Sentences with phrase «by a racing driver»

The once in a lifetime experience of being driven at speed by a racing driver at iconic race circuits in dream cars is truly unique.

Amputee racing driver Billy Monger's return to competition last month highlighted the challenges faced by racing drivers with disabilities.

The C 63 S Estate is crewed by racing driver Alan van der Merwe and his co-driver is FIA F1 deputy medical delegate Dr. Ian Roberts.

Led at an unusually fast pace by the race driver at the head of our three - car pack, the opportunity to stretch the super-SUV's legs shows it has the stuff it needs in the brake zones (world's largest car on ceramics, with 10 - piston front calipers and six - piston rear) and in the corners (active roll stabilization, adaptive air suspension) to back up its meteoric power.

To really underscore just how capable it is as a result, I took a back - to - back spin with Bell at the wheel of the SUV, followed by racing driver Butch Leitzinger piloting the Bentley Continental GT3 - R.

It made its entry at the show with a spectacular «Guinness Book of Records» breaking drive around a 19.1 - metre - high loop driven in a daring stunt by racing driver Terry Grant.

The 33 Stradale is also adorned with the iconic Quadrifoglio, the four - leaf clover badge first used by racing driver Ugo Sivocci in 1923 and now as a modern day mark of best - in - class performance technology, as demonstrated in the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio.

Porsche ran two cars around the» Ring for the record run; one driven by test driver Lars Kern, the other by racing driver Nick Tandy, although Kern set the fastest time.

That sports car was a British roadster with American power, introduced to North America by racing driver, entrepreneur and affable raconteur, the late Carroll Shelby.

The car illustrated here was commissioned by the racing driver, Innes Ireland (and later BRDC President) as his daily driver and as of November 2013, was on sale by Aston Martin Works.

Not exact matches

That driver will be evaluated by a skilled physician and may be required to skip a number of races.

Woodman had always harbored a dream of being a racecar driver, and once sales of the digital camera were going well enough, he indulged himself by going to racing school at Infineon Raceway, in Sonoma.

Uber raced into the field in the past few years, fueled by a desire to develop a more profitable business model that did not include paying drivers.

His legacy as one of the world's greatest race car drivers in history lives on in a film directed by Asif Kapadia.

He recognises that by achieving his F1 race seat without a manager or a crap - tonne of cash, his rise is in the minority and should provide a source of inspiration for other up - and - coming drivers ready to battle it out in lower formulae.

If it had been though it would have been by the finest of margins, which would be kind of understandable as drivers attempt to anticipate the moment the lights go out and the race begins.

With Brawn's call to make F1 cars more video game - like, and Symonds singing the plaudits of virtual environments, we're sat here wondering how long it takes before F1 drivers have to submit their gamertag rather than a race number and what's the timescale on replacing Charlie Whiting with a hologram created by Codemasters?

Raikkonen pipped the troubled McLaren drivers by a single point, and with Felipe Massa in the other car winning three races Ferrari won the Constructors» as well.

There was outrage afterwards because during the race, several other drivers had gained an advantage by going off the track and escaped punishment.

F1 Challenge was actually officially licensed by F1, but for some reason you could only race on three actual F1 tracks (Hockenheim, Monte Carlo and Suzuka) and there were only five drivers you could race (Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill, Jean Alesi, Ukyo Katayama, and Mika Häkkinen).

He is a driver who has exposed himself as being too influenced by his own mindset in the past, but he seems to thrive on race weekends in which he turns up with focus and a positive mindset, it works for him.

Vettel was sure that he was brake tested by Hamilton as they were preparing for the restart, and in a fit of mild race pulled alongside the Mercedes driver and gave booped his car into Hamilton's.

He would not have driven at all, for it is a race much hated by most of the drivers, but young Cesare Perdisa gave up racing after the recent death of the Italian champion, Eugenio Castellotti, and De Portago, as a member of the Ferrari team, was asked to take Perdisa's 3.8 Ferrari.

By happenstance, FRR was in need of a driver with Kurt Busch leaving the team to join Stewart - Haas Racing.

