Sentences with phrase «racing team car»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

(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?

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.»

Those teams have incredible real - time analytics, not just at the race venue, but also real - time, big data beamed from a car driving at up to 200mph on a race track on one side of the globe to the race team's headquarters in England.

The Mucke Motorsport team has raced with pink cars in the DTM for the last couple of years thanks to their association with the same sponsor, and this year will see the pink BWT - liveries expand into the German Formula 4 and GT championships as well.

Best of all for the team, it was the No. 8 car of Sebastien Buemi / Kazuki Nakajima / Anthony Davidson which won (although Davidson didn't even get to drive in the race!)

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.

Aston Martin are already partners with Red Bull Racing, giving Max a company car that a 20 - year - old could only dream of, and next year the legendary British manufacturer will be the official title sponsor of the team.

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.

For the last eight races of the year there were two N177s on the grid as Theodore Racing (itself a major backer of the Ensign team) decided to run a car with Patrick Tambay at the wheel.

On the way there were plenty of amusing team radio messages, calling the lack of power «embarrassing, just embarrassing,» telling his engineer the race was «just a test», and saying that being passed by other cars «doesn't change my life».

The idea was that the fastest drivers and teams would have to do more overtaking and push harder throughout the race to beat the cars that didn't have to pit (remember that pit stops weren't as common at the time), making it more exciting to watch.

So when the cars were lined up ahead of the race, some teams started to dry the track.

The Virtual Safety Car period and the following real safety car period did bunch the pack up mid-race, but the fact that a Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull were all covered by seven seconds at the chequered flag indicates much closer racing between the three teams this seasCar period and the following real safety car period did bunch the pack up mid-race, but the fact that a Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull were all covered by seven seconds at the chequered flag indicates much closer racing between the three teams this seascar period did bunch the pack up mid-race, but the fact that a Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull were all covered by seven seconds at the chequered flag indicates much closer racing between the three teams this season.

the following year Alfa had stiff competition from Ferrari - mainly because the car drank petrol like it was going out of fashion - and the team «only» won four of the seven races it entered.

A lot has changed in F1 this year — the cars look better, there's some brilliant racing and we have two teams battling at the front of the field.

It made a bit of a comeback in the late - 2000s when Super Aguri ran old Honda chassis, and when Red Bull used the same cars for both of its teams, Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso.

The greatest and most successful privateer F1 team of all time, Rob Walker Racing Team ran various cars between 1953 and 1970, the famous blue and white livery winning nine races - mostly in the hands of Stirling Mteam of all time, Rob Walker Racing Team ran various cars between 1953 and 1970, the famous blue and white livery winning nine races - mostly in the hands of Stirling MTeam ran various cars between 1953 and 1970, the famous blue and white livery winning nine races - mostly in the hands of Stirling Moss.

Jan 04,2016... With the world's best drivers and top - ranking factory teams, America's biggest sports car race achie...

If it really is as close as Renault suspect, we could see teams that are comfortably finishing with both cars in the points at one race struggling to get out of Q1 at the next.

Eric Boullier seems to be thinking along the same lines and has said that as long as the car is good, he expects the team to be in the top three and win at least one race in 2018.

Neither Gustafson nor Knaus have been implicated, as the confiscated tires came off cars fielded by Stewart - Haas Racing, Richard Childress Racing and Team Penske.

Annett's car owner Rusty Wallace, for example, said last year that removing his driver from a race would hurt the entire team because it would be a severe points hit.

David Reutimann and his team owner Tommy Baldwin insisted the No. 10 car had a problem that caused it to stop on the track with three laps to go in Sunday's NASCAR race at Martinsville, but other drivers weren't convinced.

Nevertheless, the penalties remain in place barring SHR successfully appealing (the team has until Monday to decide whether to do so) and the No. 4 team is now shorthanded with car chief Robert Smith serving a two - race suspension.

In fact, his public image may have helped to hasten his downfall, for he was simply too busy with the public to spend time with his mechanics improving the team's race cars.

Nelson Piquet Jr started the race on pole and lead early on, but lost the lead to Same Bird when Bird's team mate, triple World Touring Car champion and former USF1 (remember them?)

-- This is the second consecutive race where Pastor Maldonado hasn't accused his team of sabotaging his car, a personal record.

Between 1980 and 1981, the name of McLaren F1 cars went from the M30 to the MP4 with the team's merger with Ron Dennis» Project Four Racing F2 team.

A sign of the times: A.J. Foyt, arguably the biggest name in the history of Indy car racing, will field a NASCAR Winston Cup team next season and is looking for a driver.

As a team, Red Bull also overtook more cars than any other and was also overtaken the least of any team, presumably helped by the fact that one of the cars would end up breaking down not long into the races.

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.

Sure, it uses the 2016 - spec cars, but everything else is pretty damn accurate, from the use of actual race commentary and team radio to the inclusion of some extra FOM graphics.

You run in the day, then in the night, then you've got the parade downtown with the fans, the meetings with the engineers, how the race will be divided up with your team mates, how to hand over the car to them without losing any time, and vice versa.»

It got to a point where some teams would roll up to a grand prix weekend with one of their drivers amassing something like a 65 - place grid penalty and starting the race in car parking zone Z.

So, with 2017 delivering an intense scrap between two teams and two drivers for the world titles, great looking cars and some fun racing, it wasn't surprising so many people attended the race.

The Dragon Racing team were hit with a $ 15,000 fine for doing a similar thing to Jerome d'Ambrosio's car; apparently, it's something of a grey area in the rules which the FIA is going to clarify ahead of the next race.

The FE update brings the Hong Kong ePrix circuit to Real Racing 3 and the electric single - seater car, with three teams from this season.

The luckless Abt was disqualified from his first win in Hong Kong a couple of races ago because some parts of his car had the wrong barcode on, even though it gave him no advantage whatsoever, and yet here's a team which did gain by making a potentially illegal alteration to some safety equipment and effectively got away with it.

There are a variety of game modes (including quick race and full season), while — of course — featuring all of the 2016 cars, drivers, teams and tracks.

The Ferrari 156/85 was, unsurprisingly, the car Ferrari used in 1985 and Johansson's team - mate Michele Alboreto came close to winning the championship with it, before five consecutive car failures in the last five races scuppered his chances.

McLaren was first convinced to race at Indy in 1970 but it's Can - Am based M15 suffered from a few issues and although competitive, the team decided to build an all - new car for the following year.