Sentences with phrase «as in the race cars»

It is a long way from being a sports car, but it holds the line a driver sets for it as though pressed down by aerodynamics, as in a racing car rather than just by its own weight.

As in the race cars, the rear spoiler can be varied manually in order to let the driver optimize the car's performance according to the track or road characteristics.

Not exact matches

Speaking of Google, two months ago the company announced its bid to get in on the car - as - rolling - smartphone race, saying it aims to complete its Android - vehicle integration system by the close of 2014.

Other Chinese companies, such as Alibaba, Baidu, and DJI, are racing ahead in ecommerce and logistics; artificial intelligence and self - driving cars; and drone technologies.

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

The angular - looking concept version called Urus, unveiled for the first time in Beijing in 2012, had the same built - for - playboys appearance as Lamborghini's cars: sharp lines, wide rims, race - car aesthetics.

Starting in 2005, GoDaddy ran a series of racy Super Bowl commercials featuring women such as race car driver Danica Patrick and supermodel Bar Rafaeli — usually in some state of undress.

This is likely what is shown in the teaser video that Faraday Future released for the then - unknown electric vehicle in mid-December, as the car was shown beating the Tesla Model S P100D in a drag race.

In some ways, Uber's headlong rush into the self - driving car race echoes Icarus, whose waxen wings melted as he soared toward the sun.

After a race to the wire, the Toyota Camry beat the Honda Accord for the title of the nation's best - selling car in 1997, leaving the Ford Taurus in third place and ending its five - year reign as the top seller.

And in what could emerge as a self - driving - car arms race, the players are investing in, or partnering with, or buying outright the specialty companies most focused on the requisite hardware, software and artificial intelligence capabilities.

For example, companies have already begun implementing in medical devices, mobile devices, and even cars as the race to create a self - driving vehicle continues.

His legacy as one of the world's greatest race car drivers in history lives on in a film directed by Asif Kapadia.

As mentioned in Chapter 5, the drinking alcoholic becomes increasingly like a car with the engine racing but the clutch disengaged.

The revised livery comes as a result of a sponsorship agreement with Austrian water technology company BWT, making it the first pink car in F1 since the 1992 Brabham BT60B as raced by Damon Hill.

The Mucke Motorsport team has raced with pink cars in the DTM for the last couple of years thanks to their association with the same sponsor, and this year will see the pink BWT - liveries expand into the German Formula 4 and GT championships as well.

Senna didn't really want to drive for McLaren in 1993 as he didn't think the car (with its underpowered Ford engine) was worthy of his talents, and instead of signing a contract for the whole year famously drove for the team on a race - by - race basis.

Even making it through wasn't a guarantee of starting the race, as with 30 cars in qualifying and only 26 spots on the grid there was still a pretty good chance of failing to qualify!

Stick around to watch them race at night for a bit as seeing LMP1 cars blast past GTs in darkness is something you really have to see to believe.

In the race he even led for a few laps, but come the end had slipped to eighth as faster cars moved up the order.

Amazingly Pareja was OK, but it shows just what damage a drain cover can do to a race car if it hits it in the wrong way (as if there's a right way to hit one!).

Raikkonen pipped the troubled McLaren drivers by a single point, and with Felipe Massa in the other car winning three races Ferrari won the Constructors» as well.

If it really is as close as Renault suspect, we could see teams that are comfortably finishing with both cars in the points at one race struggling to get out of Q1 at the next.

Eric Boullier seems to be thinking along the same lines and has said that as long as the car is good, he expects the team to be in the top three and win at least one race in 2018.

If it came out in the middle of the race the cars would stop, as you'd expect, but when the race got underway again behind the safety car, it was almost like a completely different race.

Vettel was sure that he was brake tested by Hamilton as they were preparing for the restart, and in a fit of mild race pulled alongside the Mercedes driver and gave booped his car into Hamilton's.

«Above all, Le Mans is an engine breaker,» Wyer said in his office 10 days before the race, as outside in the workshop mechanics were reassembling the three squat five - liter GT40s that would be racing in France, a third car having been added for the 24 Hours.

By race time, Porsche, with the four three - liter, 320 - horsepower cars, and nine other privately owned 2.2 - and two - liter starters, was heavily favored and the race began for them just as the season had in Florida.

But what really makes Busch so formidable on flat tracks such as New Hampshire (those with little or no banking in the corners) is that he can control a loose race car (meaning the rear end slides up the track through the corners) as expertly as anyone in the sport.

