The reigning world champion progressed up the field early in the race with some daring manoeuvres, but a number of spins and off-track excursions hampered his race.
The British driver was disappointed he did not taken advantage of the treacherous conditions but was satisfied with a points finish.
“I love racing in the wet and I would say that was one of my worst wet performances,†Hamilton said. … Details & Pictures
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Phil Garcia had a strategy to make it across the near-freezing pond on his snowboard.
“I just had to lean on the back and apply slow aft pressure,” the 24-year-old Laguna Niguel resident said after he was one of a handful of skiers and boarders to skim the entire 107-foot-long pool in front of Mammoth Mountain’s Canyon Lodge. “We talked about it and I did it on my first time.”
Garcia was one of many Orange County residents to attend the ski resort’s 10th Annual Pond Skim contest at Canyon Lodge on Sunday, drawing a crowd of more than 2,000. The event celebrated the end …Â Details & Pictures
LONG BEACH – Racing through the Grand Prix of Long Beach course in Formula Drift cars is challenging enough. Doing it with two other drivers only increases the level of difficulty.
Throw together three drivers who earned their pro licenses only a few months ago and the chances of successfully sliding and winding through the street circuit becomes nearly impossible.
But that’s what Michael Essa, Cody Parkhouse and Dan Pina are going to attempt today in the Formula Drift exhibition.
Parkhouse’s teammates…Â Details
The first two races of the Formula One season had ended in anticlimax, in a parade behind the safety car or motionless on the starting grid under pouring rain. The Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai on Sunday, the third race, began under rain and behind the safety car, but the rest was palpitating racing to the end.
After a festival of passing and pit stops and cars sliding off the track, the Red Bull team scored its first victory in its fifth season in the sport, and threw in a second place for good measure…Â Details