"fierce race" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a competitive or intense competition or rivalry between individuals or groups. Here is an example: "The two athletes were neck and neck in the fierce race for the gold medal."
His bombshell entry turned an academic pursuit into a fierce race.
The primary followed a fierce race that often seemed more a referendum on Mr. Hynes's lengthy record than a choice between two candidates.
In the fierce race to succeed Mr. Ognibene, who is barred by term limits from running for re-election, the question is whether the 30th Council District, which includes Ridgewood and Glendale, will continue to be represented by a Republican.
Chicago joined three cities Wednesday in moving a step closer to becoming the host of the 2016 Olympics, setting up a final, fierce race to see which one will hold those Summer Games.
The reaction had nothing to do with the governor's role as a former presidential candidate, but everything to do with his support for a fellow Republican, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who is locked in a fierce race with a former Texas solicitor general, Ted Cruz, to determine the Republican nominee for the state's open United States Senate seat.
By that time, at the beginning of 1939, Bohr was in the United States, where a fierce race to confirm experimentally the so-called fission of the nucleus began after the news of the German experiments and their explanation had become known.
When Maserati and Ferrari were fierce racing rivals, Pininfarina could not keep both as clients and threw in with Ferrari.
WASHINGTON — The fight for the Senate has shifted significantly over the past weeks, with fierce races breaking out in states where they were not expected and other contests dimming that were once ablaze with competition.
The exhausted English pair crawled over to hug each other as the unexpectedly hot conditions and fierce racing took their toll.
A fierce leadership race erupted between Representatives Nancy Pelosi of California and Martin Frost of Texas.
He was in a fierce Senate race with the Republican incumbent, John Ashcroft, who is now the attorney general.
