Sentences with phrase «f1 car driving»

How cool would it be to see an F1 car driving upside down?

The F1 cars driving through the city were Jos Verstappen's ex-Arrows A21, a Benetton B186 and a Footwork FA15.

Short of actually being there, what's better than listening to a selection of V8, V10, and V12 F1 cars driving around Imola?

Listening to a selection of V8, V10, and V12 F1 cars driving around Imola which have been recorded with a binaural microphone.

IAA Frankfurt motor show highlights: The Honda Urban EV concept, Mercedes - AMG Project One, a road - going F1 car driven onto the stage by Lewis Hamilton (who would soon win his fourth World Driver's Championship), Renault Symbioz concept, a modern rolling living room, Ferrari Portofino, Hyundai Kona, Kia Proceed concept, and according to Robert Cumberford, the new Borgward Isabella and something called the Aspark Owl.

The Atom was beaten only by a class nine Autograss car powered by a 2.0 l Lexus - Toyota touring car engine which set the official indoor speed record, beating the previous record held by a Toyota F1 car driven by Top Gear's driver The Stig.

Not exact matches

Off the back of his epic recovery drive to second place in Baku, Mercedes racer Bottas was back behind the wheel of an F1 car on Saturday.

As it turns out, it wasn't because he's forgotten how to drive an F1 car over the winter, but because his RB14 sustained some early damage.

The iconic McLaren MP4 / 4 is one of F1's most famous cars, and looks like a load of fun to drive in the F1 2017 game

It's always an intriguing topic to think about, but this video delves into whether it's actually possible to drive an F1 car upside down

It was his first time driving a contemporary F1 car since before his rally accident, with Renault giving Kubica his debut in 2017 machinery.

He was driving a 2015 mule car, featuring a special rear wing with curved endplates — like we'll see on the new F1 2017 cars, and got a glimpse of on the official Williams FW40 renders.

What we can say after the test is that now Robert has no doubts, and he can drive an F1 car without limitations.

Driving an iconic F1 car such as the Williams FW14B must be a huge privilege, but also be completely terrifying.

Massa also said that the challenge of driving an F1 car stays pretty much the same, even when rules are changed.

In 1987 Nelson Piquet put his Williams on pole at an average speed of 159.5 mph, at the time the second fastest lap ever driven in an F1 car (Keke Rosberg's pole lap at Silverstone in 1985 was the fastest at 160.9 mph).

Someone however thought it'd be funny to suggest driving the Lotus E23 F1 car around Spa - Francorchamps at night.

Unfortunately no price is listed, but that doesn't mean it's free - much like when Minardi was still an F1 team, if you want to drive the car, you're going to have to pay for it.

He had a drive secured with Minardi for 1999 and was one of the pre-season favourites for the championship, but just before his first test with their new car he sensationally announced his retirement from F1 at the age of only 20.

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.

But, there's always the question of whether F1 cars could actually drive upside down.

It's his first time driving a modern F1 car, having previously done two tests in a 2012, Renault - liveried Lotus E20 — which followed numerous single - seater tests, to prepare for them.

Although she was development driver for Lotus in 2015, Jorda has only driven an F1 car in the team simulator, which makes you wonder what experience she seems to be speaking from.

It's always a little bit odd to see an F1 car being driven by someone without a helmet, but it's even stranger when it's on the public road as well.

When I decided to stop F1, I was talking with some teams and with Formula E. I wanted to see the car, I wanted to drive the car and see how it is.

Add on top of that the need to drive a certain way to make a strategy work, or how to deal with dirty air from other cars and you've got driver who have as much on their plates - if not more - than F1 drivers, albeit with much more disastrous consequences for getting it wrong.

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That car was the McLaren F1, and one driven by JJ Lehto, Yannick Dalmas and Masanori Sekiya ended up winning at the F1's first attempt.

A couple of weeks ago some classic F1 cars (a 1986 Benetton B186, 1994 Footwork FA15, and a 2000 Arrows A21) were seen driving through Adelaide's city streets at night as part of a promo for the upcoming Adelaide Motorsport Festival, which takes place from 7 - 10 December.

He didn't have a whole lot of experience driving single - seaters - let alone F1 cars - but even so he was entered into his home Grand Prix at Hockenheim, driving a Penske for the newly - formed ATS team.

A sensible choice you'd think, but it wasn't Marc Gené (who'd successfully subbed for Williams in 2003 and 2004) who got the nod, it was 38 - year - old Luca Badoer, someone who hadn't competed in a Grand Prix since the last century, and hadn't driven an F1 car since the end of 2008!

This wasn't the first time Webber has driven racing machinery on public roads, having done a demo run across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a Williams F1 car in 2005, and across the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne for Red Bull in 2011.

And now he wants to be given the chance to drive an F1 car again, feeling he's ready for the opportunity.

Lately I have spent an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort trying to prepare the best I can in case I will have opportunity to drive an F1 car and I had a great day.»

The last woman to drive an F1 car was Susie Wolff, when she took over Bottas» Williams in FP1 at the British GP in 2015.

I can even admit that an F1 car was one of the easiest machines to drive with my limitations following my accident.

Having not driven an F1 car in over six years, it proved to be a huge milestone for Kubica after his terrifying rally crash early in 2011.

The GPDA has been pushing for quicker and more challenging cars to drive, so the 2017 regulations obviously moved F1 in the right direction.

Kubica was clearly delighted to know he can still drive an F1 car quickly and hinted that he's up for a possible return in the future.

At Mercedes Lewis Hamilton was in the car on Tuesday (and declared the new hypersoft as the best tyre Pirelli has made in F1), whilst Valtteri Bottas took over on Wednesday in what is (probably) the last time Mercedes» championship - winning W08 will be driven on a circuit in anger.

Roberto Mehri was racing in F1 for Manor in 2015 but unusually decided to carry on racing in Formula Renault 3.5 at the same time, presumably so he didn't forget what it was like to drive a competitive car.

Doornbos meanwhile was driving a two - seater F1 car.

So if you're bored of all the Tilkedromes on the real F1 games then instead you can drive the cars around Los Santos instead.

The FW14B from the 1992 is undoubtedly a fan - favourite, partly because Nigel Mansell drove it to his one and only F1 title and also because it was a stunning car with a super-classy livery too.

So the Chiron already has a bit of a motorsport connection, and now that's been added to as two - time Indy 500 winner and former F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya recently drove the car during a test session.

He's set to drive a 2012 - spec Lotus F1 car at Valencia on Tuesday, which'll be his first time driving a car from the sport in over six years.

The former Japanese F3 champion has been part of McLaren - Honda's driver development programme since 2016, but this will be his first opportunity to actually drive an F1 car.

Romain Grosjean is confident that Haas can consistently threaten the top six this season and believes the VF18 is one of the best cars he has ever driven in F1.

Renault has now shared pictures and a short video of Kubica in action at the Valencia track, his first time driving an F1 car in over six years.

Before sampling a GP3 car at the Franciacorta Circuit in Italy, he hadn't driven a single - seater racing machine for six years — the last time being the pre-season F1 test at Valencia in 2011 for Lotus.