Event class: grand prix, season, race, finished, championship, stage, team, win, second, tour

Events with high posterior probability

Romain Grosjean	2013 He had three points-scoring finishes at the three opening races before receiving a new chassis to help his chances at Bahrain ; he qualified 11th and climbed to third.
Sebastian Vettel	Toro Rosso STR2 at the -LSB- -LSB- 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix -RSB- -RSB- Vettel struggled for his first couple of races while cutting his teeth with his new team, but managed two impressive drives in his 5th and 6th drives for Toro Rosso, a team that was averaging a little worse than 14th place in the 2007 season before Vettel's arrival.
Sean Yates	The following year (1989), he took two stages and overall victory in the Tour of Belgium, won the GP Eddy Merckx and finished second in Gent -- Wevelgem.
Cadel Evans	Evans had a much more successful start to 2011, winning stage 4 and the general classification at the Tirreno -- Adriatico, and the general classification at the Tour de Romandie, both of which form part of the 2011 UCI World Tour.
Cadel Evans	He finished the Tour in seventh position, 15 minutes and 49 seconds down on winner Bradley Wiggins and stated that he would be back as BMC's leader in 2013.
David Zabriskie	Despite success on the international cycling scene, Zabriskie did not receive much attention in his native United States until the 2005 Tour de France, when he won the stage 1 time trial -- making him the first American to win stages in all three Grand Tours.
Nicolas Roche	After winning the Irish National Road Race Championship for the first time in June 2009, it was announced that Roche had been selected by Ag2r to ride his first Tour de France the following month.
Michael Wright (cyclist)	Wright rode the Tour de France eight times, finishing 24th in 1965 and winning three stages.
Giedo van der Garde	At the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix, van der Garde achieved Caterham's highest ever qualifying place with a P15, this was also the first time that a Caterham made it to Q2 in the 2013 season.
Rui Costa (cyclist)	Costa won the elite men's race at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships in Tuscany, Italy, becoming the first Portuguese rider to wear the rainbow jersey.
Rik Van Looy	However, he made up for this in 1961, winning both Paris -- Roubaix and Liège -- Bastogne -- Liège -- making him the first rider to take all five' Monuments' -- as well as retaining his rainbow world title jersey, and taking three stages, plus the mountains competition, in the Giro.
Alex de Angelis	His best season in the 125 class came in 2003 when he claimed six podium finishes and finished second to Dani Pedrosa, despite not recording any wins.
Fr?nk Schleck	He finished all three races behind Paolo Bettini (2004 Olympic Road Race winner) and Gilberto Simoni (two times Giro d'Italia winner), losing Züri-Metzgete to Bettini, the Giro dell'Em ilia to Simoni, and finishing third behind both in the Giro di Lombardia.
H?lio Castroneves	Castroneves immediately became a regular front-runner winning the Indianapolis 500 in 2001, the first of three wins where he again performed the crowd pleasing act of climbing the fence at the start finish line in celebration, something he would continue to do after winning races.
Arthur Sissis	He again rode in the championship in 2011, scoring three wins (Jerez race 2, Assen race 2 and Mugello race 1) and finished 2nd in the championship, only 9 points behind Italian Lorenzo Baldassarri.
Matthew Wilson	Other events in 2005 included winning the Malcolm Wilson Rally, the McRae Stages Rally (a round of the Scottish Rally Championship) and the inaugural Rally Ireland, where he competed with current co-driver Michael Orr for the first time.
Maximiliano Richeze	In the 2007 Giro d'Italia Richeze placed 3rd on Stage 3 and 2nd on Stage 18 and 21, all of which were won by Alessandro Petacchi.
Sebastian Vettel	At the, Vettel took his fourteenth pole position of 2011 to equal the record of poles in a season set by Nigel Mansell in.
Jo de Roo	De Roo caught the eye in 1957 as a 20-year-old amateur when he took two stages in the Olympia's Tour as well as winning the Omloop van de Kempen.
Maurizio Fondriest	He subsequently rode for Alfa-Lum in 1988, winning the World Cycling Championships along with stages in the Tour de Suisse and Tirreno -- Adriatico.
Mikhail Ignatiev (cyclist)	In his first season he achieved some greatest results having taken two podiums at 2009 Tour de France.
