Sentences with phrase «racing engine in»

Powered by a 302ci Ford Racing engine in a clean, custom compartment and 3 - speed manual transmission.

Dream car: If I had a drivers license, I would probably ride a motorcycle: an Aermacchi race engine in a Rickman Metisse frame.

McLaren says it «sings like a motorcycle race engine in its ferocity,» and you might need to give us five minutes while we clean the drool off our keyboards.

Not exact matches

Southwest Airlines is racing to do an inspection of all of the engines in its aircraft similar to the one that exploded Tuesday, resulting in several injuries and the death of a New Mexico woman following an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

«The Mark Webber team was telling him to try and take care of the engine a few laps before the finish because they could see from the data that the engine was in danger of breaking down and two laps before the finish it exploded,» he added, referring to the F1 race driver.

Although Google may lead the way in the race of search engines, depending what source you reference, NetMarketShare claims they control about 71 %, while DMR Stats cites a 75 % share of the world search engine queries.

He said the company was renewing the committment it has forged to news over the last 15 years because it has seen that we are in an era where «the last thing you want to see is a search engine that is not delivering quality content and with the open internet is simply becoming a race to the bottom.»

The search engine giant's data suggests Conservative leadership candidates are having a hard time standing out in the crowded race

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

The «Rookie» had been running in the top ten for the entire race and had led on multiple occasions until... you guessed it, his Honda engine blew.

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.

Held during the iconic Goodwood Revival meeting, the Settrington Cup does away with frivolities like engines or complex aerodynamics in favour of a pedalling setup in cars so small that teams have to enlist children to race them.

Toto Wolff has since confirmed the contrary, that Mercedes did use a quali - spec engine map for Q3, giving the team an advantage that won't be as much use in the race.

A Porsche turbo with 900 horsepower racing a Mini which is like as wide as it is long with a big crazy engine in it.

The combination of a Gordon Murray - designed chassis, an effective Honda turbo engine (no, really) and the best two drivers in the sport helped the MP4 / 4 to win 15 out of 16 races in 1988.

He's said that he wants to go back and try it again as he hopes to complete motor racing's triple crown, but with McLaren now switching to Renault engines it could make his chances of racing there in 2018 much harder... and that's if Alonso even stays with the team.

It's not like an engine penalty either (which is applied to the car rather than the driver) so Fernando Alonso won't have to serve it when he returns to F1 for the next race in Montreal.

The McLaren F1 GTR is most famous for winning the 1995 Le Mans race outright against the mighty prototypes, but it's also incredibly well - known for the monstrous noise from its BMW V12 engine (which was modified further for the Long Tail version, which is in the above video).

The team dropped the flat - 12 and switched to Cosworth engines for the rest of the season and Bertrand Gachot managed to escape pre-qualifying for a few races, though he never actually made the grid at all in 1990.

At the last race in Belgium, six drivers had grid drops, five of which were due to engine component and gearbox changes.

It was such a disaster that Repco withdrew from F1, leaving Brabham to put Ford engines in the BT26 the following year, transforming it into a race winner.

McLaren racing director Eric Boullier reckons the switch from Honda to Renault engines should be enough to thrust the team into a position to possibly win races in 2018

It might sound like a difficult task given the state of Honda engines this season, but there have been improvements in recent races.

«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.

Langer, in his 20 - foot dual - engine outboard, and former world champion ocean racer Jim Wynne, driving a 32 - foot aluminum craft with two 445 - hp gas turbine engines, were the only two entrants out of 31 to complete the race.

Their boat, the 23 - foot Thunderballs, was the only boat in the race with a single engine, but that one engine was a dilly, thanks to the supersupercharger mated to it by Daigh.

Now that you have a perfectly clear vision of how a Wankel operates, suffice it to say that the dispute in racing centers on how many combustion chambers the engine actually utilizes.

In other words, one doesn't create a small firm such as Cosworth, Meyer - Drake (the producers of the famed Offenhauser) or Ferrari and begin cranking out Wankel racing engines.

Such an advantage would make every present racing engine obsolete in a matter of hours and add to the crisis of escalating costs that already grips the sport.

But Mederer sees no real future for rotary engines in major league racing until a factory gets involved.

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 race.

Mazda's wailing rotary - engined beasts are some of the most iconic, and current Mazda sportscar driver Jonathan Bomarito drove an old 767B (predecessor to the Le Mans - winning 787B) in the race at Laguna Seca.

He helped to kick start the rear - engined racing revolution in motorsport, winning two titles with the Cooper team to become Australia's first Formula 1 World Champion.

With Fernando Alonso losing yet another Honda engine in FP1 in Barcelona he's now already used all four of some of the elements of his power unit, and using any more could mean he get slapped with a grid penalty at the next race.

Horner wants a return to naturally - aspirated engines, purely for reasons of «pure racing» and drivers being able to make the difference, and surely not because Red Bull hasn't had much success in the turbo - hybrid era, oh no.

Pure racing, man and machine, a competition of the best drivers in the world with combustion engines.

And he might be right, but in this race, while we're just servicing our engines regularly, adding an air intake or maybe purchasing a small turbo charger — other teams are buying Bugatti Chirons, and Pagani Zondas.

«All these difficulties that we have in the modern F1 in last four or five years with the turbo engine, it has lowered a little bit the racing spirit.

«You can handle maybe getting a flat tire, or getting caught up in a wreck, or a blown engine, something that actually happens on the race track.

2:50 p.m. — Ryan Hunter - Reay's Honda engine expired with 63 laps remaining, the first failure for the manufacturer on the afternoon following a rash of issues in the buildup to Sunday's race.

Mileage amassed while using a manufacturer development engine does not count against a team's maximum of 10,000 miles during team tests, Open Tests and race events in a calendar year.

Earlier this year Sauber announced that it would be ditching Ferrari to race with Honda engines in 2018.

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.

Busch had considered competing at Auto Club Speedway for Andretti Autosport in the IndyCar season finale later this month but had missed the deadline to notify Chevrolet that the team would need an additional engine package for the race.

«In the old days, before we had a set number of engines per driver you can use, you could use one engine per race and that cost a lot of money.

The chassis was alright but the Yamaha engine was unreliable and underpowered, and it wasn't until the seventh race of the season in Canada that Hill actually finished a race, and it wasn't until round nine at Silverstone that he even scored a point.

Following the announcement of Liberty's proposals for the 2021 season on Friday, Aston Martin President and CEO Andy Palmer tweeted that the proposed plans effectively tick all of the boxes Aston Martin needs to compete in the series as an engine manufacturer, rather than just a title sponsor to Red Bull Racing.

In qualifying itself Sato was second, the best ever by a Japanese driver, and in the race was fighting for a podium but a bit of classic Takuma over-exuberance left him without a front wing, and his engine popped soon afterwardIn qualifying itself Sato was second, the best ever by a Japanese driver, and in the race was fighting for a podium but a bit of classic Takuma over-exuberance left him without a front wing, and his engine popped soon afterwardin the race was fighting for a podium but a bit of classic Takuma over-exuberance left him without a front wing, and his engine popped soon afterwards.

Although 44 - years - old in 1970 «Black Jack» was still as quick as ever, having won the season - opening race in South Africa and been running second in Spain before his engine failed.

A 26 - foot boat really only needs a 250 - horsepower engine, but in order to race, lobstermen and women trick out boats of that size with 350 - 500 horsepower and open up their throttles for little more than pride.