Sentences with phrase «car championship season»

He'll be racing in the Brazilian Stock Car championship season opener at Interlagos in 2018.

Not exact matches

The electric car championship has secured funding and TV deals across the world ahead of its first season, says Alejandro Agag, CEO of Formula E Holdings.

He completed a demo run in a Mercedes W05 from Lewis Hamilton's championship - winning season in 2014, the only hybrid F1 car taken to the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

In fact, the car only saw the finish twice all season - at the Nurburgring, when Jochen Rindt was third and Brabham himself fifth, and the team was only eighth in the championship - not great for any team, especially one that had won the last two championships!

Most of the season had gone by before the project was abandoned, and to make matters worse Kimi Raikkonen was challenging for the championship in an updated version of the 2002 car.

We'll forgive you if you've never heard of the Speedcar championship - it was a short - lived stock car championship that only ran for two seasons, featuring a mixture of young drivers and old legends.

With the all - new season five car on the horizon, we are confident that season four will assist Andre in being well prepared along with Jean - Eric to mount a solid challenge for the championship.»

Speaking to hugely influential people from the Williams team's championship - winning 1992 season, we find out exactly what made the car so good.

The big sports cars open a new world - championship season at Daytona as Ferrari returns to challenge speedsters from Porsche and Matra.

When Bill Elliott — the only driver before Gordon to win the bonus — bagged the Winston Million in 1985, it marked stock car racing's biggest payday, quadrupling the prize for the Winston Cup season championship.

The Frenchman had a fabulous career in CART Champ Cars, winning four championships and 31 races including two on ovals, and spent a season - and - a-half in Formula One.

There's also the WRC title - winning M - Sport Ford Fiesta from last year, the final iteration of the Porsche 919 LMP1 car, and a GT3 version of the Ferrari 488 which took Christina Nielsen and Alessandro Balzan to the GTD championship in IMSA last season.

Now they knew their driver had the championship, if by the skin of his teeth — and that they would win the Sears Craftsman pit crew championship, a title earned by a crew's car spending the least amount of time in the pits in 10 selected races during the season.

If he wins the championship this year and remains in a competitive car for a few more seasons, he would have a realistic chance of matching or maybe even beating Michael Schumacher's record of seven world championships.

Although the GP2 series changed its name to Formula 2 this season, the championship is still using the same cars as it has since 2011.

With McLaren and Renault both banking on improved seasons, Force India concede they need a podium - challenging car if they want fourth in the championship.

(Also known as «Formula One 2009») F1 2009 offers a fully authentic FIA Formula One championship experience with all the teams, drivers, cars and tracks from the 2009 season.

Drivers can begin their motorsport career in grassroots series such as karts and race their way to the very top echelons where many of the world's most prestigious brands and cars await; or they can choose to begin in any motorsport discipline; or even go straight into one particular type of motorsport, and spend one or multiple seasons in that championship.

This marks the start of Season 4 for Project CARS eSports which will include new championships, and more eSports liveries coming to the game in future updates.

This car contested the GTU class, for cars under 3.0 liters, and while it didn't win a championship, GTU Celicas racked up 10 wins over several seasons against the dominant Mazda RX - 7 GTU cars of the day.

When Group B rally cars were legislated out of the World Rally Championship at the end of the 1986 season, Lancia needed a production - based alternative to tackle Group A. Key technologies from the Delta S4 Group B, namely four - wheel drive and turbocharging, were then applied to the narrow - bodied Delta HF 4WD to create a very short - lived (yet able) road car and, for 1987, a WRC championship - winning rally car.

Launched at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, AMR amplifies and accentuates the sporting prowess of the British marque's road cars, by taking inspiration or direct influence from Aston Martin Racing's participation in the FIA World Endurance Championship; a series with which the marque tasted world championship success with factory drivers Nicki Thiim and Marco Sørensen just last season.

Familiar Names to Make Up Corvette Racing North American Endurance Driving Roster Fässler, Rockenfeller to support team's long - distance program in 2018 Team has three Rolex 24 and 11 Sebring victories Duo a part of three victories for Corvette Racing since start of 2016 Corvette Racing set to embark on 20th season of competition DETROIT (Dec. 21, 2017)-- Corvette Racing is bringing back two well - known, championship - winning drivers for North America's biggest events in endurance sports car.

The new racing Corvette showed promise with impressive speed and economy ahead of its full - season campaign in North America's new sports car racing championship.

This year's season - opening round of the 10 - race American Le Mans Series presents formidable challenges for Chevrolet's championship - winning sports car team.

To help defray costs, teams can choose to share the car with another driver and the series will recognize both individual and team championship awards at the end of the season.

And at the center of it all is the championship - winning Optima race car, sporting a new look for the 2015 season.

Larbre claimed the GT1 Le Mans Series title with the DBR9 in 2006, proudly continuing an unbroken series that has seen the team win a major sports car championship every year for the last seven seasons.

