This was followed 24 months later by the first Dunmanway ' Lightning Sprint ' Grand Prix motorcycle meet.

Until 2005, this one-mile race track featured bi-annual NASCAR-sanctioned events in the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series divisions.

*" West End Riot " was featured in the video game World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars 2002 in the opening film clip.

** 3 Doors Down has also been featured on several NASCAR cars before with Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in 2008 for the NASCAR Sprint All Star Race and Tony Stewart in the Nationwide Series in 2003 for a race at Michigan International Speedway.

It has featured the chief compliance officers of Google, Yahoo, HP, GE, Starbucks, Pfizer, PepsiCo, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola, Sprint, McDonald's, Intel, Boeing, Fannie Mae, Altria, Ford, BP, Office Depot, Wal-Mart, and other leading public companies.

After three months spent working for the dying Owen as a teacher at Wroxeter, Baxter read theology with Francis Garbet, the local clergyman, adding to his reading ( initially in devotional writings, of Richard Sibbes, William Perkins and Ezekiel Culverwell, as well as the Calvinist Edmund Bunny at age 14, and then in the scholastic philosophers ) orthodox Church of England theology in Richard Hooker and George Downham, and arguments from conforming puritans in John Sprint and John Burges.

Stewart currently owns and drives the No. 14 Office Depot / Mobil 1 / Burger King Chevrolet Impala in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for his own team, Stewart-Haas Racing under crew chief Steve Addington.

* Alan Kulwicki ( December 14, 1954 – April 1, 1993 ), nicknamed " Special K " and the " Polish Prince ", was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series ( now Sprint Cup Series ) racecar driver.

The stadium-style facility, built in 2000, has nearly 14, 000 seats and plays host to Dirt Late Models, Modifieds, Sprint Cars, Monster Trucks and the prestigious World of Outlaws World Finals.

* Denny Hamlin won the second Gatorade Duel on February 14, 2008, making him the first ever Toyota driver to win a Sprint Cup race.

* NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Qualifying: Ryan Newman, 14. 908 s ( 128. 709 mph ), 2003

Bobby Isaac ( August 1, 1932 – August 14, 1977 ) is a former NASCAR Grand National ( now Sprint Cup Series ) champion.

Alan Dennis Kulwicki ( December 14, 1954 – April 1, 1993 ), nicknamed " Special K " and the " Polish Prince ", was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series ( now Sprint Cup Series ) racecar driver.

Doktor went on to win 14 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, including two golds ( C-1 200 m: 1998, C-1 500 m: 1997 ), nine silvers ( C-1 200 m: 1997, 1999, 2003 ; C-1 500 m: 1995, 1999 ; C-1 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001 ), and three bronzes ( C-1 500 m: 2003, C-1 1000 m: 1999, C-4 1000 m: 1998 ).

Yarbrough won two short-track races in the 1964 NASCAR Grand National ( now Sprint Cup ) season, the first year he competed in more than 14 races.

After a strong start to the season, Reutimann ranked among the top-12 drivers ( who qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup ) after finishing third at the Pocono 500 in race # 14.

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.

Sprint Center opened in 2007 and hosts concerts and sports events downtown.

Two-time Australian V8 Supercar Champion Marcos Ambrose has competed the Sprint Cup Series events since 2007.

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

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.

The western part of the county is home to a large racing complex in Concord, including Charlotte Motor Speedway, which hosts three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events a year, The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and zMAX Dragway, which now hosts the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series twice a year.

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.

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

Crew Chief Frankie Kerr was fined $ 50, 000 and was suspended from 4 NASCAR Sprint cup Championship events, and suspended from NASCAR until November, 23.

After Heiden's retirement aged 22, Boucher was among the favourites for the 1981 World Sprint Championship, but after the first day's events he was third.

" Stewart began racing there in 1991 and continues racing in special events alongside other Sprint Cup drivers and dirt track legends.

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

* Though there have been drivers who have won all three of the Sprint Cup events of Speedweeks at Daytona-the Budweiser Shootout, the Gatorade Duel, and the Daytona 500-there has not yet been a driver who won all three events in the same year.

USAC Silver Crown, Sprint Car and Midget Car races are held on the oval, along with other events suited to a shorter track.

During the 1971 racing season, the speedway removed all the events not sanctioned by NASCAR to help keep focus on the two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races, which were 500 miles each.

It is primarily noted as the location of Pocono Raceway, a track which hosts two annual NASCAR Sprint Cup races and other events, the Pocono 400 in June and the Pennsylvania 400 in August.

In July 2011, the American Royal announced that it was moving its rodeo -- the biggest event of the American Royal -- to Sprint Center, starting with the 2011 fall events.

The announcement noted Sprint Center would be a bigger performers to the event, leaving the Kemper Arena without any major events.

In August of that year, the first night race was held on the oval, one that would become one of the most popular and highly anticipated events on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series calendar.

Most races are held in conjunction with Nationwide Series races, with many also serving as support events for Sprint Cup races.

The inaugural 12-race series is set to be run on North American circuits in conjunction with Rolex Sports Car Series, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and NASCAR Nationwide Series events.

In September, he won his second Tour title at the Sprint International, by three strokes over David Duval.

Sprint lanes as seen from the 100 m starting point

With the advent of NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow, Nationwide Series cars have become very different from their Sprint Cup Series counterparts, the main differences being a slightly shorter wheelbase ( 105 " instead of 110 "), 100 pounds less weight, and a less powerful engine.

The Sprint Medley Relay usually consists of four legs run at distances of 400, 200, 200, and 800 metres, though a more uncommon variant of 200, 100, 100 and 400 metres ( Sometimes called a Short Sprint Medley ) also exists.

It provides mobile telephone coverage to 92 % of the Australian population and 68 of the top 100 markets in the US on behalf of service providers such as 3, AT & T Mobility, Telefónica O2, Orange, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone.

Euro RSCG Worldwide works with 83 of the 100 largest global advertisers including Air France, BNP Paribas, Coca Cola, General Electric, McDonald's, Sony, Walt Disney, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, Groupe Danone, Lacoste, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Jaguar, Kraft Foods, L ' Oréal, New York Stock Exchange, OppenheimerFunds Pernod Ricard, Pfizer, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Reckitt Benckiser, Sanofi-Aventis, Volvo and Sprint.