Sentences with phrase «backmarker rodrigo»

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.

«I had a good race with both Tiff Needell and Derek Bell in this one, and was helped out a bit when Derek got caught out and tangled up with a backmarker.

In the race, Jones is punted off course by a backmarker while leading.

While Marussia are desperately trying to get back onto the F1 grid, their backmarker buddies Caterham are selling off everything.

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.

Sadly just like his brother he was also killed in a race car when he collided with a backmarker during a sportscar race at the Norisring in 1971.

If obscure backmarker teams were still around in F1, their cars might look a little something like these

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

Although Richard Petty Motorsports is not a backmarker by any means, it is decades removed from when Richard Petty's iconic No. 43 overwhelmingly dominated NASCAR.

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.

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.

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.

Red Bull team principal Horner joked in Melbourne that the best sounding car of the weekend was a 12 - year - old backmarker Minardi.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Even the backmarkers like Minardi had pretty cars.

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.

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.