The Dirt Camp that we run in collaboration with the Dirt Track Riders Association and Greenfield dirt track in Lincolnshire is a great facility for anyone wanting to give riding a try.
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Outrunning the charging animal, we bounce along the dirt track.
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He collapsed next to a dirt track called Cemetery Road.
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The other is to navigate a rugged and barely passable dirt track.
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As I sat on the dirt track, conflicting thoughts flowed through my mind.
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Without irony, the Army had given its dirt track a name: Route Victory.
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It's late September, and Santa Anita's dirt track opens for races in two days.
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I drove quickly over the ford and up the dirt track to the house.
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Again, just like the front, the rear features custom LEDs for extra dirt track illumination.
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"This was John's first time racing on a dirt track," producer Andrea Iervolino tells PEOPLE.
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The tour went through Senegal, where cyclists rode a dirt track toward the capital, Dakar.
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They even used the same sand for their dirt track, shipped in from El Segundo.
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Samuel ran down the steep dirt track lined with blue and pink houses desperate to escape.
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Reached by a dirt track through a field, the land is some distance from the highway.
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"You go to any dirt track in the country, and they don't have those," he said.
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He lost control on a dirt track upstate and hit a concrete wall at 80 m.p.h.
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In those days, Vilakazi Street, where Mr. Mandela lived, was a rutted dirt track lacking electricity.
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The company's successful dirt-track racing program — another direct challenge to Harley — may offer some clue.
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On June 18th Indian troops moved onto the plateau to prevent the resurfacing of a dirt track.
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There isn't even a street, just a dirt track used by the island's one vehicle - a small truck.
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Down we drive onto a dirt track, where the road forks off in two directions into the wood.
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Highlights include a contest to pick the best-looking entry and dirt-track races for the speedier bikes.
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As we walked back along the rutted dirt track toward the subway, he narrated the encounter for me.
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Then along came Ms. Krause and her husband, Cliff, dirt-track race fans from Holmdel, 20 miles north.
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AT THE end of a dirt track framed by rubber trees, Herman proudly shows off his family's fish farm.
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For most of the day we walked on a packed dirt track, following a ridgeline in the Val d'Elsa.
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ALONG A DIRT track bordered by rice paddies and studded with potholes, soldiers and villagers labour side by side.
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The truck veered onto a dirt track, went another half mile or so, stopped and turned off its lights.
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Instead, he sent it to his mechanic, Lance Richards, and asked him to prep it for some dirt track racing.
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At the crest of the ridge, she stopped along a dirt track and scanned in both directions for security guards.
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Minutes after our military escort veers onto a dirt track outside of Mosul, the soldiers stop to check for bombs.
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Eventually we parked at the end of a dirt track and walked into the trench carved by the glacier's retreat.
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Initially, the dirt track was narrow enough that the forest's canopy remained intact, allowing passage to monkeys, macaws, and everything else.
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" Instead, the saying goes, "dragging a dead bearded dragon up a dirt track and also being a huge-arse brown snake.
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A year later, his car struck and killed a fellow driver, Kevin Ward Jr, at a dirt track in New York.
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Jokesters quickly counter-posted a cascade of mockingly accelerated footage, including a lightning-fast bullock cart zooming along a dirt track.
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He pulled the sled almost all the way down the dirt track, spewing a column of smoke into the summer sky.
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Richard Petty has won 13 races at Richmond, right, but nobody characterizes the dirt track versus the pavement track being different.
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NEPTIS, Iraq — The white Kia pickup turned off the desert road and rumbled onto a dirt track, stopping near a marsh.
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Below, along the river, ran a dirt track called the Harlem River Speedway, where people would parade their horses and buggies.
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Souboubou waved at a dirt track cutting through the thick grass, where the nearest medical facility was half an hour's walk away.
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Then, as if by magic, it lurched open and we proceeded down a dirt track in the shadow of a massive greenhouse.
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I was in a car headed down a dirt track toward the building with a man calling himself "Patron"—Spanish for boss.
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Serengeti Empress (10-1) finished third in the 1-1/8 mile race for fillies and mares on the fast dirt track.
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Feature Grimy, daring and deadly, dirt-track racing has become a magnet for fans — and a threat to the Nascar status quo.
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The horse is one of 9 who have died during training on the dirt track at Santa Anita over the past 10 weeks.
