This article makes it sound like qualifying would be better than the actual race.

The rules of the race are fairly similar to the actual race.

No hints had been offered as to how the students should bet the day's actual races.

His rivals looked more likely to win the actual race, though.

Plan way ahead if you want to join up to 450,000 fans at the actual race.

And, as he had so often said himself, the actual race alone would determine a winner.

The virtual counterparts are usually held the day before the actual race.

But it wasn't until late 2009 that I thought about entering an actual race.

"A longer time trial makes it too much like an actual race."

In the actual race, of course, there will be no passengers along for the ride.