"We'll surely play four seamers in the Windies and our batsmen tend to prefer the quicker tracks out there.
for quicker tracks, go for a more pop feel, with snares, kicks, toms, and so on.
He'd beaten them twice on a slow track, he could beat them twice more on a quick track.
Gay exploded out of the blocks for a torrid opening stretch on the quick track at Icahn Stadium and had the race all but won halfway through.
By contrast, the new funds are intended to establish a quick track record that can be used in a year or two to attract other mainstream hedge-fund investors.
They got off to the worst of starts on the opening day, 12 February, when Nodar Kumaritashvili, a 21-year-old luge slider from Georgia, was killed during a training run after losing control on a notoriously quick track, which led to questions over safety.
A technique utilising accelerometer measurements taken on standard operating bogies was accepted as a quick track condition inspection of a subway [10] with a particular focus on short-pitch rail corrugation.
I appreciate the technical challenges of building a truly quick track car, but building a great track car that is also a great road car – a car that is totally drivable on public roads yet somehow still feels comically inappropriate in such a setting – is some sort of black art.
The 1/2000 value was chosen in reference to the chronometric limits used on the quickest track race: it represents half of a 1/100th of a second on the 100m (and about 4s on a marathon or 100g in weight lifting disciplines).
It takes unwavering willpower to attain this kind of spiritual progress, and there is no quick fix or fast track to transcendence. Malcolm Gladwell talks about the 10,000 hours rule, the time investment that one has to put in when striving for mastery of any kind of vocation.