Martin Brundle	In 1996 he teamed up with Rubens Barrichello at Jordan and enjoyed a good season, despite a slow start and a spectacular crash at Melbourne's inaugural GP, with regular points, fourth his best result.
Federico Bahamontes	He said : A year later, in the 1964 Tour de France Anquetil took his fifth victory and the margin over Bahamontes in third was 4:44 ; Raymond Poulidor took second place.
Riccardo Patrese	In 1982 Patrese moved to Brabham and gained a lucky win at that year's Monaco Grand Prix when there were five leaders.
Chris Neath	In 2008 having been a ten year asset of the Wolverhampton Wolves Neath was awarded a testimonial meeting held at the Rye House Speedway, where he finished in third place behind Speedway Grand Prix rider Fredrik Lindgren and British Under-21 Champion Tai Woffinden.
Kurt Asle Arvesen	On July 16 he won stage 11 in the 2008 Tour de France, his first ever stage win in the tour.
Joris Hendrickx	The team was able to complete the 2012 season without injury and finished fourth in the world championship, 83 points behind Daniël Willemsen who won his tenth title.
Robert Millar	Millar won the'' King of the Mountains'' competition in the 1984 Tour de France and finished fourth overall.
Alister McRae	McRae also added to his tally of World championship appearances in the new Toyota Corolla S2000 at the 2006 Wales Rally GB, racking up four Group N stage wins.
Michael Rasmussen	His first Tour de France was in 2004, in which he failed to get any stage wins but was third in the mountain classification, which was won by Richard Virenque.
Marco Simoncelli	2011 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix | 2011 Malaysian Grand Prix, his incomplete final race.
Albert Divo	He scored his first major victory driving for Sunbeam at the 1923 Spanish Grand Prix at the Sitges Terramar circuit about 40 km outside Barcelona.
Daryl Beattie	He had his best year in 1995 with the Suzuki factory team, leading the championship for the first part of the season before his crash at Assen allowed Doohan to win the championship with Beattie finishing in second, 33 points behind Doohan.
S?bastien Tortelli	The title fight went down to the final round, last race of the Greece GP, and it was Tortelli who shouldered the pressure, won the race and claimed the 1998 250cc World Championship.
Kevin Magee (motorcycle racer)	Having teamed up with Martin Wimmer to win the 1987 Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race, and having also won the 1987 round of the now-defunct Formula 1 motorcycle championship at Sugo, he became the only rider to stand on the podium of three different World Championships in a calendar year.
Floyd Landis	In the 2005 Tour de France, Landis finished ninth overall in the General classification, his highest finish in the tour at that time.
Matthew Goss	He confirmed his qualities later in 2009 by winning Paris -- Brussels, two stages of the Tour de Wallonie and finishing third at Gent -- Wevelgem.
Levi Leipheimer	His breakthrough came in the 2001 Vuelta a España, his first Grand Tour, in which he was riding in support of team leader Roberto Heras.
Gerhard Berger	Berger was also the only non-McLaren to take pole in 1988 when he sat on pole for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Ryder Hesjedal	He performed well in the 2011 Tour de France though he did not finish as well as his 6th placing of the previous year.
Geraint Thomas	2007 Tour de France Thomas was the youngest rider in the 2007 Tour de France as Team Barloworld picked up one of the three wildcard spots allocated for the race.
Gary Hunt	His impressive start to the season meant he was in 2nd place in the overall championship at the halfway stage, 18 points behind 9-time World Champion Orlando Duque who had been dominating the 2009 season once again.
Jorge Recalde	He was the only Argentine to have won the Rally Argentina, doing so in a Lancia Delta Integrale in 1988, also becoming the only Argentine to win a World Rally Championship round.
Rigoberto Ur?n	During the 2012 Volta a Catalunya, Uran claimed his first win for Sky on Stage 4 after winning a sprint from a 6 man breakaway which narrowly held off the chasing pack.
Timo Gottschalk	Gottschalk then teamed up with Nasser Al-Attiyah for the 2010 event, the pair winning four stages together en route to finishing runners-up to Volkswagen teammates Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz, just over two minutes down on the winning time.
Miguel Indurain	In 1986, Indurain again rode the Tour, dropping out on the 12th stage.
Henk Lubberding	He won two more stages in the Tour de France and wore the maillot jaune in 1988.
