I award the Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn a virtual checkered flag for her article about Lewis Hamilton and Formula One racing (July 27).
One of the pit crew members waved a checkered flag, signaling that the track was clear for my last lap.
In the first two days of racing, Bud Light and Miss Geico each took a checkered flag.
The potential reward for all this is a victory cocktail made of equal parts velocity, adrenaline and gamesmanship, stirred with a checkered flag signifying status as fastest family member.
"We came down here to party," said Arrigio, who wore a blue cowboy hat and fingernail polish in the pattern of a checkered flag.
Then, just like in the real races, a guy with a checkered flag came out in front of the cars.
It was raced to a checkered flag by British Formula One champion Stirling Moss at the Cuban Grand Prix in 1958.
"That is the most-asked question, and I don't have an answer for you, I'm sorry," Johnson said a week ago at Texas, after he outraced Kenseth to the checkered flag for his third win in a row.
Biffle raced to victory Sunday in the often-delayed Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., to end a 64-race Nascar Sprint Cup winless streak and take the checkered flag for Roush, his injured team owner.
