Sentences with phrase «at those sports cars»

Finally, the guys at Sports Car Protection (sportscarprotection.com) have been wielding their magic Zymol - filled wand over the LP640 this month.
In a week or two, you will find Ruedisueli at the Sports Car Club of America Runoffs, where he has competed for years.
Reading the Range Rover Sport's stat sheet, you could be forgiven for thinking that you were looking at a sports car.
The new multi-link rear suspension ensures optimum driving dynamics at a sports car level.
The result is one of the most exclusive cars of our time; one that presents a perfect symbiosis between extravagant design and driving performance and capability at sports car level.
Certainly it is not surprising to most that the 2014 Honda Odyssey and 2014 Toyota Sienna minivans were at the top of everyone's favorite family car lists, since the sole purpose of minivans is to be as good at family car duties as a Porsche 911 is at sports car ones.
The birth of the hypercar may have already changed how we, as enthusiasts, look at sports cars (including the high - end supercars), but for now, we take a look at how the newest breed of supercars — those that have debuted over the last year — stack up against the Ford GT and Acura NSX.
«When you look at sports car racing over the last 10 years, the biggest name in GT racing has to be Corvette,» Milner said.

Not exact matches

In a sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk of driving a race car at 200 miles per hour and still perform at the highest level, he talked about his injury.
The takeover, valued at $ 8 billion including debt, has been broadly welcomed in a sport featuring famous car brands such as Ferrari, McLaren and world champions Mercedes, and which has the Monaco Grand Prix as its jewel in the crown.
Lamborghini, the sports car brand owned by Volkswagen AG, said it quit draping women around its Huracans about two years ago and is busy training male and female hosts to explain the vehicle's features at this year's Geneva event.
The blueprint at that time entailed building a sports car, then continually reinvesting the cash from those models to build more affordable versions.
Autopilot is at least as safe as human drivers on the highway, in a car that doesn't use gasoline and performs like a sports car, the magazine said.
But what's most resonant here is the message at the individual level — that the urge you feel to compete, to accomplish things in your life, be it curing disease or earning enough for that sports car, is a natural thing.
Then, a 1936 Aston Martin 2 - liter sports - racing two - seater car is seen selling for between $ 2.1 million and $ 2.6 million on September 10 at the Goodwood Revival festival in England.
Sproule, who counts stints at Jaguar, Tesla, and Nissan over his career, has been overseeing the luxury British sports car manufacturer's marketing and communications on a worldwide basis over the past few years.
They're pretty well entrenched at the very highest end of the luxury sports car market.
«The specs on the new semi truck and sports car would put both vehicles at the top of their segments... assuming they can be produced and sold as part of a sustainable business plan.
The home sports an arched portico at the front door and a two - car garage off to the side.
This is a waste of human potential: it's like driving a high - performance sports car at 20 kilometers an hour.
Despite the expected decline in sales, auto makers are likely to sell at least 50,000 more sport utility vehicles, mini-vans and pickups than they did last year, while car sales will likely drop by 250,000 this year, Merlis predicted.
Its CTS - V and ATS - V cars, for example, have been extolled as first - rate, track - ready sport sedans.
Look at the most popular magazines in America: Focus on celebrities, cars, and sports / hunting / fishing.
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On June 12 at Le Mans, a Mercedes - Benz sports car kited about 60 feet into the air and flipped five times.
«In view of extremely hazardous conditions at the Watkins Glen course, because racing at this site under present circumstances places all organized motor sport in jeopardy,» says the Sports Car Club of America, it is banning to its members all races at the Glen until further notice.
But it took the swift, stylish sports cars to give it a personality as much at home in the parlor as in the mechanic's pit.
We take a look at the drivers who came back to the sport after suffering nasty injuries in racing cars
Despite the success, Alfa decided that it didn't fancy spending the money needed to build a new car and withdrew from the sport at the end of the year.
Three - mile run at 6 a.m., weights at 6:30, shower, rush to the gym to teach, dash to the lecture hall to take the exercise - physiology and sports - administration classes, sprint back to the gym to coach a 2 1/2 - hour practice, hop in the car to go scout a local high school player, burn rubber back to the gym for two hours of basketball and sprints, shower again and hightail it home by midnight to study for the biomechanics midterm.
The mechanical stars of a pair of zestful Sports Car Club of America endurance races last weekend on the exacting Road America course at Elkhart Lake, Wis. were bright - red Italian machines, an Osca and a Ferrari.
There's no word on Townley's future or whether he'll try to stay in the sport, but he hasn't been spotted at the track since being pulled from the car at Phoenix.
Despite never winning an F1 race, Cheever still achieved a lot in his varied motorsport career, winning sports car races, finishing runner - up at Le Mans twice, racing in CART and standing on the top step of the podium in IndyCar and winning the famous Indianapolis 500 in 1998.
Trim enough at 47, Greenberg used to race sports cars and motorcycles and still tools to his office at Miami's Mount Sinai Medical Center in a high - powered Porsche.
The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.
At the start of 2015 you may remember Ferrari revealing this future F1 concept, that was basically their subtle way of giving the governing body a kick up the arse to change the sport as soon as possible and make F1 cars look awesome again.
The big sports cars open a new world - championship season at Daytona as Ferrari returns to challenge speedsters from Porsche and Matra.
Two drivers will make their IZOD IndyCar Series debut this weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, headlined by Luca Filippi for Barracuda Racing and James Davison of Dale Coyne Racing.
Six outstanding new cars at the show: the Berkeley 3 - cylinder roadster ($ 1,595); the Ferrari 250GT roadster ($ 13,600); the DKW Monza sports coupe ($ 3,800); the Alfa Romeo 2 - liter roadster ($ 4,998); the Jaguar XK 150 «S» roadster ($ 4,500); and the Citroen DS 19 family sedan ($ 2,833).
The Indian driver completed a half - season at HRT in 2010 and returned to Team Lotus in 2011 in a one - off at Germany but has competed in the sports car ranks ever since.
He's also inquired with teams about potential opportunities in Brazil and in sports car racing, after making his debut in the Grand - Am Rolex Series at the Brickyard Grand Prix in July.
The sport got its first look at the new restart rule during the second race of the opening round of the season at Hockenheim after an incident on the first lap brought out the safety car... and it made for an epic run down to the first corner.
He's highly - rated by many in the sport, and given the fact that he's a Mercedes junior driver, it wouldn't be surprising to see him in one of the silver cars at some point in the near future.
Now all the sport has to do is make it easier for the cars to overtake each other... Oh well, we can dream - one step at a time for now!
Silverstone's return is great news as top - level sports car events have been happening at the circuit since 1976, making it one of the classic events of the World Endurance Championship.
Now, speaking to Polish TV's Eleven Sports, Kubica has admitted he was surprised to feel at home again in an F1 car:
The 2007 and 2008 cars were as awful as the «Earth Dreams» liveries that they sported, and he was already rumoured to be eyeing up a seat at Ferrari at the time.
At the meeting Spears, her manager Larry Rudolph and producer Ann Carli, who produced the singer's first feature, Crossroads, pitched NASCAR brass on a story about the daughter of a successful stock car team owner and how the young woman (played by Spears) inspires a former driver to return to the sport.
On April 22, Big League Dreams continues in the Kool April Nites car show tradition for the fourth straight year by hosting a show and shine for classic cars at the sports park from 6 to 9 p.m..
Montoya alreadyhas a win this year: the Rolex 24 - hour endurance sports car race at Daytona inlate January.
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