Sentences with phrase «year racing career»

Mr. Fitch enjoyed an 18 - year racing career, winning several times, including the 1951 Argentine Grand Prix, 1955 Mille Miglia, Dunrod Tourist Trophy, the Sebring endurance race, and numerous lesser races.

Not exact matches

The 33 - year - old Calgary native, who has been riding and racing anything with a motor since he was a kid, launched his professional monster truck career in 2008.

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, a career Republican pollster, has continued as a principal Trump spokesperson even after being accused of violating the Hatch Act for partisan political activities last year in the Senate race in Alabama.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Having failed to qualify for the previous race René Arnoux managed to finish fifth by virtue of simply staying on the track to score his first points for two years, and the last of his career.

SIDELINED: For at least six months, Jockey WILLIE SHOEMAKER, who suffered a fractured leg — the first major injury of his 19 - year career — in a two - horse spill during a race at Santa Anita.

Jockey Kent Desormeaux won his sixth career Breeders» Cup race and his second Twinspires Sprint, 22 years after his first, riding Roy H to victory in the $ 1.5 million, 6 - furlong race, beating out Imperial Hint down the stretch.

That race was the start of Major Taylor's riding career, and after five years of highly successful amateur road and track racing in various parts of the country, he turned professional and made his debut in the old Madison Square Garden.

It's usually towards the end of an F1 driver's career that they start talking about what they're going to do next, but 25 - year - old Kevin Magnussen is already thinking about other potential racing plans.

Last time: One year ago, Juan Pablo Montoya won his second career Sprint Cup Series race, completing the career sweep of NASCAR's Cup road courses.

If this year's title race unfolds similarly to how the previous two finales did, to claim a career - first championship Edwards will need to win Homestead outright — not just be the highest finisher among the four title eligibles.

Travis Kerr, owner of 4 - year - old bay, Round Table, entered colt in Hawthorne's Gold Cup where $ 73,250 first - money made Round Table richest horse in racing history with $ 1,336,364 total for three - year career.

Laverne Fator, Hailey, Idaho rider who won more than 1,000 races in a 14 - year career as jockey, received posthumous tribute as writers and broadcasters elected him to National Jockeys Hall of Fame, Pimlico.

• Notre Dame's boy wonder, 26 - year - old Coach Terence Patrick Brennan, began his career with grimly adult assurance; the Fighting Irish, led by Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi, got the Brennan regime off to a racing start by shutting out the tough University of Texas Longhorns, 21 - 0, while 57,594 cheered at South Bend (see pp. 58, 59).

Three years removed from a stellar short - track career running 30 - mile, dirt - oval sprints, Bowyer has exhibited a veteran's car - control skills and is one of only three drivers in the top 12 to have finished all 18 races this season.

It was the final win of his career, and as well as making him the oldest winner of an IndyCar race at 53 - years - old, it also meant he'd won IndyCar races in four different decades.

That would turn out to be the only points finish of his Formula 1 career, though at the same track in 1956 he became the oldest driver to start a race (he was 56) and two years later (at 58) the oldest driver to enter a race, though he failed to qualify.

And as the No. 48 team demonstrated last year, when it struggled for much of the regular season with Johnson going through a career - long 24 - race winless streak before embarking on a title run, there is still ample time to correct any issues before the playoffs begin.

«That's what the last few years have been like for me, and I'll be really honest when I say that what happened with [Barracuda Racing], in terms of my career, was probably a blessing in disguise.

After his F1 career had somewhat fizzled out after driving for his own team, Fittipaldi stayed away from racing for a few years but eventually resurfaced in America, racing in the CART series.

Billy Monger's racing career took a tragic turn earlier this year when he lost both of his lower legs in an horrific Formula 4 accident at Donington Park.

With two years left on his contract, Villa want around # 30 million for Benteke and that seems pretty reasonable and I can understand him wanting to further his career, but I wonder if he is putting off our Premier League rivals in the hope of the Gunners joining the race.

He was six years into his IndyCar career and had never won a race.

With 108 wins already this year, Desormeaux has won 2,478 races in his young career; that puts him on a pace to pass Bill Shoemaker (who retired at age 59 with a record 8,833 victories) in about 20 years should Desormeaux ride well for that long.