The top - 10 was the fifth of her career, which tied Janet Guthrie for most top - 10s by a female driver in NASCAR premier series races.

Millions of fans look to NASCAR drivers for the proper way to conduct themselves on the road, and if NASCAR and the race teams don't take a DUI charge seriously by issuing a severe penalty, it sends the message that drunk driving is somehow not that bad.

The other five playoff drivers can qualify for the best - finish - wins - the - championship finale by winning next week's elimination race at Phoenix Raceway.

Nowadays F1 drivers get lynched by the press over the tiniest things but back in the day, racing drivers got away with a whole lot worse.

Amazingly that wasn't the most overtakes by a single driver in a race — that honour falls to Lewis Hamilton in China, who made 18 passes on his way to 7th place having started dead last.

But when racing resumed he got shuffled out of the draft as several drivers went by him, including eventual winner Jamie McMurray.

Uttered most commonly by the drivers in the media pen, there definitely needs to be a «for sure» counter at each race weekend.

He's a double world champion, multiple race winner and one of the greatest drivers of all time, but somehow Fernando Alonso has managed to top all of those achievements by becoming the undisputed king of Formula 1 memes.

He'd qualified behind his team mate, was behind him in the race, came into the pits by mistake and retired with a gearbox problem — but was still voted driver of the day.

A Friday dedicated to dreary practice sessions which mean everyone is over-prepared for the race, or a Friday where you can go to the track for free, interact more with the teams and drivers and watch a Procar race, followed by a less predictable Grand Prix weekend?

Having just come off the back of my strongest year ever, being picked up by Renault F1 for their junior program, and not being that one driver to have not won a race in the series, I was feeling positive at the start of the season.

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.

Massa's unimpressed dad became a huge meme after the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix, after the camera cut to his disapproving facial expression during the race when the Brazilian driver was demoted to seventh place by Sergio Perez.

The lap times mean basically nothing, the drivers are rarely pushing as much as they could, and anything you can learn from them loses a lot of relevance because by the time of the race, the track conditions are completely different.

In 1973 Johnny Rutherford joined McLaren as a works driver and took pole with the updated M16C but reliability issues during the race relegated him to ninth place by the flag.

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.

Ed Carpenter will lead the 33 - car field to the green flag at approximately 12:12 p.m. Feinberg hopes the 50th edition will be as good as the first 49 and plans to do it by telling the drivers» stories as well as explaining the strategy behind the race.

In a nerve - wracking Pole Day that featured the fastest nine drivers requalifying in attempt to capture the No. 1 starting spot, Hinchcliffe edged second - place Josef Newgarden by the fourth - smallest speed differential in race history.

The full - time Formula One driver, who skipped the Monaco Grand Prix to race at Indianapolis, executed a textbook pass of defending race - winner Alexander Rossi where he used the draft to slingshot to inside of Rossi and then by as they raced down the frontstretch and into Turn 1.

It's not all young drivers though as B - Max have a car being raced by their 50 - year - old Japanese team principal Ryuji Kumita, who races under the name «Dragon».

In qualifying itself Sato was second, the best ever by a Japanese driver, and in the race was fighting for a podium but a bit of classic Takuma over-exuberance left him without a front wing, and his engine popped soon afterwards.

Thankfully GP2 driver Antonio Giovinazzi suffered from just a pain in his leg when he was sent flying by Sean Gelael during the Barcelona Sprint Race today.

But before the start at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, Gordon's shot at the bonus, which goes to any driver who wins three of four designated races during the season, wasn't accorded huge significance, even by the 26 - year - old Gordon.

If more than 16 drivers win races, the playoff spots will go to the top 16 by race wins, then points.

These engines have been somewhat unpopular however, as fans have been turned off by the lack of noise and requirement for drivers to save fuel during certain parts of the races, which some think goes against the spirit of the sport.

It'll be raced this season by the «Honey Badger» Daniel Ricciardo and «Mad Max» Verstappen, with the team retaining its strong driver line - up.