Sentences with word «backmarker»

To make things that bit more challenging, there were also a couple of backmarkers who wouldn't get out of the way because the Jerez marshals apparently forgot to bring their blue flags.

And these are not backmarker teams — the Gainsco car won once in 2013 and was in championship contention all year, while Starworks won twice, with six more podium finishes.

So, with Piquet turning 65 in 2017, we thought we'd take a walk down memory lane and remember when he had a proper fight with backmarker Eliseo Salazar.

Marcus Ericsson may have been racing for backmarkers Caterham in 2014 but his Monaco helmet definitely stood out, paying tribute to Swedish F1 legend Ronnie Peterson.

To event took place last year to celebrate the former long - time F1 backmarker Minardi and the circuit's history, with F1 beasts such as the Ferrari 643, Minardi PS048 and Williams FW07.

Every now and then, however, Minardi would build a car that would thrust the team from backmarkers to the dizzy heights of the lower midfield.

Regulation B.FL4G: - Track marshals will no longer use blue flags and will instead be equipped with anti-kinetic suspension stun guns that cryofreeze backmarkers in their tracks.

Senna's aggression when it came to passing backmarkers (especially helpful with the likes of René Arnoux) ensured he remained in second for the rest of the race, as Prost dropped back and eventually retired with brake failure.

Both Jordan and Minardi, F1's backmarkers at the time, both had completely new line - ups.

Swindon - based Handy Motorsport is run and owned by ex-BTCC backmarker Simon Belcher, and currently runs a Toyota Avensis for Austin.

With just 18 - laps to go in the 500 Milhas karting race in Brazil, second - place Tuka Rocha punted out backmarker Rodrigo Dantas, who had been holding up Rocha whilst teammate Felipe Massa pulled out a lead.

It's hard not to like the Sauber team - whereas Minardi were always the lovable backmarkers, Sauber have often been the loveable midfielders, and I for one would love to see them back in a position to be regular points scorers and challenge for the occasional podium.

He was still ahead of both Williams», though - which seems to be establishing itself as the true backmarker squad of 2018 - and is the only team yet to score any points.

However, aerodynamics had moved on so much that Ferrari went from champions to virtual backmarkers.

In fact it might be the most backmarker - ish livery of all time and for that, it rocks.

He thinks that Toro Rosso taking Honda engines is a sign that it's in trouble, like when struggling backmarkers resort to taking pay drivers over talented ones, and that it could lead to the collapse of the team.

Sit back and enjoy the wonderful sight of power oversteer as Stippler has to negotiate backmarkers through the tricky streets whilst dealing with lunges and battling hard for second place.

If you want to get a slice of that «backmarker chic» without having to buy a Brabham, then there is an alternative out there...

Come on Codemasters, give us a late - 80s Ligier - for those of us who aren't particularly good at the game, the chance to be a really, really annoying backmarker would not only be desirable, but historically accurate!

If you're going to have some historic backmarker content then you've got to have something that was driven by the late, great Andrea de Cesaris.

In 1988 perennial backmarkers of the decade Osella called its car the FA1L.

Ok, it doesn't quite fit the topic, but everyone's favourite backmarkers suffered such spectacular unreliability when they first entered F1 that I just had to include it.

If James didn't like you, if you were an unhelpful backmarker or if you were just a bit out of your depth, you'd get both barrels.

I could control the pace but backmarkers made it tricky.

This year the time difference was reduced from 1.5 seconds to one second, with backmarkers getting a «warning» that they're about to be lapped when the leaders get within three seconds.

In an effort not to lose too much time he went for a risky move on backmarker Jean - Louis Schelesser at the start of the penultimate lap.

Wickens had led most of the way from pole and although Rossi was gaining in the closing stages, a mistake whilst lapping backmarkers dropped him far enough back to make it look fairly comfortable for Wickens.

A driver who on more than one occasion put backmarker cars into the points and showcased strong pace and racecraft, there is a feeling that Wehrlein's F1 story is far from over.

We asked if he felt that his time in backmarker machinery hindered his ability to showcase what he was truly capable of.

From there he moved onto Larrousse where he spent three seasons being fast but crash - happy, and also being a bit of an uncooperative backmarker.

Lance Stroll was forced to park his car on track after FP2, while Sauber are in their usual spot as backmarkers.

I have a love for plucky backmarkers and always hope they'll move forward — love a good success story and always hoped they'd lurch into the top ten and prove everyone wrong.

The final event wasn't exactly packed with top names as most of the 13 runners were made up of midfield and backmarker teams, but it did have reigning champion Keke Rosberg, as well as Ferrari's René Arnoux.

His best option going forward may be to stay at Phoenix Racing, helping owner James Finch grow the team in the same way Tony Stewart took Gene Haas from backmarker to Cup champion.

Racing Scott Dixon for second place, Bourdais took advantage of a couple of backmarkers to make a move and when he did, it was... well, epic!

In the closing stages of the race Toyota was running 1 - 2 and looking set to take to fight to Bahrain in a couple of weeks, but Jose Maria Lopez crashed into a backmarker and dropped back, handing Porsche the title.

Generally a backmarker, its best season came in 1977, when Clay Regazzoni got into the points on three occasions for the one - car team with the N177 chassis.

They qualified 15th and 16th for the race, a great achievement for the backmarker team.

But when you look at it you just know that this is the livery of a backmarker.

Most of his career was spent at midfield or backmarker teams, which didn't help matters.

How can we have great racing all the way through the field and unexpected results if some teams (cough, Ferrari, cough) are getting extra money just for showing up and backmarker teams are struggling to win considerably less prize money.

The line - up at the backmarkers (now without HRT) changed again, with Charlies Pic and Giedo van der Garde at Caterham and Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton at Marussia.

When you think «backmarker» the first team you think of has to be Minardi.

So when Michael Schumacher hesitated behind a backmarker going into that very corner, Jacques put his theory into practice.

It's more difficult to follow in the 2017 cars than it has been in the past, and some drivers have complained that backmarkers are costing them time even though they're outside of the blue flag window.

Unfortunately for this backmarker, he pushed a little too hard.

Under darkness and with only headlights lighting up the track, spinning cars in the midfield were always going to be tough to avoid for some of the backmarkers.

Montoya of course didn't back down and managed to tough it out on the outside and stole a tow from the backmarker of Tarso Marques, giving him just the enough of an advantage to win.

There's nothing like the excitement of seeing a backmarker or midfield team suddenly come up with an absolute peach of a car