Sentence examples for a poor race from inspiring English sources

But an indifferent qualifying performance was followed by a poor race.

Webber had a poor race, Ferrari made the mistake of adjusting Alonso's strategy to compete with Webber.

As for myself, I've been recovering from what was a poor race last time out at Indianapolis.

But it is going to be a lot harder to leapfrog all those drivers unless each one has a poor race that allows Johnson to pass him in the standings.

World champions Red Bull should be their closest challengers, despite a poor race in Austria two weeks ago.

Pedrosa had a bit of a poor race in Phillip Island, while Dovizioso had a pretty good one, so I think that fight is finely poised.

Parvenu (sired by Uncas, out of Necromancy) was purchased by Smith in 1891 as a two-year old and was initially considered to be a poor racing prospect by the general public due to his repeated losses early in the season.

Sire De Grugy, a former champion two-miler, was well held in last place of the seven but he ran a similarly poor race on his reappearance last autumn before winning the Tingle Creek next time.

Monaco was an unusually poor race for Alonso and Ferrari and it has left awkward questions hanging over their title campaign heading into this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.

The current system has been criticized for not rewarding victors as much as it should and penalizing top drivers for a few poor races.

Having secured the world championship in Austin, Texas, in 2015, Hamilton went eight races without a win, a run which included two identical technical failures in qualifying in China and Russia, some poor race starts and an accident in Barcelona with Rosberg that knocked both drivers out.