Sentences with phrase «as seasoned driver»

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«We are excited to partner with DSR driver, Leah Pritchett, who recently closed out her impressive 2017 season with four NHRA event titles,» stated Chris Hall, Chief Operating Officer of Talking Rain Beverage Co. «At Sparkling Ice, we were immediately inspired by Leah's career, especially as a woman making waves in such a male dominated field.

Such fresh talent as Anthony Pendleton, among the top 10 schoolboys two years ago, is the reason only one of last season's three returning starters, former Disneyland float driver Bob Erbst, is likely to start again.

Both drivers head into the 2018 season knowing that the record book has them down as equals, with four titles apiece.

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

This season saw pretty much half the amount of overtaking that we had in 2016 as drivers have found the new generation of cars much harder to follow each other in.

He was as a development driver for Sauber in 2014, Renault in 2016 and then promoted to the Renault reserve driver role last season.

The team might say otherwise, but Williams» need to take funded drivers in recent seasons suggests that there's some kind of underlying budget issues, with the loss of Martini as a sponsor for next year surely not helping.

The halo's introduction for the 2018 F1 season has divided fans, as well as the drivers — who shared their thoughts ahead of the Hungarian GP

As a recently retired Mercedes driver who has raced against Lewis intensely, Nico's insight this season could be unique on anything concerning the Mercedes garage.

Daly says the stats lie because he often uses an iron off the tee, and he has gone so far as to calculate that in his last five starts of the season he averaged 314 yards with his driver.

«I think we've got as good of a chance to win it all as anyone,» says Busch, 32, who finished the regular season 10th in the standings and with more top 10s (15) than any other driver save Harvick (who had 17).

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.

Kyle Larson was one of the best drivers throughout the 2017 Monster Energy Cup Series season, winning four races, leading the third-most laps and entering the playoffs as a title favorite.

According to crew chief Brian Pattie, Montoya — who comes as close to being a diva as any driver in NASCAR — has committed himself this season to turning more practice laps.

It has been a long year for NASCAR's most popular driver, and as soon as he collapsed onto a couch in the cool of his coach, Little E let out a deep sigh and acknowledged a sobering reality: In his last season with Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI), the team that his father founded, he isn't likely to challenge for the Cup.

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.

This year's silly season is set to be a particularly silly one as several top drivers are out of contract at the end of the season, so Alonso's decision is likely play a big part in any discussions.

Over 10 seasons and 123 races «Superswede» Ronnie Peterson proved himself as one of the fastest and most exciting drivers in F1.

With a sixth - place finish in the French Grand Prix at Magny - Cours the day before, Andretti had just passed the midpoint of his first season as a Formula One driver, and he felt he had turned an important corner, even if a voice from the backseat kept telling him it was the wrong one.

The clothing brand at one point had aggressively marketed drivers as a cornerstone of television campaigns and tossed house parties at select races — but both have vanished in recent seasons.

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

Thankfully though two of the most talented drivers in the series will continue in the class as Andre Lotterer and Neel Jani have been snapped up by Rebellion who will be returning to the LMP1 class for the 2018/19 WEC super season.

This year it seems like silly season has been as much about team personnel as it has the drivers — Pat Symonds left Williams, Frederic Vasseur left Renault and Paddy Lowe left Mercedes.

In part because of his maturation as a driver and person — he and wife Samantha welcomed their first child in 2015, the same season Busch remarkably returned from serious injury far sooner than expected — and in part due to strong rapport with crew chief Adam Stevens, who was paired with Busch prior to the 2015 season, the 32 - year - old has never been better.

Drivers and teams warned us that overtaking would be harder this season as the new aero - heavy cars have had a dramatic effect on how easy it is for cars to follow each other.

It makes sense of course, as Grosjean is one of the more experienced drivers on the grid — following stints at Renault and Lotus before joining new team Haas last season.

Usually this means that towards the end of the year some drivers and teams will have to worry about grid penalties as they run out of their allocations, but McLaren - Honda has been so unreliable that barely four rounds into the season Stoffel Vandoorne already has a grid drop for using too many.

To make matters worse, drivers aren't allowed to stockpile elements like they have done in the past, such as in Belgium last year when Lewis Hamilton took a load of penalties at once in order to see him through the rest of the season.

It's a bit annoying the shark fins are going in the bin for the 2018 season as they're the perfect spot for driver names and numbers, and it'd be nicer if the designs we've seen so far were a bit bigger too.

Tiger Woods appeared to fix some of the big misses off the tee with his driver but his putter stayed as frigid on the back nine of his opening (and, likely, penultimate) round of the season as it was on the front at Whistling Straits.

He'd just had an impressive points - scoring season with Manor and, when Nico Rosberg announced his shock retirement, as a Mercedes junior driver Pascal looked to be in prime position to be promoted to F1's top team.

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.

While there is plenty of Regular Season left to be played, they are now in the driver's seat and completely control their own destiny as the race for the # 1 seed will heat up in coming weeks.

It's enjoyable just as a standalone race, but if you've been watching the season and following the stories of different drivers and teams it takes on a whole new dynamic.

It's the main event of the Super GT season as teams and drivers tackle 173 laps of the legendary circuit in a race lasting the best part of six hours.

Lewis Hamilton's debut F1 season and the 2007 title fight were shaped by one moment — the British driver sliding his McLaren into the gravel as he entered the pits in Shanghai.

Instead of having three engines to last the season, drivers will be able to use as many engines as they like throughout the season.

Just as McLaren has put out the «Grand Prix Driver» mini-series on Amazon Prime, F1 is going to produce a 10 - episode documentary based on the 2018 season which will air at some point early next year.

Silly season is usually all about where various drivers are going to end up, but this year the speculation over which engines McLaren will have in 2018 is as exciting as any potential driver move.

As NASCAR prepares to drop the checkered flag on its season, Tony Stewart (above) is in the driver's seat.

The publication said he completed «a number of laps» and also reports that if the Polish driver feels ready and comfortable in the car, he could actually race in Formula E as soon as this season.

It'll be fascinating to see how the 18 - year - old's first F1 season goes, as the sport's second youngest driver.

Ex-Formula 1 driver Jolyon Palmer has been announced as part of the BBC's radio commentary line - up for the 2018 season.

Not since Alain Prost in 1982 has a driver won the opening two races of an F1 season and not ended the year as champion.

Force India has announced that Nicholas Latifi will be joining the team as a reserve and test driver for the 2018 season.

The rivalry between Ocon and Perez is proving to be one of the highlights this season as neither Force India driver is willing to give an inch out on track.

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

As has been the case all season long, very few messages were broadcast compared to the amount of discussion which was going on between the drivers and teams, even given the new team radio restrictions.

F1 Fanatic readers have voted Daniel Ricciardo as the best driver of the 2016 F1 season.