Track Cycling events fit into two broad categories, Sprint races and Endurance races.

Sprint riders will train specifically to compete in races of this length and will not compete in longer endurance races.

Villeneuve racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in early 2008. In a subsequent interview with Autosport magazine, Villeneuve's manager Craig Pollock confirmed that Villeneuve's Formula One career was over It was announced on August 24, 2007 that Villeneuve would run the remaining seven races in the Craftsman Truck Series driving a Toyota Tundra for Bill Davis Racing and undertake a full-time Sprint Cup schedule in 2008.

It has hosted nearly every type of road racing, from the Formula One United States Grand Prix ( 1961 – 1980 ), to one of the few races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series not conducted on an oval speedway.

Nationwide Series races are frequently held in the same venue as, and a day prior to, the Sprint Cup race scheduled for that weekend, encouraging fans to attend both events.

The program was abandoned by the Sprint Cup Series in 2005, but the Nationwide Series continued to use rain tires in races at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez and Circuit Gilles Villeneuve since the races could not be planned with rain dates.

Montoya finished the first 26 races in eighth place in the standings, which made him the first foreign born driver to qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Sprint races frequently are two or three-day events with heats run on successive days with the same dogs over the same course.

* Winston 500 ( disambiguation ), referring to two different NASCAR Sprint Cup races

Founded in 1931 as ' Shanklin Amateur Sailing Club ', the club has a fleet of Sprint 15 catamarans and holds races three days a week during the season.

Stewart qualified for the 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup as he finished the first 26 races as points leader.

During his NASCAR career, Tony Stewart once was told by No. 20 team owner Joe Gibbs that he could no longer compete in races outside of his Sprint Cup obligations.

Steven races in the Nationwide Series and he will make his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut at the 2011 Daytona 500 making him the fourth member of his family to compete in the Daytona 500 and in NASCAR, behind the Bodines ( Geoff, Brett, and Todd ), Pettys ( Lee, Richard, and Kyle ), Earnhardts ( Dale, Kerry and Dale Jr .), and the Allisons ( Bobby, Donnie, and Davey ).

The race is currently part of the Super Weekend at the Brickyard, which features races for the Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and Grand Am.

After the first race, Talladega would host two Sprint Cup Series races a year, one of which would become part of the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Talladega Superspeedway hosts many NASCAR events which include two Sprint Cup Series races, one Nationwide Series race, and one Camping World Truck Series race.

The Sprint Cup Series races include the Aaron's 499, and the Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 which are both 188 laps each or.

In 2008, the Nationwide Series and Truck Series began implementation of tapered spacers in the engines to restrict power compared to Sprint Cup cars at all 35 ( NNS ) and 25 ( NCTS ) races.

In restrictor plate racing the packs have brought about an often-enormous increase in positional passing ; at Talladega Superspeedway the Sprint Cup cars have broken 40 official lead changes sixteen times from 1988 onward, including both 2010 Sprint Cup races at Talladega, which had 87 official lead changes in the regulation 188 laps.

The modern events in which athletes compete in at the World Cup and Olympics are ( distances presented in Female / Male format ): 1 km Sprint, 2X1 km Team Sprint, 10 km / 15 km Individual Start, 15 km / 30 km Pursuit, 30 km / 50 km Mass Start, and 4x5 km / 4x10 km Relay.

The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series, and the Camping World Truck Series.

According to the International Triathlon Union, and USA Triathlon, the main international race distances are Sprint Distance, which has a swim, cycling, run ; Intermediate ( or Standard ) distance, commonly referred to as " Olympic distance " ( swim, bike, run ; the Long Course ( swim, ride, run, such as the Half Ironman ), and Ultra Distance ( swim, ride, and a full marathon: run ); the most recognized branded Ultra Distance is the Ironman triathlon.

* The major cellphone companies in the U. S. are AT & T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile

Championship points awarded are equal to that of any other Sprint Cup race.

Called " Enduro " racing in the USA, most WKA & IKF sanctioned events typically last 30 minutes ( Sprint Enduro ) or 45 minutes ( Laydown Enduro ) and are run continuous without pit stops.

Most NASCAR Sprint Cup and IndyCar events are held on Sundays.

Wireless telephony services are provided by ATT Mobile, formerly Cingular, ( GSM850 / GSM1900 ), T-Mobile ( GSM1900 ), AllTel, formerly First Cellular of Southern Illinois, ( now CDMA-only although legacy GSM850 service still operates ), Verizon ( CDMA ), Nextel Partners ( iDEN ), and Sprint PCS ( CDMA ).

In the United States of America there are two large public iDEN service providers: Sprint Nextel and SouthernLINC Wireless, and several small public and private iDEN service providers.

Parlay X implementations are now ( September 2004 ) in commercial service from BT and Sprint.

Most mobile phone operator discourage or prohibit permanent roaming since they must pay per minute rates to the network operator their customer is roaming onto to ,< ref > Roaming-Included Plans: .... Sprint may terminate service if ( 1 ) more than 800 minutes, ( 2 ) a majority of minutes or ( 3 ) a majority of data kilobytes in a given month are used while roaming.

