Word: prix
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...their rears." Yet as the week ended, the restaurateurs were planning their next steps. Michael and Terry McNally of the London Grill are planning an Oct. 22 dinner in honor of Hudson Valley Foie Gras co-founder Michael Ginor and his book Foie Gras: A Passion. For a $165 prix fixe, the six-course dinner will include foie gras in every course, from the matzo ball soup to a creme brulee dessert...
Like the city in which it is held, the Macau Grand Prix has long been biding its time. For years, it trundled along in the bottom tier of race-car meetings as a sort of amateur's Monaco, the field dominated by weekend drivers and their hobby cars. These days, however, it is bigger, louder and definitely on the world map - fueled in large measure by the growth of Macau itself...
...From Nov. 15-18, a 900-strong media corps and some 260 competitors will swarm upon China's gaming capital for the 54th Macau Grand Prix. The organizers would probably have to buy solar panels for half of Mongolia to offset the emissions of this orgy of gas-guzzling, but why muse on such deflating topics when there are eight fierce races to behold? This is the only street meet in the world that features both car races (including a Formula Three race and a World Touring Car Championship) as well as motorcycle events (among them the Macau Motorcycle Grand...
...grid, minutes before the start of a British Grand Prix in August, the drivers' faces are grim with concentration. The pre-race interviews are over, and the glamour models in hotpants are tottering off the circuit. Fans are screaming from a packed grandstand. Squeezed into his driving seat, wearing a red, white and yellow jumpsuit and white helmet, Trevyn-Jay Nelson is pulling on a pair of tight black gloves. No question where he's expecting to finish: "First," he says before flicking down his gold visor. At the start signal, with a burst of engine noise, the drivers dart...
...chasing karts off the track and earn a disqualification. "The next three to four years," says Hines, looking on at the bust-up, "are about getting that out of him." For Rowland's fellow Young Gun Nelson, these are still early days. He trailed home 13th in his Grand Prix final, but as an 8-year-old competing with drivers four years his senior, did well even to make the cut. "Lewis was this good at 8," Hines remembers, likening Nelson to Hamilton. "In four years' time," Hines says, runners-up will be "sick of his face." And that...