The absence of practice sessions makes the hour-and-a-half race-morning course inspection all the more crucial.
At one point a railway station, at another a race course, the theatre becomes an all-encompassing world intended to reflect the characters' obsession with etiquette, decorum and manners.
The event is held every Memorial Day weekend in Ferndale, California, as artists race their bizarre wares across a 42-mile course over three days, including sections on land, sand, mud and water.
In one noteworthy instance, one document requires a 500-foot distance between spectators and the race course, while another requires 1, 000 feet.
Of course such policy is a catalyst of the arms race - the new domination, of the factor of force is nourishing the thrust of countries to get weapons of mass destruction.
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"It does seem sort of counter-intuitive, " said Dr. Proudman, who is also a race course adviser at Aintree.
After racing on a tight, 2.36-mile street course, IndyCar's next race is on an oval at Texas Motor Speedway.
Previously called the Course de l'Aurore, it is a single-handed race which has attracted solo rowers since it started in 1970.
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Italian-born Dettori failed the doping control after a meeting at the famous Longchamps race course in Paris on September 16.
The Boat Race is unique because it takes place over a course that not only twists and turns - unlike the 2, 000m Olympic course - but does so on tidal water, where the pace of the stream varies, and conditions are never the same from one day to the next.
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Last year, as temperatures climbed into the upper-80s dangerously high for a distance race people who lived along the course bought ice and water to give runners.
Allmendinger, and the rest of the drivers who didn't win, will have a chance to bounce back in Sunday's race on the 2.36-mile Belle Isle street course that held up much better than it did last year.
The race was to pit employee teams from at least 12 corporations over a 100-mile, two-day course.
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