Sentences with phrase «racing team driver»

Helping the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion to celebrate the Corvette and the 50th anniversary of the exceptional Stingray model will be various luminaries, including Corvette Racing team driver Tommy Milner, who will take part in Saturday's popular Picnic in the Park discussions along with three - time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart, comparing the past of long - distance sports car racing with the present.

Not exact matches

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

And don't forget that at the level of racing where we compete, our team is often the first time where young drivers get an opportunity to race in front of the big teams on the big tracks.

«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.

In racing, sponsorship can be as simple as just picking a famous driver or team and writing a check.

A fully - electric street racing series, the ABB FIA Formula E Championship is made up of 10 teams and 20 drivers, with races taking place in cities like New York, Paris and Hong Kong.

(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.)

They provide insight and information for the team and the driver to adapt their strategy as the race unfolds.

It's how Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica first made an impression, and although teams can still elect to run different drivers in practice sessions it has to be at the expense of one of their regular race drivers.

«Red Bull has always shown their faith and belief in me with actions; inviting me in to the young driver programme as a 16 - year - old, then giving me my start in Formula 1 when I was just 17, and then the opportunity to race with Red Bull Racing where I had such a dream start with this team.

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.

«Ferrari: Race to Immortality» focuses on the Scuderia's early years in F1 and the drivers who raced for the team

The post-race celebrations are magnificent and if you feel physically, mentally and emotionally drained just from having watched the race, then imagine how it is for all the drivers and teams!

Teams will have the opportunity to put on fresh tyres in this situation, but in cases where there is no fresh rubber available, (say at a very late phase in the race) then the drivers must try and get off the line with worn tyres.

The Ferrari driver didn't have an entirely smooth session though as he accidentally paid a visit to his old team Red Bull Racing when returning to the pits after a run.

«The last four or five races we lost 20, 30 points that probably could help my classification in the drivers» standing and also the constructors» standing for the teams.

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

Firstly, he looks like a driver ready to fight for a championship and secondly, the future of the Red Bull Racing team is very much built around keeping Verstappen happy.

The DTM series has decided to ditch team - to - driver radio communications during races for the upcoming season

He would not have driven at all, for it is a race much hated by most of the drivers, but young Cesare Perdisa gave up racing after the recent death of the Italian champion, Eugenio Castellotti, and De Portago, as a member of the Ferrari team, was asked to take Perdisa's 3.8 Ferrari.

When Jack Roushannounced in April that he was overhauling two of his race teams, changing thecrew chiefs of Carl Edwards and Jamie McMurray, neither driver was happy withthe news.

Many believe his actions were not an appropriate way a NASCAR team owner should act, yet Richard Childress Racing drivers Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick are glad to have Childress in their corner.

Mike Conway, who will compete with Ed Carpenter Racing on road / street courses next season, tested the No. 20 Fuzzy's Vodka entry for the team, with team owner / driver Ed Carpenter in attendance as well.

By happenstance, FRR was in need of a driver with Kurt Busch leaving the team to join Stewart - Haas Racing.

NASCAR team won a combined 53 races, two driver championships and one Truck Series owner championship.

Millions of fans look to NASCAR drivers for the proper way to conduct themselves on the road, and if NASCAR and the race teams don't take a DUI charge seriously by issuing a severe penalty, it sends the message that drunk driving is somehow not that bad.

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.

Team Penske has won five of the eight races on 1.5 - mile tracks this season — Keselowski and teammate Joey Logano are the only drivers with multiple victories — with Logano winning the April Texas race.

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.

That's why RAB Racing team owner Robby Benton's decision to indefinitely suspend driver John Wes Townley for DUI on Friday was a significant statement — and why it shouldn't go unappreciated.

CART never ran a head - to - head race against the Indy 500 again and the top teams and drivers began to return in 2000.

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.

He'd qualified behind his team mate, was behind him in the race, came into the pits by mistake and retired with a gearbox problem — but was still voted driver of the day.

A Friday dedicated to dreary practice sessions which mean everyone is over-prepared for the race, or a Friday where you can go to the track for free, interact more with the teams and drivers and watch a Procar race, followed by a less predictable Grand Prix weekend?

This isn't just your typical race highlight montage however, but a beautifully shot movie with insights from drivers and team members getting just as much of the spotlight as the on - track action.

All three drivers mentioned above ended up not finishing the race - Leclerc later clashed with his team - mate and spun, Marciello was out on lap one and Boschung kept going a bit longer.

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.

That means that drivers who take a penalty for a race earlier in the weekend will potentially benefit, which should make it interesting when all the Renault - and Honda - powered teams race to announce their penalties before each other on a Thursday morning...

However, with both Bahrain and China showing that it is still possible for drivers to race each other, the teams are apparently not too keen to spend a load of money of changing the regulations to fix a problem that they're not sure exists.

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.

Quite often when a teams» lead driver retired from the race they'd pull in a slower driver and give it to the faster guy in the hope of getting a better result... and it makes for some weird looking results.

Will the lure of gaining track position entice teams to employ unconventional strategy like the Toyota teams used in the Daytona 500 where the drivers for Joe Gibbs Racing and Furniture Row Racing all short - pitted in hopes of gaining an advantage at the end?

The company is the primary sponsor for Team Penske and driver Will Power, and will back Juan Pablo Montoya in eight races.

The 22 - year - old Harraka would have been a top prospect for a team's driver development program several years ago, the type that brought Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle to Roush Fenway and Kevin Harvick to Richard Childress Racing.

Alonso and Button are two of the most experienced open - wheel drivers alive today, and on Sunday, Alonso wished his former teammate luck over team radio just before the lights went out for the Monaco race.

With strategy being something of an unknown during the Bahrain GP, pretty much every team and driver looked like they might be in with a shout of some points over the course of the race - well, everyone except for Williams.

Due to the clash between this year's Le Mans and the European Grand Prix, F1 fans, journalists, drivers and team personnel didn't get to watch the conclusion to one of the greatest Le Mans races ever.

It's the latest in a catalogue of car problems for the team in Bahrain which also saw multiple failures across the race weekend for both drivers.

There are plenty of things to look out for, from teams and drivers and in their final race and championships to be decided.