When The Monkees finished in 1969 – 70, I should have got away from Hollywood and got back into the racing game.

When you ’ re racing with the same boat, same engine, and same performance – the only difference between winning and losing is you.

When the Union Internationale Motonautique, the world governing authority for powerboat racing, introduced the World Offshore Championship in 1967 as a memorial to Sam Griffith, the American founder of modern offshore racing, the course was found to be too short at to qualify as a championship heat.

When NASCAR was first formed by Bill France, Sr. in 1948 to regulate stock car racing in the U. S., there was a requirement that any car entered be made entirely of parts available to the general public through automobile dealers.

When racing at high speed, the rider who manages to stay just behind his opponent can draft, expending less effort.

When traveling through the turns at racing speed, which may exceed 85 km / h ( about 52 mph ), the banking attempts to match the natural lean of a bicycle moving through that curve.

When a car is 10 miles ( an hour ) off the pace, it's not appropriate to be racing.

When Berger died in 1974, Félix inherited his multi-million dollar thoroughbred horse racing stable.

When GT racing revived after the collapse of the World Sports Car Championship at the end of 1992, the lead in defining rules was taken by the ACO.

When not racing, Villeneuve lives between Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland and Montreal, Canada.

When parimutuel betting was introduced in 1908, the racing industry turned around.

When Quarter Horse racing began, it was very expensive to lay a full mile of track so it was agreed that a straight track of four hundred meters, or one quarter of a mile would be laid instead.

When the chick hatches, it digs its way out, and once they emerge at the top of the mound are renowned for standing stationary at the top for up to twenty minutes before racing / staggering off into the bush.

When a professional Italian cycling team comes to town for a racing event, Dave is thrilled to be competing with them.

When World War II broke out in 1939, motor racing ceased and the site was turned over to war-time production of military aircraft.

When the sisters burst upon the music scene in the late 1930s, they shook a very solid musical foundation: producing a slick harmonic blend by singing at the top of their lungs while trying-successfully-to emulate the blare of three harmonizing trumpets, with a full big band racing behind them.

When Gilera and Moto Guzzi pulled out of Grand Prix racing at the end of 1957, Surtees and MV Agusta went on to dominate the competition in the two larger displacement classes.

When racing resumed, speeds quickly increased.

When Tony George ( Hulman's grandson ) inherited the track, he brought more racing to the Speedway, with NASCAR in 1994 ( the Brickyard 400, known from 2005 to 2009 as the Allstate 400 at The Brickyard ), and an International Race of Champions ( IROC ) event in 1998.

When not busy with the racing season, A. J.

When racing, the above skills need to be refined and additional skills and techniques learned, such as the application of the " racing rules of sailing ", boat handling skills when starting and when rounding marks, and knowledge of tactics and strategy.

When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

When he returned home, the station wagon loaded with tools, Jinny had gone with a friend to some meeting in the village, using the recently purchased second car.

When they do that my wife has to drive me to work in the big car.

When I drove a car with tail fins, I had plenty status at the wind-and-water oases.

When the car, with Susan's hands waving wildly from the rear window, disappeared down the driveway, Lucy stood looking after its pale dust.

When Bobbie Evans smashed up his car, the Jaguar his wife Linda had given him for his last birthday, and himself quite thoroughly with it, driving back from an afternoon's golf at Oakmont, it seemed to mark the end of a long, miswritten chapter in the social life of the community.

When one station is finished with a car, it passes it on to the next.

When the third car ’ s engine has been mounted, it then can be moved to the hood station ; meanwhile, subsequent cars ( if any ) can be moved to the engine installation station.

When you drive a car at night through falling rain, the rain drops illuminated by your car's headlights appear to fall from a position in the sky well in front of your car.

When asked, Earnhardt said that vacating the No. 3 car was the hardest thing he'd ever done.

When a caution came out with 15 laps to go, leader Terry Labonte got hit from behind by the lapped car of Darrell Waltrip.

When the car is moving to the left, each successive wave is emitted from a position further to the left than the previous wave.

When the Azzuri crashed out to France in the 1986 tournament and Scirea retired, the mantle was passed to Baresi who returned to the side, a responsibility that become more poignant when Scirea was killed in a car accident aged 36, only months before Italy was to host the World Cup.

When purchasing a new house the buyer has less legal protection than when buying a new car.

When a car is used as collateral for a loan the lender usually requires specific coverage.

When it became obvious that the United States was eventually going to become involved in the war raging in Europe, the U. S. Army contacted 135 companies asking for working prototypes of a four-wheel-drive reconnaissance car.

When a young mechanic failed to repair the car in a way satisfactory to Stein, the garage owner shouted at the boy, " You are all a " génération perdue.

When Volkswagen introduced a sliding side door on their van in 1968, it then had all the features that would later come to define a minivan: compact length, three rows of forward-facing seats, station wagon-style top-hinged tailgate / liftgate, sliding side door, passenger car base.

When in 1942 it became clearer that the fighting would go on for a while, car and truck factories were switched to war work in a modest way, Opel taking up the production of aircraft parts and tanks.

When the 924 turbo models came out, Car and Driver magazine proclaimed the car " Fast ... at Last!

When traveling the Presidential limousine is always accompanied by support cars ( normally BMW 5 series driven by members of the SDU ) and several Garda motorcycle outriders which form a protective convoy around the car.

When, by July 1945, the Mladá Boleslav factory had been reconstructed, production of Škoda's first post-World War II car, the 1101 series began.