13-Year-Old Sawyer Stone Is the Youngest Grand Champion in Great Race History; 24th Annual Great Race Finish Line.SAN RAFAEL San Rafael (săn rəfĕl`), residential city (1990 pop. 48,404), seat of Marin co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1913. , Calif. -- 24th Annual Great Race:
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Video includes Great Race finish line footage, classic cars in
previous races across the U.S., and interviews with drivers.
The Winners: Navigator See Netscape Navigator, Netscape and Norton Navigator. Navigator - Netscape Navigator 13-year-old Sawyer Stone is the youngest Grand Champion in Great Race history. With his grandfather, the driver David Reeder, the uncompromising grandfather-grandson duo won the 24th Annual Great Race today in San Rafael, Calif. by crossing the finish line in their classic 1916 Hudson. When Sawyer was asked by reporters what he would be doing with the $100,000 prize money, without skipping a beat: "We are turning the prize purse PURSE. In Turkey the sum of five hundred dollars is called a purse. Merch. Dict. h.t. into an opportunity to compete in the Great Race World 2008: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to Paris." Story: The 24th annual Great Race, a cross-country road-rally for classic cars, reached its Grand Finale For the music notation program, see . A finale (italian word) is a closing part, act or movement of a dramatic or musical composition, or more generally any event or procedure with a dramatically concluding effect. on July 8, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT in San Rafael, Calif. Starting in Philadelphia, more than 200 drivers and navigators raced across 4,200 miles through 14 states in 14 days, stopping in 46 cities before crossing the Finish Line. As a world-class competition, Great Race is the modern-day version of the "Greatest Auto Race," an around-the-world automobile race from New York to Paris in 1908. To celebrate the centennial of 1908's "Greatest Auto Race," the Great Race will go international in 2008. For more information about Great Race World 35,000 km, New York to Paris 2008, please visit www.greatrace.com. |
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