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unusual facts about Win the Race


Eric Singleton

He appeared for the first time on the comeback version of "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" in 1998, then for the next few years he was heard on every single Modern Talking song released, until "Last Exit to Brooklyn" in 2001 (except "Win the Race").



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1928 24 Hours of Le Mans

Bernard Rubin, co-driver of the winning Bentley 4½ Litre (nicknamed "Old Mother Gun") alongside Bentley director Woolf Barnato, was the first Australian born driver to win Le Mans, and the first driver born in the Southern Hemisphere to win the race.

1956 Tour de France

The cycling fans had not been happy to see unknown Walkowiak win the race, and he was not cheered for when the race finished in the Parc des Princes.

2011 Amstel Gold Race

Gilbert also became only the second rider to win the race in consecutive years after Jan Raas' four consecutive victories between 1977 and 1980.

2011 Masters of Formula 3

Despite his disqualification for causing the accident with Daniel Juncadella, Roberto Merhi sealed the inaugural FIA Formula 3 International Trophy at this race on the virtue of his closest rival, Marco Wittmann, failing to win the race.

2013 Federated Auto Parts 400

Many in the garage suspected that Bowyer had spun out in an attempt to manipulate the outcome of the race so that teammate Truex would gain a Chase spot, in an incident dubbed the Singapore Sling, after the 2008 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix Formula One race, where Nelson Piquet, Jr. intentionally caused a caution to give an advantage to teammate Fernando Alonso, who would win the race.

Ayele Abshero

He was the favourite to win the race and fulfilled the predictions, taking the junior gold medal ahead of the persevering Kenyan Titus Mbishei who had pushed the race tempo throughout.

Christoph Strasser

On June 24, 2011, Strasser became the third Austrian after Franz Spilauer and Wolfgang Fasching to win the Race Across America.

Cox Plate

Surround became the first three-year-old filly to win the race in 1976, when she defeated the VRC Derby winner Unaware.

Francis Scarpaleggia

During the 2006 Liberal Party of Canada leadership contest Scarpaleggia was one of two Quebec MPs who backed the candidacy of Stéphane Dion, who ultimately went on to win the race on December 2, 2006 at the Montreal convention centre.

Geraldton Gold Cup

In 2007, Tapdog became the first horse to win the race three times.

Giovanni Battaglin

He withstood the final test – the final stage’s individual time trial to win the race in Verona ahead of Tommy Prim.

Henri Pescarolo

He has yet to win the race as a team owner, coming very close in 2005 with the Pescarolo C60H.

Keisuke Kunimoto

At the end of the season, Kunimoto went to Macau with TOM'S and won the Macau F3 Grand Prix, becoming the second Japanese driver to win the race after Takuma Sato.

Leanda Cave

About 3 miles from the finish, Cave overtook Switzerland's Caroline Steffen who had held the lead in the run from the start and then went on to win the race.

Michelle Mungall

Mungall was not expected to win the race, which was expected to be close between the incumbent Progressive Conservative Mary O'Neill and the Liberal challenger Len Bracko.

Nina Carberry

In 2011 she won the Irish Grand National on Organisedconfusion which was trained by her uncle Arthur Moore and became only the second woman rider to win the race.

Otto van Veen

Another example familiar to us today as the story of The Tortoise and the Hare (originally a fable by Aesop), is titled "Perseverance winneth: The hare and the tortes layd a wager of their speed ..." shows us a cupid and tortoise outpacing the hare and exemplifying the idea that the love which is steady and constant will ultimately win the race.

Passage du Gois

The crash created a six minute split in the peloton which ended the hopes of many favourites to win the race, like Alex Zülle, who would eventually finish second overall, seven minutes after Lance Armstrong.

Robin Bourne-Taylor

It was the first time in fifty years that the crew behind at Barnes Bridge had gone onto win the race.

Venetia Williams

This victory made her only the second female trainer to win the race, after Jenny Pitman.