Many Sprint Cup drivers are expected to make an appearance in the Rolex Sports Car Series race in preparation for the Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen two weeks later.

Window nets to prevent objects from entering the driver compartment are constructed of polypropylene webbing, as are helmet nets used to reduce side loads to the head in Sprint cars.

* Appeared in a 2008 Toyota commercial where the cars of Toyota Sprint Cup drivers, including Stewart's, are driven by kids with remote controls.

The pony cars are expected to make their way to NASCAR's premier Sprint Cup Series in the 2014 season.

A bridge over the Sprint Expressway joins the two parts of Bandar Utama, sections BU1 until BU10 and BU11 with BU12, which are separated by Sprint Expressway.

Like the Sprint All-Star Race held at Charlotte, the race carries no championship points for the winner but instead a large purse — circumstances which are supposed to encourage an all-out driving style not seen in regular-season races.

It is generally believed that current NASCAR owners have agreed never to use the No. 3 in Sprint Cup competition again, although this is not official NASCAR policy.

Sprint spikes generally have a very stiff spike plate with the greatest number of spike wells.

; Sprint: The last 500 meters of most races are generally at a much higher rating than the rest of the race, as crews pull to exhaustion.

NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series generally harnesses an 8 million person audience on television, as well as sold-out crowds at many tracks.

On October 5, 1999 Sprint Corporation and MCI WorldCom announced a $ 129 billion merger agreement between the two companies.

In 1999, the company hired former assistant attorney general Anne Bingaman, married to Democratic New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, as a Washington lobbyist, paying her $ 2. 5 million between January and June 1999 to try to block licensing of an AT & T, MCI, and Sprint consortium cable from the U. S. to Japan.

Full Roaming is available between Sprint / Nextel in the US, Telus ( Canada ), and NII ( Mexico and S. American markets ) Data / Voice / Radio.

In between could be found such combinations of luxury and performance as the Mercedes-Benz 300SL and 190SL, BMW 507, Alfa Romeo 1900 Sprint, and DKW 1000Sp.

Based on a 1996 agreement between Sprint and BellSouth, it is likely that this is a result of a ten-year contract.

* Pivot Wireless, a cell phone service, created by a joint venture between Sprint and multiple cable companies

* The NASCAR Sprint Cup end-of-season awards banquet was held at the Waldorf-Astoria every year between 1981 and 2008, initially in the Starlight Room, but since 1985 in the Grand Ballroom, except 2001 and 2002.

CAMI Automotive ( by that time a joint venture between General Motors & Suzuki ) began building the Canada-exclusive Chevrolet Sprint in 1989.

* Sprint ( cycling ), a track event involving a one-on-one match race between opponents who start next to each other

* Alfa Romeo Sprint, automobile produced by Alfa Romeo between 1976 and 1989

The Alfa Romeo SZ ( Sprint Zagato ) or ES-30 ( Experimental Sportscar 3. 0 litre ) is a high-performance limited-production sports car / road-concept car built between 1989 and 1991 with partnership via Centro Stile Zagato, Centro Stile Alfa Romeo and Centro Stile Fiat.

In 2011, he drove for Tommy Baldwin Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, alternating between the # 35 and # 36 teams, with sponsorship from Luke & Associates.

However, including that race, Geoff Bodine only made 18 starts in the NASCAR Winston / Nextel / Sprint cup Series between 2001 and 2004, with only one top five and two top 10s, both in 2002.

In its original format, the Scrabble Sprint round was played between the winner of the Crossword game and the returning champion.

A classic course is 4 – 6 miles ( 6 – 10 km ) in length or 10 to 35 minutes in duration, while the Sprint is between 500 and 750 meters and lasts around 2 minutes.

SUNET together with Sprint and TeliaSonera took part in a 40 Gbit / s transmission on a single wavelength between Luleå, Sweden and New York using TAT-14.

Founded in 2001 as joint venture between the Virgin Group and Sprint Corporation, Virgin Mobile USA began offering service as a mobile virtual network operator in 2002 via the Sprint CDMA 1900 MHz PCS digital network.

This Week in NASCAR replaced the NASCAR Sprint Cup race re-cap and analysis show, moving into a “ handoff ” position between events, reviewing topical items from previous races in all three NASCAR national touring series, while also looking forward to upcoming events.

These workers need to take advantage of 3G type services whereby a cellular company ( like Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint / Nextel ) provide data access between the handheld device and the companies back-end network.

Instead, the diverse cultures of the two companies led to internal clashes between former Sprint and Nextel employees and the resulting internal conflict led to serious customer service issues.

She also won 38 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals between 1978 and 2005, including 28 golds.

A few weeks later, he won the Autism Speaks 400, scoring his first Sprint Cup Series win with an interval of seven seconds between himself and pole sitter Ryan Newman.

At the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Opalev has won 20 medals between 1997 and 2007.