Sentences with phrase «ecosse team car»

In its one and only race at the 1978 Swedish GP Niki Lauda dominated, but after backlash from other teams the car was withdrawn from subsequent races.

Which is why aerodynamics professor Bert Blocken is advising the international cycling union UCI to change the rules and increase the minimum gap between riders and their team cars.

To remove any doubts the UCI should now increase the minimum gap to 30 meters, because at that distance the effect of team cars is negligible.

TU / e professor and cycling enthusiast Bert Blocken uses his aerodynamics knowledge to calculate the effects that following team cars have in today's cycling.

And if the gap between the rider and the team car is reduced to just 3 meters, it can even reach a full minute.

And the smaller the gap between rider and car, the bigger the effect of the team car behind.

In the case of the prologue of the Tour de France next Saturday in Utrecht, riders in this time trial can save around 6 seconds if the team car maintains a gap of 5 meters, instead of the 10 meters laid down by the regulations.

Even though the effect may in practice be less due to changing conditions, Blocken hopes that his findings will convince the UCI, the international cycling union, to change the rules for following team cars.

Blocken has carried out computer simulations and wind tunnel measurements using models of a time trial rider and team car.

Strictly speaking that may be against the rules, but TV pictures show that in practice that team cars don't always observe the 10 meters laid down by the regulations.

Overall winner of the 1956 24 Hours of Le Mans, former Ecurie Ecosse team car.

Kazuki is new to the championship winning team car, and is unsurprisingly incredibly excited about the opportunity.

In two full - course caution periods, the safety cars split the factory team cars, twice giving the No. 63 an advantage in track position.

One of the very few motor manufacturers to actually sit in and race the cars he designed and built, the competition no doubt «improved the breed» and the «LM» team cars were very successful in national and international motor racing including at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.

With just 50 genuine Blower Bentleys built to homologate the five Birkin team cars, cars with provenance and traceable histories are highly valued.

Through smart strategy, heads - up driving and solid pitwork the rest of the way, the Garcia / Magnussen / Rockenfeller trio gained back three laps and finished behind the team car in class.

But Magnussen says he and his teammate, along with England's Oliver Gavin and American Tommy Milner in the second team car, will be ready for the challenge as they race in new Corvette C6.R cars.

In third was the No. 912 team car to the winning Porsche, driven by Earl Bamber, Gianmaria Bruni and Laurens Vanthoor.

Six - time 2016 winner Michael Schein figures to be one of the favorites in the GTA class with his No. 16 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, a team car to Patrick Long.

The other PF Racing team cars at Lime Rock Park are the team of Jade Buford, who won COTA in March, and Patrick Gallagher in the No. 55 Ford Mustang GT4 and the No. 40 Ford Mustang GT4 of James Pesek and Indy Lights driver Shelby Blackstock.

We had been racing and driving so hard for 24 hours, and I was racing a very fast teammate and our team car, which had slightly less fuel and newer tires.

The top Michelin technical partner team cars from BMW, Corvette Racing and Porsche North America all turned race laps within 0.5 seconds of that mark.

Xzibitionist - 20 points.Get your team car to level 4 in the Blinged Out Ride mode a total of 50 times in ranked matches.

Blinged Out Ride had you trying to upgrade your team car from level 1 to level 4 before the opposing team, using the money they dropped upon death.

Racing team cars must be evaluated by the drivers to help the whole teams improve and refine the vehicles that they are going to use.

Not exact matches

Another for a team process leader in the «Vehicle Reman Center» in Fremont, California, where Tesla makes its new cars, said the candidate would «lead the Value delivery system created to repair and remanufacture Tesla electric vehicles,» and «lead daily operations... on large volume, electric vehicle repair and reconditioning value streams.»

The team at Tesla no doubt spent many hours discussing whether to stop enforcing its copyrights and probably pored over industry data: who was buying electric cars, how much they were spending and how fast demand was changing.

For instance, studying the cooking and wardrobe habits of Indian mothers - in - law and daughters - in - law helped Lindstrom and his team make recommendations for how to design the packaging of a breakfast cereal and understanding the isolation of rural and suburban North Carolinians trapped in a car - centric culture sparked his recommendation that a local grocery store chain should double down on its feeling of community by emphasizing its homey roast chicken offering.

Horn's team suggests adding sensors to the front and back of cars so that they keep a reasonable distance apart on all sides.

Best known for its NASCAR racing team, Penske is actually a worldwide conglomerate that operates car and truck dealerships, car rental and leasing agencies and a logistics company, among other units.

For fun, Peter races cars and is the lead driver on the Thomson Motorsport rally car team.

Sometimes they work incredibly hard for seemingly no reason, like when Chase Elliott's team works to repair his damaged car at Daytona.

«Our remanufacturing team does not «rework» cars,» a spokesperson said.

Most of the cars passing whizzed on by, but twice parents of players on the team stopped to ask if I was okay.

And if that's not enough, in 2010 C.J. founded CJ Wilson Racing, a sports car race team that recently announced its move up to the IMSA GTD class, one of the premier sports car classes in the world.

Aldred and the team decided to go with a vision system that uses a top - mounted panoramic camera — not unlike what Google has in its Street View cars — to guide the vacuum around the room.

Autonomous cars are ultimately intended to cut costs, but Uber's development team has been mired in a legal battle with Alphabet's Waymo.

Some successful entrepreneurs today travel around the world, hang out with celebrities, buy properties, swanky cars, sports teams, and whatever their hearts desire because they earn millions (or billions) of dollars a year.

The steering is so precise that if you time corners right, you may even think you've tamed this car enough to be a team — it will feel as if it's reading your mind.

Even though I was driving for a team I hadn't driven for, and the pedals in the car were different than what I'm used to... the weirdest thing was driving to the race track knowing I was actually going to race.

They add that Project Titan has been «re-focused on developing an autonomous driving system that gives Apple flexibility to either partner with existing carmakers, or return to designing its own vehicle in the future» and that «executives have given the car team a deadline of late next year to prove the feasibility of the self - driving system and decide on a final direction.»

(Kyle also drives in select races in the Xfinity Series and owns a sprint car team with Justin Marks, an entrepreneur driver I profiled here.)

You wear a number of hats: broadcaster, car dealership owner, race team owner, wine entrepreneur, charitable foundation, family... How do you balance your time?

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

The Business Insider Car of the Year is chosen by BI's transportation team: Matt DeBord, Ben Zhang, and Bryan Logan, who took the XC90 on a long West Coast road trip earlier this year.

Now I not only know all these things about myself and how I should train, my team can let me know during a race if I need to change not just how I'm driving the car but how I'm performing as an athlete.»

However, Ammann told Fortune that the company doesn't plan to team up with other ride - hailing companies when it comes to its driverless car ambitions.

In 2014, GM teamed up with Google (GOOGL) to run a car - sharing pilot program on its campus in Mountain View, Calif. that let employees book and drive Chevrolet Spark EV cars.

The Ganassi team worked with NTT Data to run hitoe signals directly through the car's telemetry system; that way bio-signals could be paired with the car's speed, braking, steering wheel input, load forces... so what Tony was doing matched could be paired with what the car was doing.

Fall is here, and that means the transportation team at Business Insider is gearing up to choose our 2017 Car of the Year.