Philippe Thys	In 1914, he took his first stage victory, to Le Havre, holding the race from start to finish despite a 30-minute penalty for an unauthorised wheel change on the penultimate stage.
Fabian Cancellara	In the first races of the 2012 season, Cancellara showed a good form : he powered to a second victory on the gravel roads of the Strade Bianche and took a victory in the closing time trial of the Tirreno -- Adriatico.
?scar Pereiro	Pereiro placed tenth in the 2004 Tour de France, 22 minutes 54 seconds behind original winner Lance Armstrong, who was subsequently disqualified.
S?bastien Loeb	This ended his record win streak in Germany and was the first time that he had lost in a tarmac-based event since the 2006 Monte Carlo Rally.
Hiroshi Aoyama	The 2009 season went well as he scored 4 wins, 3 second places and finished every other race in the points.
Simon Crafar	In 2002 he raced in British Superbike for the Virgin Mobile Yamaha team, coming 8th overall with two 3rd place finishes.
Marcel Kittel	| birth_place Arnstadt, Germany | height | weight Born in Arnstadt, Kittel made his Tour de France debut in 2012 when he was selected as leader of his team for the 2012 Tour de France, where he would compete for stage wins and the green jersey.
Jacques Laffite	In 1986 he scored 14 points including two more podium finishes in the first half of the season, but he broke both legs in a crash at the start of the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch, and thereafter retired from Formula One.
Renzo Pasolini	In 1962, he debuted with the Aermacchi 175cc, when his two first-place finishes ahead of Giacomo Agostini spurred their long rivalry.
Lewis Hamilton	McLaren at the -LSB- -LSB- 2010 Malaysian Grand Prix, where he finished in sixth position, having started 20th. -RSB- -RSB-
Baconin Borzacchini	However, Borzacchini and his Maserati claimed victory at the 1930 Tripoli Grand Prix and won another hillclimbing event, the Pontedecimo-Giovi at Genoa.
Lars Boom	In 2009 Boom won the Tour of Belgium after a strong performance uphill, and in the final Time Trial.
Kurt Asle Arvesen	In the 2007 Giro d'Italia Arvesen won stage 8 after beating Paolo Bettini in the finish.
Robert Millar	Alpe d'Huez on stage 17 of the -LSB- -LSB- 1991 Tour de France, riding in his third and final season for. -RSB- -RSB-
Tejay van Garderen	His strong showing in the 2011 Tour of California also earned him the best young rider jersey.
Alejandro Valverde	He followed the Tour with a strong victory in 2008 Clásica de San Sebastián, leading out the sprint and holding off Aleksandr Kolobnev and Davide Rebellin.
Dani?l Willemsen	In 2007, he took part in the Dakar Rally, finishing tenth in the solo motorcycle class.
Nicki Pedersen	He showed potential in the opening round in 2001, finishing third in Germany.
Andr? Greipel	In 2011, after moving to, he had his first Tour de France victory on stage 10, inching out his biggest rival and former teammate Mark Cavendish.
Darren Hossack	2010 saw a return to the title claiming his second Australian Championship in Superkarts after win in the final race of the series broke a tie with Warren McIlveen whose previously points leading Superkart limped to the line in third position.
Mark Larkham	Larkham did however claim Formula Brabham's first international event, the 1993 Indonesian Grand Prix.
Robert Gesink	In his 2nd year as professional, in 2008, he showed progression by winning the hardest stage in the Tour of California, where Gesink rode away on the final climb, with only Levi Leipheimer holding his wheel.
Yuki Takahashi	2008 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix | 2008 Japanese Grand Prix, riding a -LSB- -LSB- Honda. -RSB- -RSB-
Jeroen Blijlevens	In 1997, he finished second to Erik Zabel in the sixth stage of the Tour de France, but when the jury disqualified Zabel for irregular sprinting, the victory was given to Blijlevens.
Ron Haslam	In 1993 he managed to score two points in the 500cc British Grand Prix in which took part as a wild card, with a 14th place finish, surviving an incident-packed race.
Bobby Julich	The 1999 Tour de France saw Julich as one of the favorites for the overall win, but a crash during an individual time trial forced him to quit the race, which was in turn won by the recovered Lance Armstrong.
Nicole Cooke	In 2003 Cooke won La Flèche Wallonne Féminine, the Amstel Gold, the GP de Plouay and the GP San Francisco.