Conwright, who was an honors student during his first year at Newark Memorial, is determined to have a career in racing.

Moccasin, a daughter of Nantallah, won all of her eight races last year but took only two of six starts this season and retired with $ 348,308 in career earnings.

Jolyon's dad got his F1 career underway in 1983 when he was a Williams test driver and was rewarded with a one - off race in Brands Hatch that year when the team entered a third car specifically for him.

Last year, in the only pennant race of his career, Langston went 3 - 6 the last two months, as the Expos crumbled.

Eduardo Barrichello is about to follow in his father's footsteps and embark on his own single - seater career, and the 15 - year - old recently got to sample the machinery his dad currently races.

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Manchester City are leading the race for the 30 - year old, but the manager wants to persuade him not to give up on his career at Madrid.

Fabien Barthez (Racing driver): A year after retiring in 2007, the former Manchester United goalkeeper began a career in motorsport.

Roy Race had no choice but to end a 40 - year playing career that had defied earthquakes, assassination attempts and the ageing process.

(CNN)-- Rep. Charlie Rangel, D - New York, who was first elected in 1971, claimed victory in what he says is his last race, looking like he'll survive a second straight narrow victory against the same opponent he faced two years ago when he barely kept his political career alive.

The 42 - year - old Molinaro, whose political career began at the age of 18 upon winning election as mayor of the Village of Tivoli, admitted the outpouring of support led him to reconsider and then enter the race.

For DeFrancisco, the leap into the GOP governor's race and a potential matchup with Cuomo in November will culminate a 40 - year career in public office in which he has never lost an election.

He has spent most of his career as a political operative, working on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign in Pennsylvania and leading Syracuse Common Councilor Joe Carni's successful race last year.

Also yesterday, Sen. Frank Padavan (R - Queens) formally conceded his race to Democratic challenger and former City Councilman Tony Avella, ending Padavan's nearly 40 - year career in the Senate.

The race was one of the toughest of Rangel's career, second perhaps only to the original challenge by Espaillat, who nearly ousted the longtime congressman two years ago.

But increasingly, people outside of NASCAR are realizing that the skills gained working in a racing environment are also useful in other contexts, and as a result, NASCAR engineers are finding their careers advancing after they've spent a few years with a racing team.

Bonnie Dunbar (see picture at left), who visited Cambridge earlier this year to talk about her inspiring career, is a member of an elite team of women that has participated in the space race over the last 35 years.

Two years into Durazo's triathlon racing career, Durazo was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Less than a year earlier, I'd been racing ultramarathons while juggling a career as magazine editor and a family (my husband and I were raising a rambunctious toddler).

This racing extends the productive careers of Thoroughbred racehorses, preserves open space, and raises tens of thousands of dollars for worthy charities each year.

The last few years of moto gp games have not been the best 2015 was ok but not great but this yrs has gotten a bit better but still has alot to do to be as strong as f1 2016 graphics are good the bikes sound great but the lack of commentary during races sort of makes the last corner over take less fun the main selling point of the game is reliveing rossi's career in the challenge mode its fun to see the video of him talking about it before you try recreate it but its easily cleared in less then an hr and theres some great races left off the list overall it has many different modes now the drift and rally are nice the dirt bike section is fun and the career is your character going through the vr46 riding team to moto gp its fun and id advise fans of motogp to buy it

I love racing games, but only have a Wii - was really looking forward to both this and the new Need For Speed game (Nitro)- I have to say, while i'm a F1 fan, NFS Nitro is a much better Wii game, better graphics, better sense of speed, love the cops and customization, but best of all is the multi player career mode is really fun, I play with my 7 year old son (i'm still able to beat him!)

The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.

Drivatars are back this year, and I always find myself smiling when I see my online friends» Drivatars in my career races.

HIDALGO (Grade: B): In the first solo - starring role of his 20 - year career, Viggo Mortensen plays an American cowboy competing in a grueling, long - distance race across the Empty Quarter of Arabia.

As in previous years, a key consideration in the latest Race to the Top will be how the applicants prepare students for college and careers, but now the department will also look specifically at how the district plans move beyond one - size - fits - all models of schooling.