BRIEFLY : LUYENDYK WINS POLE IN INAUGURAL LAS VEGAS RACE.One era will end and another will begin today in the Indy Racing League's first Las Vegas 500K. The race will mark the inaugural event at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, is a 1,200 acre (4.9 km²) complex of four different tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. and the finale for the cars and engines used by the fledgling IRL 1. (jargon, chat) IRL - In real life. Generally synonymous with f2f. 2. (language, robotics) IRL - Industrial Robot Language. since its opening race last January at Orlando, Fla. Arie Luyendyk put himself in the record books Saturday with a pole-winning lap of 226.491 mph, a mark that will likely stand as a track record for years with the IRL set to introduce its new combination of 4-liter, non-turbocharged engines and totally new chassis next January. Dave Villwock posted the fastest qualifying speed for today's 30th Bill Muncey Cup Unlimited Hydroplane hydroplane, small, high-powered racing boat designed to skim along the surface of the water. Its hull is so shaped that at high speeds the bow is tilted up out of the water, reducing the effect of frictional drag. Hydroplanes are commonly powered by outboard motors. powerboat race on Mission Bay in San Diego. Randy LaJoie cut deeply into David Green's lead in the Busch Grand National series with a convincing victory in the MBNA MBNA Monument Builders of North America MBNA Mercedes-Benz North America MBNA Maryland Bank, National Association MBNA Maryland Bank North America MBNA Mount Baker Nurses Association (Bellingham, Washington) 200 at Dover Downs International Speedway in Delaware. Denver Nuggets Nuggets can refer to several branches of interest:
NHRA Northland Human Resource Association NHRA National Human Resources Association NHRA Nursing Home Reform Act NHRA National Hospice Regatta Alliance NHRA National Heritage Resources Act (South Africa) Pioneer Electronics Keystone Nationals in Mohnton, Pa. Hammonds lost control of his Oldsmobile Cutlass Pro Stock drag racer immediately after leaving the starting line in the left lane. The car crossed to the right lane, hit the right retaining wall and rolled. TENNIS Top-seeded Thomas Muster failed to convert on four match points in a second-set tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie before rebounding to beat Lucas Arnold in the semifinals of the Colombian World Series in Bogota. Muster, who finished off the unseeded Argentine 6-1, 6-7 (9-7), 6-3, will face defending champion Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador in today's final. Lapentti, seeded fourth, beat No. 7 Mauricio Hadad of Colombia 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. Third-seeded Carlos Moya of Spain advanced to the final of the $500,000 Romanian Open tennis tournament to face fourth-seeded countryman Alberto Berasategui. Moya, ranked 24th by the ATP ATP: see adenosine triphosphate. ATP in full adenosine triphosphate Organic compound, substrate in many enzyme-catalyzed reactions (see catalysis) in the cells of animals, plants, and microorganisms. , struggled to defeat unseeded Romanian Andrei Pavel 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 in the semifinals at Bucharest's Progresul clay court. In the second semifinal match, Berasategui, ranked 25th, upset Christian Ruud of Norway 6-0, 7-5. Patty Schnyder of Switzerland, only 17 years old, beat Italy's Flora Perfetti 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 and advanced to the semifinals of the $160,000 Pupp Czech Open in Prague. Marc-Kevin Goellner of Germany upset Australia's Jason Stoltenberg 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 to reach the final of the Bournemouth International clay-court tournament in England. Goellner, seeded No. 8, will face top-seeded Alberto Costa of Spain, who defeated Sweden's Magnus Norman 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. |
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