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The Village Fund program, launched by Widodo, paid to turn a dirt track between his house and the farm into a paved road.
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The Village Fund programme, launched by Widodo, paid to turn a dirt track between his house and the farm into a paved road.
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RAMADI, Iraq — As his armored vehicle bounced along a dirt track carved through the ruins of this recently reconquered city on Wednesday, Gen.
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Then the modern road turns away from the old route, which is traced by a dirt track before disappearing into fields and copses.
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Behind him, struggling against the dusty headwind, stretches a line of dozens of people, their heads bent down, trudging up a dirt track.
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A short dirt track was built in the infield last year, and the speedway has had several music concerts in association with races.
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Except that they traversed a "highway" that had been closed for 30 years and that remained a dirt track through the Amazon jungle.
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The tank actually drifts, nearly goes airborne and whips around the dirt track until Leno begins to look a little squeamish — and wet.
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A dirt track led from the trailhead alongside a glassy stream, passing plank-roofed cabins, pear orchards, and gardens full of blue cabbages.
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We put him out there with other professional dirt track racers as well for some of the scenes and he really held his own.
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There are no paved roads, no hotels — just rivers to cross, plants to hack away with machetes, and miles of dirt track to navigate.
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On the afternoon of the race, she arrived early to circle the pits of Bubba Raceway Park, a dirt track built among horse fields.
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But the colt is a turf horse and Churchill Downs — where the first leg of the Triple Crown is run — is a dirt track.
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Mr. Soto tossed his bird book in the back seat, and we continued down the dirt track toward the Ruta del Fin del Mundo.
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After saying goodbye to Gardner, I climb in my car and drive back along the sinuous dirt track, toward the paved road that bisects Yankeetown.
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The women are led to a side road near a dirt track, all are blindfolded, apart from the baby, and shot, according to Amnesty researchers.
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The term "dirt track" is a misnomer: The material that racehorses churn into is far more than mere soil, but a precise blend of material.
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The Waylens Horizon is begging for someone to take it to a dirt track, or on an outback drifting excursion, or through an arctic survival sprint.
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His land is at the end of a long dirt track that few vehicles can travel on, about six hours' drive from the nearest tarmac road.
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To get to Shibar, one must drive from the provincial capital of Bamian for about an hour, up a narrow dirt track carved along the mountains.
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After you pull off a single-lane highway, you follow a dirt track that peters out along the lake's shoreline, a ribbon of black volcanic sand.
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Three races later, Prayer Warrior, a three-year-old colt, was pulled up on the far turn of the dirt track with a front leg injury.
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Favourite Tacitus, whose late charge came up short, was second and Joevia third around the sprawling, 1 1/2-mile dirt track on a warm, sunny day.
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Djibouti (CNN)A dirt track at Djibouti's Doraleh Port leads to a series of unassuming single-story buildings that, earlier this year, hosted the world's two superpowers.
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A veteran BMX racer, he was accustomed to the claustrophobia of the pack, the thrown elbows, and the barely controlled choreography of speed on the dirt track.
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The first 15 minutes of training after the dirt track opens, and each time its surface is renovated, will be reserved for horses completing official timed workouts.
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I pulled my truck off a rocky dirt track that ran along the base of the Tinajas Altas Mountains and made camp as the sun was setting.
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Many have pointed to Southern California's wettest winter in almost a decade, saying the rain has made the dirt track where most of the deaths occurred too soft.
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Santa Anita's problems have centered on its 1-mile dirt track, though there have been deaths on its turf track and deaths not associated with racing or training.
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He rolled up the window and continued right where he had left off, without irony: "We're the only dirt track that has an infield care center," he said.
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Off the main road and onto a dirt track sits the tiny hamlet of Poniou, which then, as now, consists of only three cottages beside three granite footbridges.
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On the windy dirt track leading to the construction site, signs in Spanish and Mandarin proclaim the involvement of state-owned PowerChina construction company and equipment manufacturer Shanghai Electric.
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A year later, he missed three races while in seclusion after his car struck and killed a fellow driver, Kevin Ward Jr., at a dirt track in New York.
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Driving east from the town on a dirt track to join a paved road 80km or so away, your correspondent saw not a single other vehicle in two hours.
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When Charley watches him race, on a scruffy dirt track, with a few spectators idling behind ropes, it's the first time that we see the kid crack a smile.
