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Scoring system for race #1 of a championship round 27 20 17 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 - - - - - - - - - - 2018: 2018 Stock Car Pro Series: Scoring system used for the sprint races Points are awarded for each race at an event to the driver/s of a car that completed at least 75% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race 20 17 14 ...
Barney Oldfield (left) racing a car on a board track in 1915 Qualifying speeds at two-mile Tacoma Speedway were sometimes higher than those at Indianapolis. The first board track for motor racing was the circular Los Angeles Motordrome, built in 1910 in the area that would later become the city's Playa del Rey district. [1]
Circuit Zandvoort (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪrˈkʋi ˈzɑntˌfoːrt]), known for sponsorship reasons as CM.com Circuit Zandvoort, previously known as Circuit Park Zandvoort until 2017, is a 4.259 km (2.646 mi) motorsport race track located in the dunes north of Zandvoort, the Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line and 35 km (22 mi) west of ...
An aerial view of Pocono Raceway taken from a passing jetliner in late March 2014 Al Unser Jr. (No. 7) and Chet Fillip (No. 38) racing at Pocono in 1984 An SCCA T-2 Camaro goes clockwise on the Pocono Raceway's front stretch, 1999 John Andretti at Pocono Raceway, 1998 Victory Lane at Pocono during pre-race ceremonies at the 2005 Pocono 500
Beginning in 1920, the IAAF considered, at least, the following criteria for a legitimate decathlon scoring table: [4] (1) The table should reflect the fact that, at higher levels of performance, a unit gain (such as a decrement of 0.01 second in sprint times) is more significant than at lower levels of performance, because of the physiological limitations of the human body.
Two-year-old Liam Leonard practically flew to meet his "Gam Gam" at the Peoria, IL airport. His feet barely touched the ground as he raced through the terminal!
The speedway in its current form is measured at 1.5 miles (2.4 km), with the track having a progressive banking system in the turns. Subsequently, the track has 17 degrees of banking at the track's bottom lane, and 20 degrees of banking at the track's top lane in the turns.
In 1953, the track began hosting the Grand National Series with Lee Petty winning that first race in Richmond. [13] The original track was paved in 1968. [ 13 ] In 1988, the track underwent a major renovation into its present D -shaped configuration, with a wider surface, banking in the turns, and expansion in length to .75 of a mile.