check the clock the formula race has just ended with victory for the series to vettel though as you local petrolhead i backed alonso who came second i did the edit with metaphorical petrol fumes fogging my poacher's game and spokes and gears of frustration and disappointment streaming from my aged boat guv so you may need to check the best dictionaries give 'race' so one has to retain it in any case it was coined as a term by haeckel when race discourse was emerging you can't actually put and as if the two related words had a double denomination one of which is 'race' esp in the modern sense which the greeks lacked can also mean a 'class' as in 'the class of women' or 'the class species of flies' a more prosaic term refers to an organized institutional body of men united by belief in common blood or descent even 'tribe' is deceptive in its english rendering since that connotes a distinct anthropological culture whereas athenians though all sharing the one culture and language were divided into phylai etc