Sentences with phrase «as test driver»

There are also some returning drivers who previously had a season as a test driver during a wait for a new race seat to become available such as Kevin Magnussen resuming his F1 career at Renault.

This will save us having to download all our data there and then to check which is the best start technique — and there is some considerable technique involved, as test driver Michele Coughi Costantini demonstrates.

As the test driver from RML showed us afterward, you can make the thing dance, but you have to be a little aggressive with the controls.

Goodwin had been with McLaren since 1997 when the legendary Ron Dennis told him that he should work as a test driver for McLaren.

However he was replaced by Pastor Maldonado at the end of the season and joined Force India as a test driver.

Stroll had already secured the trust of Ferrari and joined its Driver Academy, but he left at the end of the year to move to Williams as a test driver alongside another F3 campaign with front - runners Prema.

Last season, he participated in some practice sessions as a test driver for Force India alongside his duties in GP3, in which he secured the title convincingly, picking up half of the pole positions and feature race victories available.

Harraka moved to Charlotte for his senior year and graduated from Lake Norman High in Mooresville, N.C.. He's since worked as a test driver for Stewart - Haas and Red Bull Racing and, in the summer of 2010, was an intern in NASCAR's corporate marketing department.

He was third in the GP2 championship in 2015 and 2016 and has been actually been around F1 for ages, having joined Sauber as a test driver in 2014 and been a Renault tester for the last two seasons.

«We are very pleased to continue our collaboration with Tatiana Calderon as our test driver.

Mercedes F1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg will add input and act as test drivers.

Not exact matches

«As you know, a lot has been in the media following the Humboldt tragedy and there is a spotlight on Class 1 testing and Class 1 driver training and that's OK.

BMW AG's new U.S. subscription pilot will put drivers into the brand's top performance cars for as much as $ 3,700 a month as the German automaker tests a new ownership model with its most exclusive customers.

Workers in safety - critical jobs will still be tested, and some, such as airline pilots and truck drivers, are governed by federal rules.

During my tests, I felt a pang of regret for even agreeing to being carted around like that in the first place, even with a human driver as a backup.

In May, Google posted job listings for test drivers in Arizona, which tech bloggers painted as a dream job.

As a result, Krafcik says Waymo's test drivers now take control of the vehicle and disengage the autonomous - drive system approximately once every five thousand miles driven.

And states that allow companies to test self - driving vehicles require them, as with human drivers, to have insurance.

The ride hailing service has started an early test into «mapping, safety and autonomy systems» as part of a part of plan to automate rides and eliminate the cost of drivers, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times.

A new round of crash tests shows passengers in the front seat of some SUVs involved in serious collisions may not get the same level of protection as drivers.

Citing data management as a process bottleneck and a significant driver of cost, Alberta Blue Cross chose Delphix to accelerate development and testing for a modernization effort that needed to be successful.

The company says it's collecting mapping data as well as testing driverless capabilities, always with «a trained driver» monitoring things from the driver's seat.

As is required for Uber's autonomous test vehicles operating on public roads, the AV had a safety driver at the wheel.

Contrary to demonstrating the outright dangers of texting while driving, it told young drivers in the video who were taking their driving test to text as they drive in order to pass the test.

Well, as it turned out all my fears, which the night before the test resulted in me tossing and turning prior to sleep and having visions and thoughts of never, ever getting a driver's license, were for naught because old Bob though limited to one eye, passed the test with pretty much the same score he received in 1963.

The morning I was scheduled to take the driver's test, my pal Butch, who drives an Audi TT, offered to accompany me, as a «licensed driver», to the Ohio State Motor Vehicle Bureau.

Even though his role as Williams test driver means he's technically one of his teammates, Massa really doesn't think much of the Scots abilities behind the wheel.

Specific test sessions are one thing, but Ross Brawn wants to introduce more ways for young drivers to gain F1 experience during actual race weekends so that they are better prepared for when they get their chance as F1 drivers.

Now he's joined Force India for the 2018 season as the test and reserve driver.

His signature at the Swiss outfit makes sense on several fronts - as a Ferrari junior driver who's had some impressive testing outings in F1 machinery last year, Leclerc's inclusion in the Alfa revolution at Sauber aligns with Ferrari's aim of having a place in F1 for it to develop young drivers.

Vettel was sure that he was brake tested by Hamilton as they were preparing for the restart, and in a fit of mild race pulled alongside the Mercedes driver and gave booped his car into Hamilton's.

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.

It wasn't entirely John's fault though — Lotus boss Colin Chapman saw Miles as little more than a test driver and didn't put anywhere near the effort into his car as they did for Rindt.

Because it's the first day of the test the drivers don't push as hard as they can, but even so the cars look pretty quick.

Some FIA World Endurance Championship teams got in on the fun by pranking their drivers as they were in a briefing at the Monza pre-season test.

Just three months after his accident tested a VW Fun Cup racer and he has a goal to compete at Le Mans in 2020 as part of an all - disabled driver line - up.

There are pros and cons to each, as Prema's F2 drivers - McLaren junior Nyck De Vries and Toro Rosso test driver Sean Gelael - so bizarrely explain in this video filled with questionable jokes.

The 27 - year - old has seven years of GP2 experience but was unable to break the glass ceiling and earn his way into Formula 1 after winning six times in that league and serving as a Honda test driver in 2008.

The product was advertised as containing zero percent THC, but the driver claims it was the reason he failed a drug test, lost his job, and has been unable to find a new one.

The sole F1 race around the streets of Dallas was a real test of endurance for the drivers as temperatures soared and the crumbling surface tested concentration to the max.

IndyCar has unveiled its new car for the 2018 season and we've now seen it on track for the first time, as well as hearing from the drivers testing it

The drivers set to test for the team are Jaden Conwright and Rasmus Lindh, as each will take part in the eight on - track sessions over the two - day period.

The new and comprehensively reworked 919 Hybrid was launched at Monza ahead of pre-season testing, as the WEC teams and drivers get back to work.

Racing for three hours in the searing conditions was a brutal test for the drivers and come the end only two had managed to complete the entire distance without sharing their drive (as was allowed at the time)- fifth - place finisher Roberto Mieres and winner, Juan Manual Fangio.

Ferrari and Mercedes grabbed all the headlines in testing as their drivers fought for the quickest times, but the Red Bull team was unusually quiet - and may even have fallen behind Williams.

Williams racer Lance Stroll didn't get his first test as a fully - fledged F1 driver off to the best start when he brought the team's running to an early end following a spin through the Turn 9 gravel trap.

As it turned out, after a month's worth of promotion, 35 - plus applicants and a test day between four finalists, it was a 14 - year - old who emerged as the most qualified candidate for the driver scholarshiAs it turned out, after a month's worth of promotion, 35 - plus applicants and a test day between four finalists, it was a 14 - year - old who emerged as the most qualified candidate for the driver scholarshias the most qualified candidate for the driver scholarship.

Strangely he doesn't seem to have gone down the rallycross route (his father was a rallycross driver and Jenson even tested a car last year), but as well as the Le Mans Classic he'll also be racing something at the Goodwood Revival.

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.

But now it looks as though the Honda deal could be on after all as the team has announced that Nobuharu Matsushita - a Honda Junior driver - will drive for the team in the Hungarian Grand Prix test.