Sentences with phrase «car race victories»

Vintage Car Race Victories Earned, Nitro Burned, and Memories Rekindled at Spring Classic Showcasing Nitro Revival

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I have said before that one race where I would love to see our cars visit Victory Circle is the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The American, born in New York, took victories in Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can - Am, Trans - Am Series, proving he was one of the most talented all - round racing drivers.

Lewis Hamilton has spoken out about it because during the Australian Grand Prix he had to focus more on saving the car for future races than challenging Sebastian Vettel for the victory.

NASCAR issued stiff penalties to Kevin Harvick, crew chief Rodney Childers and the No. 4 Stewart - Haas Racing team on Wednesday after officials found a violation on the car Harvick drove to victory Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

A year after the race it was revealed that Alonso's team mate Nelson Piquet Jr had deliberately crashed to cause a safety car, allowing Fernando to take an unexpected victory.

At the 2010 season finale in Abu Dhabi Alonso was in prime position to win his third title and a first with Ferrari, however an early safety car turned the race on its head and Sebastian Vettel took a comfortable victory.

The car won many races at lower levels and in Can - Am, and took its most prestigious victory at the Daytona 24 Hours in 1969.

On the last lap of the last race of the 1996 IndyCar season, Alex Zanardi launched his car down the inside at the fabled Corkscrew corner and took the lead and the victory - but not without running off the track to do so.

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.

Among the particulars of an agreement struck with Kroger, the United States» largest supermarket chain by revenue — $ 115.34 billion for fiscal year 2016 with almost 2,800 supermarkets throughout the country — Monster gets greater shelf space in return for Kroger being allowed to have signage on the race - winning car in victory lane.

«I can't wait to win another race and jump up and down in victory lane on the back of my car.»

The Porsche 919 completed a hat - trick of Le Mans victories in 2017 when Brendon Hartley, Timo Bernhard, and Earl Bamber took victory in the race which none of the hybrid cars seemed to want to finish.

Even when Bridgestone - shod cars weren't a factor this contributed to some intriguing races - like in Canada, when David Coulthard made a precautionary tyre stop that ultimately cost him victory.

Mercedes» chief race engineer Andrew Shovlin talks about how the Virtual Safety Car cost Lewis Hamilton the lead - and the victory

The chassis (No. 211) is the very one Schumacher raced to his fifth and final victory at Monaco and was also the car he raced in the Hungarian GP, when he clinched his fourth world championship.

The chassis for sale here is the FW07 / 01, the car that propelled Jones to victory at the 1979 Dutch Grand Prix, before going on to race in the British Aurora series in 1980.

In his sixth, at the Canadian Grand Prix, he took a comfortable pole position and commanded the safety car - filled race on his way to his first victory.

The 1993 Brazilian Grand Prix featured the first modern use of the safety car in a race and it played a part in helping Ayrton Senna take victory.

Race three of the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia finished in dramatic style with four cars fighting it out for victory in the final laps.

It caused a long caution period while the damaged cars were cleared, with Penske's Simon Pagenaud ending up winning the race — his first oval victory.

Since her husband, Carl, won the Republican nomination for governor of New York last week, the only story in the race as compelling as his upset victory has been their personal back story: that her husband not only had an affair, not only fathered a child with that other woman, but also told his wife of 40 years about it all the same week that their 29 - year - old son, Patrick, was killed in a car accident.

While you can skip the early, easier sections, the final three tiers can only be unlocked by winning races, and taking the shortest path to victory can leave you ill - equipped to handle the higher speeds and more rigorous demands of the best vehicles Project Cars 2 has to offer.

Although written as some sort of protagonist, Trickle does reckless, borderline criminal acts, such as intentionally crash into another driver's car when in his victory lap, drive carelessly at dangerous speeds in a city street with his would - be girlfriend pleading for her life for him to stop, and another instance where he challenges a rival driver to a high - speed race in public streets for the juvenile pursuit of winning at all costs.

Beginning with perhaps the most beautiful car ever to have raced, the Ferrari 330 P4 of 1967 (a photo of which was proudly displayed in Enzo Ferrari's office from the day it claimed total victory at Daytona), through to Ferrari's modern - day GT warrior, the 488 GT3 and via such iconic Ferraris such as the Ferrari 288 GTO of 1984 (the first supercar to hit the 300km / h barrier), the F40LM of 1989 (the GT version of the first supercar to reach 370km / h) and all the way through to Maranello's current hypercar — LaFerrari, Project CARS 2 drivers will soon revel in the cars and history that have made Ferrari the world's most aspirational car brCARS 2 drivers will soon revel in the cars and history that have made Ferrari the world's most aspirational car brcars and history that have made Ferrari the world's most aspirational car brand.