The car, a Huracan Super Trofeo Evo, will compete in one of the Italian manufacturer's Super Trofeo series this year, in the launch season of the upgraded package for the single - make championships in North America, Europe and Asia.

After winning its seventh consecutive GT1 manufacturers and team championships in 2007 using E10 (10 percent ethanol), Corvette Racing's twin Compuware C6.R race cars made the transition to E85 for the 2008 season.

[42] Swiss Team fielded the cars in the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons; Italian racing driver Andrea Bertolini won the 2011 championship at the wheel of a Swiss Team Quattroporte.

Headlining in his first ever Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race, team newcomer and car owner Jorgensen, will come after a strong club racing season featuring two class championships and over 20 podium finishes, not to mention competing in multiple Touring Car races during the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge seasCar Challenge race, team newcomer and car owner Jorgensen, will come after a strong club racing season featuring two class championships and over 20 podium finishes, not to mention competing in multiple Touring Car races during the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge seascar owner Jorgensen, will come after a strong club racing season featuring two class championships and over 20 podium finishes, not to mention competing in multiple Touring Car races during the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge seasCar races during the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge season.

Roberto Ravaglia, Wilfried Vogt and Eric van de Poele had won the world, European and German touring car championships with their BMW M3 as early as during the 1987 season.

The main stages on which the cars will appear next season include the Pirelli World Challenge (PWC), in North America, the Competition102 GT4 European Series, the Euroseries by Nova Race as well as national GT championships.

First outing of the season was at the Silverstone round of the FIA GT championship for the RAC Tourist Trophy where, in the hands of David Brabham, Christophe Bouchut, the car came home 4th.

In Touring Car A, the 2014 defending champion Jason Wolfe secured his second consecutive TCA championship scoring eight wins on the season piloting the No. 36 Wolfe Trucking Kinetic Motorsports Kia Forte Koup after holding off heated challenges all season from Tony Rivera, in the No. 86 Brass Monkey Racing Scion FR - S and Patrick Seguin, in the No. 39 helpkevinproject.com Team Ost Racing Honda Civic SI.

In Touring Car, a number of drivers remained in contention all season long for the championship.

Chevrolet Z28 driver Michael Cooper secured his second career Pirelli World Challenge drivers» championship (Touring Car, 2012) in GTS on the strength of four wins during the season.

In the last season that # 101 raced, 2008, the car was run in four race in the European Le Mans Series achieving three firsts and a third but missed out on championship victory by a single point.

American Le Mans Series 12 - Hour Season - Opener Marks Corvette's 50th Year in Racing SEBRING, Fla. — Corvette Racing's championship - winning Corvette C5 - R is a tough act to follow, but the new Corvette C6.R race car is up to the task.

And while the car had a few teething problems over the rest of the season, there were no more dedicated engine failures, and the Mazda 6 won the GX manufacturers» championship.

Courtesy of his championship winning season as well as being part of the M1 GT Racing Audi Sport customer racing program, the Florida resident and newly crowned champion was awarded a test in the Audi RS DTM car overseas.

«We will continue to run the existing car in the British championship through 2013, with the intention to then introduce the new turbo - charged Clio Cup car the following season.

Peugeot planned to campaign the car in the 2009 Le Mans Series season, although it was not allowed to score championship points.

Developed by Olsbergs MSE, a Swedish racing team that also designs race cars, the new GRC - spec Civic Coupe will replace the car that ran against Volkswagen, Ford, and Subaru in the 2016 season, placing third in the manufacturers» championship.

The year was 2004 and the Corvette Racing Team was in its final and 4th championship winning ALMS season with the venerable GT1 class C5 - R race car.

Experience the 2013 season with the drivers, cars and courses of the WRC, WRC 2, WRC 3 and, for the first time, Junior WRC championships.

Racing can be done in the championship mode, which is an entire one - player season in which high finishes in races allow the user to unlock more cars, part upgrades, and new tracks.

Also, the very definition of classic paints a picture of cars from an era when F1 was in its origins such as in the 1950s or at the very least decades ago between the 1960s and 1980s or alternatively teams that were established and well respected that are no longer in F1 within the season the game is based upon including Alfa Romeo, Brabham and the classic Lotus which participated from 1958 to 1994; yet having a car from the 2010 season seems in total conflict with that very notion, regardless of it being a championship winning car.

There are varying rules and stipulations throughout the championships; for instance Classic Championship Season contains 12 rounds worth of 5 laps, 25 %, 50 % or full distance races in which your 19 opponents can choose the same car as much as they want with points scoring reverting back to the former system of 10 points for a win and only the top six cars scoring points, while Sprint Championship contains six 5 lap races in which a full grid of modern cars have their grid order randomised for the first race with championship order being reversed to decide grid positions; therefore providing a set of unique championships that feel fresh and are thoroughly entertaining to participate in.