As for creating a rotary engine for use in such ultra-exotic races as Indianapolis or Formula I, Rudolph Uhlenhaut, the now - retired chief engineer of the firm, is said to have told insiders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Establishment that perhaps three years and $ 5 million would be necessary to develop a winning rotary - engine car for the annual 500 - mile racAs for creating a rotary engine for use in such ultra-exotic races as Indianapolis or Formula I, Rudolph Uhlenhaut, the now - retired chief engineer of the firm, is said to have told insiders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Establishment that perhaps three years and $ 5 million would be necessary to develop a winning rotary - engine car for the annual 500 - mile racas Indianapolis or Formula I, Rudolph Uhlenhaut, the now - retired chief engineer of the firm, is said to have told insiders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Establishment that perhaps three years and $ 5 million would be necessary to develop a winning rotary - engine car for the annual 500 - mile race.

Busch and Keselowski emerged as the dominant cars in the final third of the 500 - lap race, exchanging the lead multiple times between themselves.

Once long and lean and fiery, now thicker, quieter, deliberate in movement, Jones may be the most remarkable active sportsman in the U.S. Forty - seven years after he drove (and won) the first heat he ever entered, 34 years after he pulled his dying brother from a race car in Valdosta, Ga., Jones remains as competitive and skilled as rivals one third his age.

He later went on to race in the British Touring Car Championship and sports car championships, as well as Grand Prix MasteCar Championship and sports car championships, as well as Grand Prix Mastecar championships, as well as Grand Prix Masters.

From being fastest by 11 seconds in a wet practice session, to driving his car flat out with three wheels, to managing to win races with an absolute dog of a car (and so much more), Gilles cemented his place as an all - time great.

Apart from there obviously being more races this year, having two extra cars on the grid (Haas) no doubt helped, as did the number of times fast cars were out of position on the grid due to mechanical issues, penalties, or weather conditions in qualifying.

As the chequered flag fell, all five cars crossed the line just 1.24 seconds apart making it the second closest race in F1 history.

The car had suffered a wheel problem early in the race, losing time, but just as it was being lapped in a heavy braking zone it suffered a brake issue.

But as NASCAR does with all race - winning vehicles, it brought the car back to its Research and Development Center in Concord, N.C., for closer scrutiny.

In qualifying for the 1990 race his car had a mechanical issue which caused his car to push out too much power - as if there is such a thing.

Most weeks, as many as 200 drivers turn up in 200 gleaming cars, and they race 400 or 600 or 800 times till they've shaken themselves into hierarchies of velocity and control.

The awesome McLaren MP4 / 4 will be available as part of a new DLC pack, dubbed the eBay Motors car pack, the car that Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost took to 15 wins and 15 pole positions in the 16 - race 1988 Formula One season.

Driven by a plethora of Italian F1 stars such as Michele Alboreto, Alessandro Nannini, Ricardo Patrese and Teo Fabi, the Ferrari - powered cars took pole positions here, there and everywhere in the WSC, but were just too fragile to get to the end of the race.

Fighting for the lead in Race 1 with Albon, I went for a move and as he tried to hang on to the position his car went airborne over a kerb, and nearly landed on me.

As you might expect in a race like this it was Prost who crossed the line to win, but after the race his car was found to be underweight and he was disqualified, handing Elio de Angelis the second and final victory of his career.

The accident was triggered by a parts failure on Logano's car, which turned him into Patrick as the two raced into Turn 1 at speeds in the neighborhood of 210 mph.

The Aston Martin Vantage GTE has been racing in the WEC since 2012, but after this season it's finally being pensioned off as a new version of the car replaces it in GTE - Pro in 2018 (although it will continue to compete in GTE - AM).

Reigning WEC champion and former Red Bull «number 2 driver» Mark Webber drove his Porsche 919 Hybrid as part of the launch of the new Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid in an effort to demonstrate how technology from motor racing can transfer to road cars.

In 1961 he tried the Indy 500 and whilst his Cooper wasn't the first rear - engined car to race there, it had a similar effect as it had in FIn 1961 he tried the Indy 500 and whilst his Cooper wasn't the first rear - engined car to race there, it had a similar effect as it had in Fin F1.

For much of the F2 feature race in Jerez it looked as though Leclerc was cruising to the title, but a late safety car changed everything

As well the WEC and Le Mans, the M8 GTE will also go racing stateside in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, and that's where the car will make its race debut when it tackles the Daytona 24 Hours in January.