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Thus, Christopher Bell has been absent from the Chili Bowl Nationals in recent events. While competing in the top rung of the American open-wheel ladder system, Schmidt’s teams captured seven drivers championships — most notably two-time IndyCar champ Josef Newgarden. Ross Chastain, who was a driver with Chip Ganassi Racing, joined Trackhouse Racing and quickly proved to be a key addition to the team.
Another format for off-road racing happens on Caterham closed-course short course tracks such as Crandon International Off-Road Raceway. In the 1980s and 1990s, the short course was extended to racing inside stadiums in the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group; this format was revived by Robby Gordon in 2013 with his Stadium Super Trucks series. One-make, or single marque, championships often employ production-based cars from a single manufacturer or even a single model from a manufacturer’s range.
The race car’s engine needs a considerable amount of air to produce maximum power. The air intake manifold sucks the air from scoops on the hood and front bumper and feeds it into the engine. Many engine modifications to increase horsepower and efficiency are commonly used in many racing-sanctioning bodies.16 Engines are tuned on a machine called a dynamometer, which is commonly known in the racing world as a DYNO. The car is driven onto the DYNO and many gauges and sensors are hooked up to the car that are controlled by an online program to test force, torque, or power. Through the testing, the car’s engine maps can be changed to get the most horsepower and ultimately speed out of the vehicle. In auto racing, the racing setup or car setup is the set of adjustments made to the vehicle to optimize its behaviour (performance, handling, reliability, etc.).
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Emerson Axsom, the only driver locked into all four classes through heats and qualifiers at the Tulsa Shootout, is seeking two more Drillers to make four of a kind. After five days of qualifying races, the starting lineups have been set for six A-Mains at the 2025 Tulsa Shootout. Strap weapons to your whip and go shooting down other racers in Death Chase. Just at the end of the straightaway, van Gisbergen filled a hole on the outside of another car. “I mean, it was, you know, the acquisition of CGR was because I had tried to acquire four or five charters and lost every single one of them, and had to just start getting creative.” Non-contact formulas include National Hot Rods, Stock Rods, and Lightning Rods.
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Grass courts are made of grasses in different compositions depending on the tournament. No USC coach was more successful than John McKay, who in 16 years at the helm, led the Trojans to four national championships between 1960 and 1975. The Bulldogs have likely secured a spot as a top-four seed in the College Football Playoff as they took down the Longhorns for the second time this season. Texas will likely still earn a berth in the 12-team playoff as an at-large bid, holding just two total losses. Georgia has secured the SEC title, defeating Texas in the first overtime game in SEC championship history. Clemson upset No. 8 SMU in the ACC championship on a walk-off 56-yard field goal— the longest field goal in ACC championship history.
The opening round of the inaugural 12-team playoff saw No. 6 Penn State, No. 9 Tennessee, No. 10 Indiana and No. 11 SMU play in their first-ever CFP games. And the quarterfinals will feature the introductions of No. 3 Boise State and No. 4 Arizona State. In sports such as motor racing, a season consists of a number of individual races, with points being awarded for finishing in the top positions. At the end of the season, the driver/team with the most points wins the championship.
The Kubota High Limit Racing Sprint Cars are heading Down Under to race at the famous Perth Motorplex for the richest payday in Australian sprint car history. Two years later, McLaren announced its majority takeover, and by the start of the 2023 season, the SP in the team’s name would be dropped, foreshadowing Friday’s news. Lydia Mee is a passionate motorsport journalist with a background in covering Formula 1, NASCAR, electric vehicles, and other various motorsports. She’s a strong advocate for women in motorsport and a more diverse industry.
A historical event can be of a number of different motorsport disciplines. However, they have less downforce than GT3 cars and also have less driver aids. GT3 cars are far and away the most popular class of GT cars, with premier racing series such as the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA both using GT3 as their top class of GT car.
By 2005, the only differences were men’s competition in the 50 km walk, and equivalent events in women’s 100 m hurdles and heptathlon to men’s 110 m hurdles and decathlon. In their first year as a member of the Big 12, the Sun Devils bounced back from 3-9 records in both 2022 and 2023 to likely secure a spot in the 12-team College Football Playoff. In Tuesday’s rankings show, the Sun Devils were the fifth-highest-ranked conference champion (projected) and were the No. 12 seed. Arizona State broke the doors off its hinges in the third quarter, scoring on three straight forced turnovers to start the second half.
Some of the most famous events include the Goodwood Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival in Britain and Monterey Historic in the United States. Championships range from “grass root” Austin Seven racing to the FIA Thoroughbred Grand Prix Championship for classic Formula One chassis. While there are several professional teams and drivers in historical racing, this branch of auto sport tends to be contested by wealthy car owners and is thus more amateur and less competitive in its approach. In drag racing, the objective is to complete a given straight-line distance, from a standing start, ahead of a vehicle in a parallel lane.
For the men’s division, Raw features a primary, secondary, and tag team championship, while SmackDown features two jointly held and defended primary titles (promoted as an undisputed championship) along with a secondary and tag team title. There is also a specialty championship available to wrestlers from both brands as well as NXT and defended exclusively on the online program Speed. There are currently 20 championships in WWE divided among the three brands. Raw has a primary, secondary, and tag team championship for male wrestlers and a primary and secondary championship for female wrestlers.