Sentences with phrase «car across the finish line»

In the closing laps six of the 11 cars still running ran out of fuel: Senna, Johansson, Brundle, Warwick, Piquet, and Boutsen — though Boutsen was lucky enough to do so right on the pit straight and was able to push his car across the finish line.

On this day in 1959, Jack Brabham won the World Championship by pushing his car across the finish line at Sebring.

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With the finish line in sight he got out of his Lotus and pushed his car across the line before collapsing from exhaustion.

He had to push his car across the line though as he'd run out of fuel, so if you really wanted to you could say his car didn't reach the finish of any races that year!

Bruce McLaren won it, but all eyes were on Jack Brabham, who ran out of fuel on the last lap but pushed his car across the line to finish fourth and take the first of his three world championships.

As it turned out, it ended up being one of the most spectacular ways to finish a race ever as his car came back down on its wheels and rolled across the line to finish eighth.

As depicted here, NASCAR isn't so much a race as a high - speed destruction derby, where the object isn't seeing who can get to the finish line the fastest, but who can be the last car able to be driven across the finish line.

Speaking at the car's launch, John Hennessy, CEO said «We expect the Venom F5, named for the most powerful tornado speed winds on the Fujita scale, to be the first road car capable of achieving more than 300mph and have worked closely with Pennzoil to get us across the finish line».

The # 007 car was the first petrol powered racer across the line, finishing fourth outright.

Peugeot's No. 3 car, driven by Geoff Brabham, Christophe Bouchut and Eric Helary, went 375 laps over the 8.5 - mile course, a distance of 3,187 miles.Peugeot's No. 1, driven by Yannick Dalmas - a member of last year's winning team - Thierry Boutsen and Teo Fabi, rolled across the finish line in second as the winning team was showered with champagne.

He came across the nose of my car as we were exiting Turn 10, nowhere near the start - finish line.

Licensed games are starting to see a resurgence, and their quality is slowly ramping up, but does Cars 3 race across the finish line, or will it have to pull into a pit - stop after the first lap?

I could join an exhibition race, competing against 11 other cars to be first across the finish line.