorite to repeat his stunning feat from the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Since the start of the U.S. Grand Prix, has any driver won that race and gone on to win the world championship?

Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentina's daring world champion, began bid for fourth title, gunning his borrowed Ferrari at record - breaking 79.4 mph to win Argentina Grand Prix at Buenos Aires, first championship race of 1956.

The Levi's race is considered the world championship.

BOATING — TED TURNER of Atlanta won the World 5.5 - meter sailing championships with four victories in seven races off Oyster Bay, N.Y. Turner finished with the low score of 16.7, David Forbes of Sydney, Australia was second with 32.7 and King Olav of Norway third with 37.7.

Professional bicycle racing was at its peak in the United States when Marshall Walter (Major) Taylor, one of eight children of a Negro Civil War veteran, won the 1899 world championship and the U.S. title a year later.

Jenson Button was desperate to secure the 2009 world championship with a race to spare in 2009, but with teammate and title rival Rubens Barrichello (yes, he did once get sorta close to actually winning one!)

With three races for the 1957 world championship for manufacturers now run, Ferrari has gone ahead of its keenest rival, Maserati, two victories to one.

TRANSLATION Sirs: Ganbare is a much more appropriate name for the underdog yacht that Douglas Peterson built on a shoestring and raced with success against far more expensive boats in the 1973 World One Ton Cup championship than your translation of the name — «good luck» — would imply (Sardinia Sea Script: Viva Cinderella!

Last February he got the silver medal in the 20 - km race at the world championships, the highest finish for an American in international biathlon competition.

Jan 04,2016... In ocean powerboat racing's showdown off Key West for the world championship it was Brazil's Wally F...

That is how the NASCAR world turns heading into the AAA Texas 500 Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway (2:15 p.m. ET, NBCSN), the second of three semifinal races that will determine the four drivers who will vie for the championship in two weeks at Homestead - Miami Speedway.

They are, instead, getting as close as they can to the No. 1 outdoor passion of all Seattle, the bucking, roaring hydroplanes which on August 9 will race for the Gold Cup, the speedboat championship of the world.

Quite often these took place on circuits that had already been given championship races but there were some that never quite made it to full World Championship status.

The Silverstone circuit looked very different when it first hosted a F1 season opener, more specifically the maiden race in the F1 world championship.

That's because Lopez, like Formula E championship leader Sebastien Buemi, is missing New York to race for Toyota in the FIA World Endurance Championship at the Nurburgring.

It was no different this April Fool's Day for the motorsport world, with plenty of hilarious and cool jokes from racing championships, teams and tracks.

The occasion for this debut was a two - week spell of concentrated racing at 11 U.S. and Canadian tracks for what the Harness Tracks of America calls the world driving championship.

Still, as 1970 ski racing moves toward its competitive pinnacle — the FIS World Alpine championships next week at Val Gardena in northern Italy — there are signs that the season is about to produce one of sport's classic battles: the challenge of the crafty old kings of the mountain by brash young hotshots.

My proudest achievement in racing will always be to have won the world championship with this incredible team of people, the Silver Arrows.

«Just as important, McLaren has the technical resource and financial strength to be able to very quickly win races and world championships in F1.

Sure, Toyota will benefit from having the double world champion in one of its cars at its home race, the WEC will benefit from the publicity and Fernando will benefit from potentially being able to realistically challenge for the championship now, but what about everyone else?

He was on course for a podium but a tyre failure eight laps from the end put him out of the race, whilst Michael went on to finish second, securing world championship number seven in the process.

Bruni's raced in championships across the world, from the American Le Mans Series to Super GT, FIA WEC and GT Asia.

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.

The swirl of a major league pennant race or a Marciano - Moore heavyweight championship fight — yes, even the World Series — will be only of passing interest in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Columbus, Atlanta, Miami and many more citadels of football.

2012 World Endurance Champion and three - time Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer is used to racing some of the fastest cars in some of the fastest championships.

Neel Jani joined Dragon Racing Formula E team for the championship's fourth season following Porsche's LMP1 departure from the World Endurance Championship.

It was recently confirmed that Jani would rejoin his old team Rebellion Racing in the LMP1 class of the World Endurance Championship, he will race alongside his former Porsche teammate, Andre Lotterer, who continues to race in the Formula E championship.

Still, more racing and the lack of pressure that comes with the world championship might make for a refreshing change, and could be a good place to try out new things on the public — we don't want a repeat of «elimination qualifying» again!

For all those who missed the alpine world championship last winter, there was Garmisch» 78, winner of the racing and competition category.

There are the common exemptions reserved for the top 50 in the world rankings, recent major winners in the other three championships, and the PGA Tour and Euro Tour's playoff points races.

In 1962 Clark won three world championship point races, including the U.S. Grand Prix, and led in every event in which his Climax - engined Lotus was functioning properly.

What's more, the same select major events that Grantland Rice and Ted Husing faithfully covered before the war remain preeminent: the Triple Crown horse races, the Indianapolis 500, heavyweight title fights, the Olympics, the U.S. Open and Masters golf tournament, the World Series, the bowl games, the Wimbledon and U.S. tennis championships.

But because a threepenny bolt failed in the final race, letting out the oil at a time when Clark was way ahead of his rival, Britain's Graham Hill, he lost the race and the world championship.

It was a dramatic race too, as Jack Brabham ended up pushing his car across the line to win his first world championship.

Of the 17 races on the 2018 calendar, six take place on ovals, six on road course, and five on street courses, making IndyCar perhaps the truest test of driver abilities of any championship in the world.

Even though there are still 18 races to go this season, the two bad races and the fact Mercedes has yet to win has got him worried about his chances of winning world championship number five.

The chassis (No. 211) is the very one Schumacher raced to his fifth and final victory at Monaco and was also the car he raced in the Hungarian GP, when he clinched his fourth world championship.

The bitterness of the situation was fully exposed when Celtic went to South America in November to settle the so - called world club championship with the South American champions, Racing Club of Argentina.

Aside from during the pit stops, Schumacher led the whole race and took the win - a record - equalling (at the time) 51st - and his fourth world championship with four race left to go in the season.

Having spent half a decade solidifying their reputation as big - race skiers — with Tommy Moe's Olympic downhill win in Lillehammer, Picabo Street's 1996 world downhill championship and 1998 Olympic Super G title, Hilary Lindh's downhill gold in Sestriere — the Americans squandered a home course advantage in Vail with a grim performance.

Once Jody Scheckter had won the 1979 world championship for Ferrari, the gloves came off and team orders were no more, meaning Villeneuve could start to race for himself again.

It draws together some of the biggest names and teams from various Porsche Carrera Cup championships around the world for one massive 61 - car race.

Stirling Moss won the race, but Fangio brought Collins» car home in second place, winning the fourth of his five world championships in the process.