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On the dirt track leading to the tunnels, a near continuous convoy of trucks and military vehicles delivered troops and medical equipment, including a large cache of oxygen tanks.
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Abu Dhabi (CNN)The motorcycle zipped past our taxi as we headed to Tyre in southern Lebanon, veering off the road onto a dirt track leading up into the hills.
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The standoff was ignited by Chinese roadbuilders who seemed to be preparing to pave over a dirt track to Gymochen, which China regards as the southern extent of its claim.
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His apiary, down a dirt track in San Antonio de los Banos, a farming town an hour's drive from the capital Havana, was built from scratch by employees, Alfonso said.
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A hard-charging Bravazo finished second and Tenfold was third as Good Magic faded to fourth toward the end of the 1 3/16 mile (9.5 furlongs) dirt track race.
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Numbers of evacuees have surpassed initial SDF estimates, and there was no sign of the evacuation ending on Tuesday when dozens of trucks ferried more out along dirt track roads.
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Today, there are 30 pairs of black eagles in the park, Mr. Brebner said as we entered Matobo through the main gate and followed a dirt track through the bush.
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" Lopez proceeds in a rented four-wheel drive to a sheep-ranching outpost where a geologist has arranged lodging, 120 miles from the nearest town "on an unsigned dirt track.
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This was Grandview Speedway, a rudimentary third-of-a-mile high-banked dirt track nestled in the flyspeck town of Bechtelsville, Pa., amid rolling farmland 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
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The problems at Santa Anita Park have centered on its 1-mile dirt track, though there have been deaths on its turf track and deaths not associated with racing or training.
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We use them to shoot timelapse battery tests for phones and 360 degree videos of multibillion dollar transit hubs and test runs of quarter million dollar cars on a dirt track.
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Authorities in Sao Jose dos Cordeiros send a battered Fiat to take her the 2523 km of rough dirt track into town, where she catches a minibus for the distant clinic.
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Her family's proximity to the sport didn't equal knowledge of it, and they worried about the danger inherent in riding a 250-pound bike at high speeds on a dirt track.
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Up on the hill, where rescuers are seeking alternative routes down into the cave, another accident occurred when a vehicle skidded off a dirt track, seriously injuring several people, authorities said.
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The main dirt track and turf courses were in a third day of examination on Saturday in an effort to uncover what may have led to the series of catastrophic breakdowns.
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Early one morning, I catch the 'rat bus'—a truck that transports the rats from their kennel—along a bumpy road to a kiosk at the end of a red dirt track.
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In minutes, the buildings thin out, and the road whittles down to a dirt track with bright green nagali maize fields on either side, interrupted only by mud houses with thatched roofs.
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Now those who would destroy the jungle are moving in from bordering states, following the Transamazon Highway, which is little more than a red-dirt track in this part of the rainforest.
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Elizbar Mestumrishvili, 75, a farmer who lives next to Mr. Tatiashvili's now-marooned house, can still get to his home, as it lies on the Georgian side of the new dirt track.
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He tells Sal to look out at the sky and see the "same moon you see above London"; gazing upon the Hawkesbury, he imagines that a dirt track is Borough High Street.
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On the other side of a dirt track, another elephant carcass lies under an acacia tree The drought is one of the main arguments put forward for selling elephants to China by Zimparks.
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Behind a disused factory on the outskirts of the Serbian city of Subotica, a dirt track leads past train tracks and into the woods, opening out onto newly sown fields and dense trees.
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When that didn't work out, Palin shifted her view outside of just Alaska and jaunted across America for a tour of our country's most treasured past-times: shooting stuff and dirt track car races.
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Some 25 horses have died at the California course, and many wonder if the unusually heavy rainfall caused problems on the dirt track this season, though the death toll is lower than in recent years.
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To reach their command center in the city's southwest, Iraqi forces took a meandering, bumpy dirt track through neighborhoods full of collapsed homes, shrapnel-ridden shop fronts and swimming-pool-size craters left by airstrikes.
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The Stronach Group told the outlet it's looking into replacing the main dirt track with a new, synthetic one during the down-time as a way to increase the safety of the horses and riders.
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Formal employment is hard to find in the township, a clutch of small government homes and metal shacks at the end of a dirt track, and many men have begun diving for abalone, residents said.
