Sentences with phrase «braking zone»

They were there the entire day delivering strong stopping muscle and let me confidently go deeper into braking zones with firm pedal feel.

There are a few heavy brake zones around the circuit where our car is pretty strong.

Turn One is fast and an aggressive corner with a big brake zone.

The corners are high - speed and tricky, ending in hard downhill braking zones.

As I mentioned, stability in this bumpy brake zone was also excellent.

If you can get a tow up behind someone and use that big brake zone to pass them, you can gain significant advantages.

We instead suspect ripples and heaves in braking zones are causing the ABS system fits.

I could tell they were hot and I did need to use a little more pressure in a couple of brake zones late in my stint, but the car still managed to keep the same brake points as when I began.

They proved very capable in the hard braking zones at Road America.

The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) have announced the hybrid braking zones for the upcoming 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans, held at the Circuit de la Sarthe on June 16 - 17.

The GTB executes overtaking maneuvers in time - warp mode, it approaches braking zones with zoom - lens rapidity, and it defies g - force with oodles of sheer mechanical grip rather than by employing nanny - like driver - aid intervention.

It howls through the Craner Curves flat - out with almost zero steering input, the brakes are superbly feelsome and allow you to attack braking zones even if you're not a natural left - foot braker (I'm not), and the way it can drive around other road and race cars at Donington has to be seen to be believed.

Their general skill takes a hit depending on track wetness, they adjust their throttle on Livetrack puddles and wetness - related grip loss, and they compute longer brake zones due to tyre wear and track wetness.

It's long straights and hard braking zones present the types of challenges found that sports car racing typically presents.

A long straight is enough to finish the job started in the many braking zones on the A4061 and continued as each corner opened out and the flat - sixes could zing around to the limiter in second and third.

That makes for good racing because braking zones allow passing.»

Fernando is pretty good at race starts, too, and the massive long run down to the first braking zone would give him every chance to gain fistfuls of positions if he qualified badly or something.

The shallower rear wing will mean DRS isn't as effective and there will be shorter braking zones.

He noted that it was unfortunate as less - than - ideal wind direction can hamper braking performance at the hairpin, the fiercest braking zone on the circuit.

Instead, it'll be open all the time, and when a driver gets within one second of another car, the DRS of the car in front will automatically close until the next braking zone, at which point it'll open up again.

The approach to Turn 12 is one of the most violent brake zones in American racing.

Body control is superb, but this isn't a locked - down, all grip and no finesse sort of car; you're busy at the wheel, calming the 570S as you brake from high speeds over the bumpy, cresting braking zones that litter Portimao, gently correcting mid-corner and exit oversteer.

There are undulations, there are lots of really quick, ballsy corners, but it's also got tight turns and to top it off there are a bunch of heavy and off - camber braking zones.

In the spec you dream of choosing — bigger optional 18 - inch front and 19 - inch rear teledial wheels and sport suspension (same spring rates, firmer dampers, stiffer front anti-roll bar and the rear anti-roll bar standard cars do without)-- heavily cambered roads and undulating braking zones still require concentration and the ride is choppy.

They are slowish corners and there are pretty decent brake zones.

This blind turn's braking zone includes a slight bump before the entry point and another just before the apex, where the incline of the track becomes negative until the exit point of the turn.

It's almost like there is a part missing of the corner — normally you would have a big braking zone downshifts and everything getting the car ready to rotate and then shoot out the corner.

The two long straights lead into big wide brake zones into tight corners, which makes passing much more inviting.»

There are so many different sorts of corners here including some great high speed ones, good elevation changes, and some good, long, heavy braking zones where you can overtake people plus long straights for towing up behind people.

If there's a lesson to be learned from Gran Turismo 5 (the game itself, not its epic journey to stores), it's not about braking zones, exhaust manifolds, and curve apexes — it's about patience.

You see, for players who are colour - blind — in particular, those like me who are deuteranopic (a fancy word for saying «someone who, courtesy of a genetically - inherited optical defect, find immense difficulty in correctly differentiating certain shades and hues in the green - yellow - red spectrum from each other)-- this allows them to fully utilise the feature as it was intended: to assist players in learning braking zones and the quickest way to navigate corners.

Then, a couple of laps later, you string together a perfect run of braking zones, modulated throttling and momentum, and you beat him.

Through bends, steering is weighty and fairly responsive to inputs, while the Brembo brakes with four - piston front and rear calipers quickly slow the SS down, allowing for deep dives into braking zones.

Even after repeated laps through the many downhill braking zones at Cadwell Park, they remained fade free and the pedal solid.

The car had suffered a wheel problem early in the race, losing time, but just as it was being lapped in a heavy braking zone it suffered a brake issue.

Not so much: >> V8 sounds better outside than in >> Intrusive stability control >> Feels its weight in braking zones

The fact that the SLS soaks up this circuit abuse with ease and still feels genuinely scarily quick on a track (especially in the downhill braking zone at the end of the gently arcing main straight) is of huge credit to AMG.

Tight following distances, long braking zones, and forgiving handling characteristics put on a show.

It has a lot of what everyone likes in a track — a decent amount of grip, decent straightaways, good brake zones, opportunities to overtake and places where you can tow up behind people.

Our stints were admittedly short and ICAR's setup doesn't have many big braking zones, but I was never left doubting my ability to scrub off speed

So, in the areas where you need to overtake - the braking zones and traction - there wasn't a big enough differentiator.

Coronel later revealed five bolts snapped into the braking zone.

Di Grassi tried a move around the outside of da Costa but moved across the circuit in the braking zone, when da Costa was still alongside, sandwiching him between the Abt car and the barrier.

Basically, to save fuel, drivers lift off at the end of straights and coast into the braking zone, or through the corner.

«The cars are getting heavier and heavier each year and that does obviously affect the braking zones.

On the long run down to the first corner, there was some jostling for position at the back, with Liuzzi taking to the grass and losing control as he entered the braking zone.

So, his wing mirror had earlier flew off and it took him until the Turn 5 braking zone to notice.