Lucie, Florida, orthopedic surgeon who's been a dirt-track racing fan since he watched his father drive midget racers in the 1950s.
Lucie, Fla. orthopedic surgeon who's been a dirt-track racing fan since he watched his father drive midget racers in the 1950s.
But it also had some non-original parts, including Model A cranks and rods, an overhead valve unit built for 1920s dirt-track racing and dual carburetors from the 1930s.
Although crashing the Lola Wednesday prevented him from racing this weekend, he will be back on the track racing Porsches at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monteregy, California this next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Dirt-track racing has its roots in the very beginnings of the sport, and there are still hundreds of tracks scattered around the U.S., with particular concentrations in Texas, California, Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
Dirt-track racing has its roots in the very beginnings of the sport and there are still hundreds of tracks scattered around the country with particular concentrations in Texas, California, Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
At the Miramar Speed Circuit in San Diego, grown men zip around a quarter mile track in miniature racing carts.
The penthouse on the topmost floor, which is yet unsold, has stunning views of a horse-racing track and the Arabian Sea.
Some 500 bands perform on a dozen stages at the Fair Grounds, the horse-racing track that becomes a music stadium once a year.
The 22-story Park Hotel, the tallest building in China when it opened in 1934, looms over People's Square -- once the oval of the city's horse-racing track.
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Vos is a champion in track, road racing and cyclocross, and not long ago, BBC Sport writer Ben Dirs made the case that she is the greatest cyclist in the world.
Others are upset at the prospect that the racing track in northern New Jersey's Meadowlands Sports Complex may close, as the state is no longer willing to subsidise tracks that are in the red.
Generally everything's pretty similar, and the feeling of racing on track is pretty familiar.
"Sonic at the Olympic Games" features the spiky-haired hedgehog racing in track-and-field events.
The Irish Bog Snorkelling Championship takes place in the wonderful marshy boglands of Castleblayney, County Monaghan and you would be hard pressed to find a muddier, murkier and less inviting track in any other racing event.
Ecclestone said on Sunday that he would guarantee the British Grand Prix's place on the F1 calendar until 2015 as long as track owners the British Racing Drivers' Club and race promoters Octagon found the funds to finance the improvements he wants.
The Englishman has won on the streets of the Principality in both Formula Three and GP2, but in an F1 car the track is one of motor racing's greatest challenges.
The developer's bid is backed by the Save Our Stow campaign, which is calling for greyhound racing to return to the track.
On 12 August, Mr Morton, who is backed by the Save Our Stow campaign, which is calling for greyhound racing to return to the track, delivered a pre-planning application for the stadium to Waltham Forest Council.
The 12-year-old watch brand is an infant when it comes to the venerable world of the Swiss watch industry, but it has grown up at lightning speed with technical innovations and partnerships with athletes in sports ranging from track and field to soccer to auto racing.
Lucas Oil also sponsors some car races, including the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, and has a track in Missouri.
Boxing, tennis, track and field, soccer and horse-racing are being squeezed out.
At every Brewers home game, five sausages standing over 7 feet tall--bratwurst, Polish, Italian, hot dog and chorizo--entertain fans by racing each other down the warning track and around home plate.
This site part of a greater network of training and racing areas includes a track for luge, skeleton and bobsledding and facilities for the biathlon (a combination of cross-country skiing and target-range shooting).
Hamilton, who has already stated he does not want to drive for any other F1 team, had been on a fast-track to superstardom from the moment he started racing go-karts aged eight.
He had the good fortune to be owned by Rome in partnership with Little Red Feather Racing during his life on the track, winning three times and finishing in the top three seven times for them.
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"There is a very clear brief on the type and quality of racing that will be staged at the track, " he said.
In greyhound racing, dogs are lured around the track by a mechanical rabbit, but horse experts say the equine species isn't so easily motivated: "There is no way to teach a horse to chase a carrot, " said trainer Gary Contessa.
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