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In the new movie Trading Paint, Travolta, 63, stars as a dirt track racing legend who is down on his luck and reluctantly drawn back into the sport when his son joins a competitor's racing team.
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My personal favorite, Useless Loop Road, is a dirt track out on a peninsula near Shark Bay (guess what's in the bay) in Western Australia; it gets to the water eventually, but is, well, useless, really.
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AL HOCEIMA, Morocco — The house, down a dusty dirt track in a small village near the city of Al Hoceima in northern Morocco, looked dreary outside, with its unpainted facade, but inside the mood was cheery.
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After a couple of hours, just before the town of Concordia, I headed west, down a dirt track flanked by corn and soybean fields, winding through darkness until my lights settled on a large steel gate.
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But motor sports was his passion and he methodically worked his way through various forms of racing, starting on the dirt track circuit, before eventually making his debut in the top level of NASCAR in 2001.
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The Jockey Club says the incidence of fatal accidents increases on dirt tracks, and most of Santa Anita's problems have centered on its 1-mile dirt track, though there have also been deaths on its turf track.
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Nearly 12 inches of rain have fallen since the meeting began, which has made maintaining a dirt track difficult, especially when "sealing" a track, or packing the dirt tight enough so that no water penetrates its surface.
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A dirt track that meanders from the coast road into the desert, normally humming with trucks, was empty when we drove on it: a smugglers' gap in the wall had been closed three days earlier, outraging locals.
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But given its remote location—47 dirt-track miles from the village of Camarones and 101 miles from Provincial capital Rason—"El Cabo" fell into a state of permanent ruin when its last resident died in 1987.
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At $500,000, Mercedes' Maybach G650 Landaulet costs twice as much as Bentley's Bentayga and $100,000 more than Rolls-Royce's forthcoming and as-yet untitled model which is hitting a dirt track - or the school run - near you next year.
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Bacrania was at "Border Wars," an annual event where participants steer miniature sports cars and trucks around a dirt track at speeds up to 40 miles per hour with all the focus and intensity of actual race car drivers.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A frantic 40-second ride on a bumpy, dirt track decided the gold medal in the BMX final at the London Olympics but left Australia's Caroline Buchanan with four years to stew over a chance gone begging.
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Starting next to each other on the far outside of the dirt track were Irad and Jose Ortiz, two Puerto Rican jockeys, age twenty-five and twenty-four, whose rides have been electrifying New York's racetracks in recent years.
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Much of the drive to the site of the event, in Yuendumu, from their home in Lajamanu, Northern Territory, was a straight shot along the infamous and empty Tanami Road, a bone-rattling dirt track that stretches 650 miles.
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Pupils at Shimundo secondary school, where Zita teaches, can send the most intimate questions that they can't get answers to in the dirt-track villages surrounding Xai-Xai, a provincial capital whose grand avenues speak of a former glory.
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Belleville High Banks is a ½-mile dirt track with more than a century of racing tradition, that has included victories in the Nationals event by such stars as Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell and Rico Abreu.
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Omar, a refugee from Ethiopia's Oromo ethnic group, was discovered less than two years ago by a charity run by Kenyan former marathon runner Tegla Chepkite Loroupe, running on a dirt track in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.
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He told me how his home had always been on the road we were sitting on — how it originated as a dirt track to become a grand boulevard, from housing bordellos and advertising agencies to office blocks and designer apartments.
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Yet each day, in the morning and afternoon, dozens of young men and women power up the slopes outside of town, stride across a flat training field, and sprint around a dirt track with homemade bleachers dug out of the hill.
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Let's Light the Way was the ninth horse to die after a training injury on the main track, while 12 have died while racing (five on the turf and seven on the dirt track) since December 26, the LA Times reported.
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Up on the hill, where rescuers are seeking alternative routes down into the cave, another accident occurred on Saturday night: a vehicle skidded off a dirt track, seriously injuring the driver and a passenger and harming four other volunteers, authorities said.
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Behind the front lines with rebels in South Sudan Behind the front lines with rebels in South Sudan Photos by Jason Patinkin KAJO KEJI, South Sudan — Two Toyota pickup trucks filled with heavily armed rebels rattled down a bumpy dirt track.
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Taking turns with a pick-axe, two other guerrillas hack at the ground until the hole they are making on the edge of a dirt track is large enough to fit two explosive charges that will detonate when Islamic State drives past.
