They would stay in those positions, but there was some lively racing farther back in the pack, as Felipe Massa in the other Ferrari drove past the Williams car of Bruno Senna, after the two cars touched and Massa slid around.
But as changes in voting laws across the country portend a rush of election-year battles, some lower courts are mining Bush v. Gore for what it tells judges about counting disputed votes and whether it controls races farther down the ballot.
All the action, the go-kart race, came farther back.
The 36 hours wasted in obeying this long-distance instruction cost Rommel his chance of making a stand at Fūka: when he resumed his retreat, he had to race much farther back to escape successive British attempts to intercept him on the coast road by scythelike sweeps from the south.
It was, like all long road races, an all-male field, as at the time women weren't permitted to race over distances farther than 1,500 metres for fear their wombs would drop out.
Usually, a good way to test the durability of a swing in the polls is to ask whether it brings the race closer or farther from the so-called fundamentals, like the president's approval ratings.
There was a time when winning races on Sunday meant sales on Monday, but the general populous might have moved from that mentality as the race cars drifted farther from production models.
The reality of American politics is that the parties have sorted themselves into more ideologically coherent groups in the last few decades, mostly because of issues related to race, pushing them farther apart from one another.
"It's all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward". Nelson is a Times staff writer.
