The first racer felled was a 40-year-old New Yorker, Vadim Khazatsky, who participated as part of Team RacingThePlanet.com.
Should Vonn manage to secure a fourth overall title in Lenzerheide, she would be the second racer to win four titles since the World Cup began in 1967.
Currently tied with three others with three titles apiece, the American could become the first racer to earn four since the World Cup began in 1967.
He won the French Grand Prix (1923) and the San Sebastian Grand Prix (1924) in Spain, in which he was the first racer to wear a crash helmet.
She was the first racer on the course, which deprived her of the chance to watch others negotiate the trickier parts of the course.
Antron Brown defeated Del Worsham at the National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel finals on Sunday at Indianapolis, becoming the first racer to achieve victories in Top fuel and Pro Stock Motorcycles at the dragstrip.
Given the snow conditions, in retrospect, the American with the best chance at getting on the medal podium might have been Caroline Lalive, the second racer on the course.
Sir William, a bay colt is the first racer bred in the State of Washington to win such an important stake race.
The first racer, a Swede with the Jumble-ready surname of Jaerbyn, hurtled into the padding at the end of the runout, giving us a sense of the speed the racers carry down the course.
Darrell Wallace Jr., 18, the first racer to come out of Nascar's Drive for Diversity program and compete in one of the three major series, was ninth in his Nationwide debut.