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CreditCreditRauff Hakeem, via Storyful MEDAMAHANUWARA, Sri Lanka — Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 20173 members of an extended family were glued to Facebook.
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As Johnson related it, one day in 1947 he was standing barefoot behind a plow mule on the family farm in Ingle Hollow, a section of Ronda, when he was told about an auto race on a dirt track at nearby North Wilkesboro.
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WORSTED LODGE, England — After hours of searching, I pulled onto a dirt track here in the rolling hills of Cambridgeshire and spotted a small dot whirring across the blue sky, gently swaying in the breeze as it steadily flew about 200 feet above the ground.
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Early the next morning, after driving a two-lane road that turned to a red dirt track after 7153 minutes, we parked and set out near an ancestral platform called Ahu Te Peu, its fine stonework marking the site of a once-thriving community.
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After a couple of low-speed human-controlled practice laps on a dirt track to familiarize the truck's AI with the simple course, the vehicle was left to navigate it all on its own, while trying to maintain a constant speed of around 18 miles per hour.
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Nestled a few miles away from the fishbowls and flip-flops of San Antonio—a place which, like Great Yarmouth or Blackpool, when enjoyed on its own terms is incredibly fun—and up a dusty dirt-track is one of of Europe's most absurdly decadent, hedonistic spaces.
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MANCHESTER, England — In a dank, disused railway station, TV news clips were playing on a huge screen: a pig farm in Arizona; young men in Islamic dress on a street in Iran, their white robes streaked with blood; a car rally on a dirt track somewhere.
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Los Alamitos in Orange County, which has only a dirt track, had 22 deaths in 228,214 starts (21 deaths per 2100,903 starts) and Golden Gate Fields in Albany, which has only turf and synthetic tracks, recorded 290 deaths in 90,21754 starts (3.1 per 1,000), the racing board says.
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SANA'A, Yemen – A scattered array of soldiers, their weather-worn faces signaling the toll of war, make their way along a narrow, winding dirt track across the serrated terrain of Nihm Mountain to hunt enemy hideouts, just 13 miles east of the Houthi-controlled center of Sana'a city.
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But while dismissed by most of the world as a make-believe border, the dirt track now running through this tiny Georgian village nonetheless means that Vephivia Tatiashvili can no longer go to his three-story house because it sits on land now patrolled by Russian border guards.
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In a dark green house with plastic siding at the end of a long, rutted dirt track, Rangel Ipuana - a pütchipü'ü who is the patriarch of the Ipuana clan - says he wants to avoid conflict, but many of the returnees from Venezuela have forgotten the Wayuu way of life.
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Whether it's comprised of a blend of sand, clay, and silt (as is the case for the "dirt" track at Santa Anita) or wax-coated synthetic material or turf, bad footing can result in catastrophic injury that ends a horse's career or even requires it to be put down.
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While waiting for the stock car race to begin, Dr. Jackson laughed when a hunk of mud spun up from the dirt track and landed in his coffee cup, a fitting end to another long day on the campaign trail where it wasn't clear if he'd made any progress.
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He takes the reader down dirt-track roads, on the back of motorbikes or in a shaky bus on which his neighbour vomits up his curry; into rat-infested cinemas in Yangon; and around dilapidated colonial buildings and the bombastic military museums of Naypyidaw (the soulless capital built by the armed forces in 2005).
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PETA called for a shutdown of the track and its senior vice president, Kathy Guillermo, suggested Santa Anita replace the dirt track with a safer synthetic surface, put in place imaging technology capable of detecting pre-existing conditions in horses' legs and allow the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office to finish investigating the death before the track reopens.
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PETA echoed the call for a shutdown, with its senior vice president, Kathy Guillermo, saying Santa Anita should not reopen until it replaces the dirt track with a safer synthetic surface, puts in place imaging technology capable of detecting pre-existing conditions in horses' legs, and allows the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office to finish its investigation into the deaths.
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From Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regulars such as Ryan Newman and Ty Dillon to the Camping World Truck Series 220 championship contenders such as Johnny Sauter (the current points leader), veteran Matt Crafton and weekly contender Stewart Friesen; from young stars like Todd Gilliland and Myatt Snider to the debut of young dirt track stars such as Logan Seavey, 242, Braden Mitchell, 19, and Tyler Dippel, 18 — driver introductions in Wednesday night's Eldora Dirt Derby (9 p.m.
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