Ian Hutchinson (motorcycle racer)	Hutchinson suffered a disappointing 2009 North West 200 Races, with two sixth places being his best results.
Andr? Greipel	At the Tour de France, Greipel and his teammates had high hopes for stage victories.
Ivan Basso	In the 2002 edition of the Tour de France, Basso finished 11th overall and won the white jersey, the award presented to the best-placed rider in the general classification under the age of 25.
Jeff Smith (motorcyclist)	After he retired from competition, he helped develop off-road bikes for Can-Am motorcycles that went on to claim the first three places in the 1974 AMA 250cc motocross national championship.
Alessandro Santin	His better results were two sixth places in Silverstone and Vallelunga in 1986, driving a Lola T86/50.
Luke Rowe	He took his first professional victory in September 2012 by winning the opening stage of the Tour of Britain.
Kazuki Nakajima	He had a successful start to 2008 at the Australian Grand Prix, finishing seventh but promoted to sixth after Rubens Barrichello was disqualified, even whilst knocking Robert Kubica out of the race and being penalised.
Anuar Manan	Anuar Manan started his career with LeTua Cycling Team and showed his natural talent as a sprinter when he won two stages of the 2007 Jelajah Malaysia and the blue jersey.
Seamus Elliott	In 1962 Elliott came third in the 1962 Vuelta a España, winning the fourth stage and coming second in the points classification.
Jacques Boyer	Boyer rode the Tour de France five times and finished 12th in 1983 (French Jean de Gribaldy Sem team with Sean Kelly).
Ben Swift	Although he failed to gain selection from the long list for the British Olympic team, he was picked for the Team Sky squad for the Tour of Poland, winning the second and fifth stages, as well as wearing that Tour's red-and-white points classification jersey Swift was selected as Sky's sprinter at the 2012 Vuelta a España, and finished second on Stage 18.
?lvaro Bautista	He took his first 250cc victory at the 2007 Italian Grand Prix at Mugello on June 3, also claiming his maiden 250cc pole position that weekend.
Thomas Voeckler	In 2003, Voeckler captured two stages and the overall title in the Tour de Luxembourg.
David Zabriskie	In 2005, he could have become the second or third American to wear the leader's jersey at the Tour de France, after three-time Tour winner Greg LeMond.
Mark Webber	Malaysia, but finished behind team-mate -LSB- -LSB- Sebastian Vettel pole position in Malaysia, but finished behind team-mate -LSB- -LSB- Sebastian Vettel in second position. -RSB- -RSB-
Garry McCoy	He won the 1995 Malaysian Grand Prix and the Australian Grand Prix as well as 7 other top-3 finishes and one pole position.
Anton Mang	His first Grand Prix victory came at the 1976 German Grand Prix at the 22.
Tomoyoshi Koyama	He ends the 2008 season with 7th at Valencia and 17th in the final standings, four places behind the most successful KTM rider (Marc Márquez) in an unsuccessful year for the Austrian concern.
Sebastian Vettel	Michael Schumacher both competed in the -LSB- -LSB- 2011 Japanese Grand Prix, where Vettel won his second world championship title. -RSB- -RSB-
Adrian Sutil	Spyker F1 | Spyker at the -LSB- -LSB- 2007 Belgian Grand Prix -RSB- -RSB- At the Belgian Grand Prix, the strengths of the B-spec car were fully evident with both Sutil and Yamamoto setting competitive times through the three practice sessions culminating in Sutil qualifying only half a second behind 16th placed man Vitantonio Liuzzi.
Cheri Elliott	Elliott retired from competitive racing during the 2001 Mountain Bike season, becoming a Realtor in California ; she bills herself as'' The Broker on a Bike''.
Sylv?re Maes	Maes was the leader of the Belgian team in the 1937 Tour de France.
Roman Kresta	<gallery> File : Roman Kresta - 2005 Rally Argentina.
Chris Amon	; 1976 Ensign's first race of the season was the South African GP where Amon qualified 18th and finished 14th.
Andrey Kivilev	On March 11, 2003, Kivilev was racing in the second stage of Paris -- Nice, between La Clayette and Saint-Étienne.
Lech Piasecki	His first victory as a professional cyclist was in a time trial in the 1986 Giro d'Italia, where he surprisingly beat many favourites.