When the movie opens, McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) is once again on top of the stock - car racing world, trading victories with contemporaries such as Cal Weathers and Bobby Swift.

«In the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Audi was the first manufacturer to have achieved victories with a TFSI engine, a TDI and a hybrid race car, so writing motorsport history on several occasions,» Audi motorsport chief Wolfgang Ullrich said in a statement.

The car also won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1988, on its way to 69 total race victories.

The car was later driven to victory at the 1979 Race of Champions — also at Brands — at the hands of French - Canadian ace Gilles Villeneuve.

The two GTs being prepped to race in the WEC will receive automatic entries for Le Mans, and Ford hopes — and paddock insiders expect — the two IMSA cars get invitations as well, giving Ford four bullets aimed at a golden anniversary victory.

Senna raced chassis 6 again at the Canadian, French, British, German, Belgian and Italian GPs, and while those races were all dominated by Williams — with four victories going to Alain Prost and three to Damon Hill — after which it was relegated to the spare car.

Ferdinand Porsche's Greatest Personal Victory — As the designer of racing cars for Austro Daimler, Mercedes and Auto Union, Ferdinand Porsche would enjoy many successes in a long career.

From 1968 until 1989, it shuttled Porsche racing cars to nine overall Le Mans victories and eleven world sports car championships.

Seven years later, the man who as a boy had overcome Perthes disease to drive racing cars was fielding his very own F1 machinery, and in 1968 guided the M7A he'd designed and engineered to victory at Spa - Francorchamps.

The Jaguar Project 7's blue paintwork and white graphics were chosen because they match the livery of the 1956/1957 Jaguar D - Type racing cars; the name Project 7 references Jaguar's seven victories at Le Mans between 1951 and 1990.

It paid off: while car number 7 suffered issues during the race, Frank Biela, Emanuele Pirro and Marco Werner secured victory in car number 8, making history in the process.

And with the first race just around the corner — April 15 at Silverstone — both teams have released their 2017 race cars, detailing the differences in how both aim to achieve total victory at this year's Le Mans.

Racing «sports cars,» like the incredibly efficient (but also insuperably ugly) Prototype racers that now fight for overall victory at Le Mans, have absolutely no visual linkage to anything any of us would want to be seen driving on the road.

While the e-tron quattro will be Audi's first full - production electric vehicle, the company has built several examples in the past to learn its lessons, not to mentioned raced hybrid electric cars to overall victory at Le Mans.

TOCA Touring Cars was perfectly timed to take advantage of both improving gaming hardware and the huge following of late - 90s BTCC racing, while the original Colin McRae Rally game neatly coincided with WRC regulations and brought its namesake to an even wider audience than his 1995 WRC victory had done.

You don't get many chances in your career to drive a car that is so capable of winning races on a consistent basis, so the temptation to push for victory is clearly there.

To honour Polestar Cyan Racing's FIA WTCC (World Touring Car Championship) title victory at the weekend, Volvo has announced the Volvo S60 and V60 Polestar Performance World Champion Editions.

This victory also marks the 23rd endurance race win at Daytona by a Mazda rotary - powered race car.

Beginning with a victory at Daytona in February 1966, Ford and Shelby dominated sports car racing.

Taking 15 wins from 16 races, it's the most dominant car in the sport's history, with Ayrton Senna taking eight of those victories to finish the year ahead of teammate, Alain prost.

Shortly after his famous victory at the Targa Florio, Sivocci was testing a new race car at the Monza circuit that did not bear his lucky four - leaf clover and he tragically crashed and lost his life and a legend was born.

In auto racing, APR Motorsport has led two MKV VW GTI's to victory in the Grand - Am KONI Sports Car Challenge and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Street Tuner (ST) class.

In auto racing, APR Motorsport has led two MKVI VW GTIs to victory in the Grand - Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Street Tuner (ST) class.

The car took three victories that year from 11 races powered — as so many were in those days — by Ford's dominant 3 - litre Cosworth DFV.

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