He entered the season's final race, the Hooters 500 in Atlanta, as one of six drivers in contention to winning the championship ; but an engine failure on lap 160 ended his championship hopes.

The previous evening, Walter Hayes, public affairs director of Ford of Dagenham, who had contributed £ 75, 000 toward the development of the Cosworth-Ford V8, demonstrated his confidence in a good showing by the two Lotus-Ford drivers when he proposed that they should flip a coin to choose the winner, in case both cars were in contention at the end of the race!

Before the race, the final round of the 1997 season, two drivers were still in contention for the world drivers ' championship.

He even entered the final round as one of three drivers in contention for the title, despite not winning a race.

Wilson joined the team for 2005, and both drivers have been in regular contention for podium finishes.

A driver is still in contention as long as the difference between the leader and such driver is no greater than 156 points ( the difference between first and 43rd ) multiplied by the number of races remaining, provided said drivers start all remaining races.

It is reasonably economical for the state to have drivers garage state cars at their homes.

The state has recently undertaken liability insurance for drivers of state cars.

Then, too, European drivers have reputations for being somewhat crazy on the road and some Americans are not particularly keen on getting mixed up with them.

Ten students act as managers for a high-school football team, and of these managers a proportion P are licensed drivers.

The questions women asked at baseball games were standard grist for amateur comedy, as were the doings of women automobile drivers ; ;

One common replacement for LocalTalk was PhoneNet, a 3rd party solution ( from a company called Farallon, now called Netopia ) that also used the RS-422 port and was indistinguishable from LocalTalk as far as Apple's LocalTalk port drivers were concerned, but ran over the two unused wires in standard four-wire phone cabling.

On the way to Zion, Uzzah, one of the drivers of the cart whereon the Ark was carried, put out his hand to steady the Ark, and was smitten by God for touching it.

Politically, tourism is the more important of the two, as it employs a greater number of people within the Territory, and a larger proportion of the businesses in the tourist industry are locally owned, as are a number of the highly tourism-dependent sole traders ( for example, taxi drivers and street vendors ).

Due to the costs involved in owning, operating and driving buses and coaches, many bus and coach uses a private hire of vehicles from charter bus companies, either for a day or two, or a longer contract basis, where the charter company provides the vehicles and qualified drivers.

The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; they are sometimes used for CD singles, storing up to 24 minutes of audio or delivering device drivers.

* Catalyst Control Center, control panel for AMD Catalyst drivers

This is why it is better for players to begin with fairway drivers, long drivers, or even mid-ranges, and incorporate maximum distance drivers as their strength and disc control increases.

Academic titles are used exclusively within academia, and have no meaning or implication for public life or documentation ( e. g. passport, drivers licence ).

The task of writing drivers thus usually falls to software engineers who work for hardware-development companies.

But in recent years non-vendors have written numerous device drivers, mainly for use with free and open source operating systems.

Microsoft has attempted to reduce system instability due to poorly written device drivers by creating a new framework for driver development, called Windows Driver Foundation ( WDF ).

This includes User-Mode Driver Framework ( UMDF ) that encourages development of certain types of drivers — primarily those that implement a message-based protocol for communicating with their devices — as user mode drivers.

Apple has an open-source framework for developing drivers on Mac OS X called the I / O Kit.

Common levels of abstraction for device drivers include:

Choosing and installing the correct device drivers for given hardware is often a key component of computer system configuration.

The best example for virtual device drivers can be " Daemon Tools ".

* I / O Kit – an open-source framework from Apple for developing Mac OS X device drivers

Jack Brabham was 40 when he won the F1 drivers ' title in a Brabham car.

In the 1986 season, Vatanen's young replacement Juha Kankkunen beat Lancia's Markku Alén to the drivers ' title and Peugeot took its second manufacturers ' title ahead of Lancia.

Marcus Grönholm gave the car its first win at the 2000 Swedish Rally, and Peugeot went on to win the manufacturers ' title in their first full year since the return, and Grönholm the drivers ' title in his first full WRC season.

Grönholm also took the drivers ' title.

Jones won the " unofficial " drivers ’ title.

In 1989, its silver anniversary year, the Mustang won Ford its first Trans-Am manufacturers ’ title since 1970, with Dorsey Schroeder winning the drivers ’ championship.

Montoya is one of two drivers to have won the CART title in his rookie year, the first being Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell in 1993.

Both drivers finished the season with equal number of points but having won seven races to the Scotsman's three decided the title in the Colombian's favor.

In July 2011, the City of Los Angeles launched a massive media campaign under the title " Carmageddon " to warn drivers about a major closure on the 405 Freeway during the weekend of July 15 – 17.

It then scored its first outright Group A victories with a Galant VR-4 in the late ' 80s, Mitsubishi homologated the Lancer Evolution, and in the hands of Finland's Tommi Mäkinen, winner of the drivers ' title for four consecutive years ( 1996 – 1999 ), they won the manufacturers ' championship in 1998.

Al Ain Raceway was selected to host the 2007 Rotax Max World Karting Finals, an event which saw 220 drivers from over 55 different countries compete for the Karting world title.

With the Subaru works team, Solberg finished runner-up to Marcus Grönholm in 2002 and then became the first Norwegian to win the drivers ' world title in 2003.

By then, he seemed, for much of the European season, to have perhaps the only realistic shot at the drivers ' title of his career after he won the European Grand Prix ( at the Nürburgring ) and the French Grand Prix within the space of a week.

With drivers such as Carlos Sainz, Colin McRae and Markko Märtin, the Martini-liveried Fords won several rallies, but never the title.

He added a second career victory on his swansong outing for Mitsubishi on that year's Rally Great Britain, the event where the dramatic late retirement from fourth of Toyota's Carlos Sainz secured the drivers ' title for his team-mate and first leg super special stage retiree on a patch of oil, Tommi Makinen, as well as confirming the constructors ' accolade for Mitsubishi.

For 1974 Marlboro dissolved its sponsorship of both teams and became famously associated with the McLaren team, which brought it its first constructors ' championship and its drivers title for Emerson Fittipaldi.

He won the World Rally Championship drivers ' title with Toyota in 1990 and 1992, and finished runner-up four times.

In the 1990 season, Sainz drove his GT-Four to victory at the Acropolis Rally, at the Rally New Zealand, at the 1000 Lakes Rally, as the first non-Nordic driver, and at the RAC Rally, claiming his first world drivers ' title, ahead of Lancia's Didier Auriol and Kankkunen, ending the Italian marque's domination of the drivers ' world championship since the advent of the Group A era of the sport in 1987.

Toyota won the manufacturers ' title, but the drivers ' championship was only settled on the final round, with Didier Auriol winning ahead of Sainz.

In a close battle for the drivers ' world championship title, he edged out his teammates Biasion and Alén by winning the season-ending RAC Rally.

By winning the RAC ahead of Kenneth Eriksson and Sainz, Kankkunen became the first man to seal a third drivers ' title since the World Rally Championship's 1973 inauguration.

Despite having to fare from mid-season with two substitute co-drivers after Juha Piironen suffered a brain hemorrhage, Kankkunen went on to take a record fourth drivers ' title by winning five of his ten WRC events ; the Safari Rally with Piironen, the Rally Argentina, the Rally Australia and the RAC Rally with his new co-driver Nicky Grist, and the 1000 Lakes Rally with Denis Giraudet due to Grist's pre-arrangement with Armin Schwarz.