Sentences with phrase «car around a circuit»

More accurately, you miss the downforce when driving the standard car around a circuit.
The Lotus Sport Exige Cup is one of the quickest cars around a circuit.
«You have to have the experience to know that patience pays, and that means waiting for the track to dry so that you can get a car around the circuit safely.
Historically, driving sims have tended to focus on the challenge, rather than the enjoyment, of flinging a car around a circuit at speed.

Not exact matches

The video features Abt taking his Abt Audi Sport Formula E car in 170Kw race mode around the Varano circuit in Italy.
The 99 is actually on the car because that's the number of three - time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo, who got a chance to test Hamilton's 2014 title - winning Mercedes around the Silverstone International circuit earlier this year.
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.
All of these F1 cars raced around the Adelaide circuit in period and will do so again during a display at the festival, which uses part of the track.
But the cars will at least be a lot faster, with lap times expected to be around four seconds per lap faster at most circuits, and as much as 10 seconds at Le Mans
In testing today, the car just set a 1:41.770 around Spa - that's eight - tenths faster than Lewis Hamilton's pole time at the circuit in 2017, the previous circuit record.
The cars themselves are pretty badass — think DTM cars on steroids — and are almost as fast as LMP1 cars around the Fuji circuit.
The event was organised by American Race Car Experience, who run driving experience days around the oval circuit at Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby.
If you plan to come by car, please note that, starting around 8 am on June 21, the upper reaches of the Königstuhl will be transformed into a circuit of one - way streets.
You could do a 30 - minute tempo run around the local area, a bodyweight circuit in the car park, run up and down the steps of your building or even go to the gym if it's nearby.
The chief offender, however, is the opponent AI, which regularly pays no mind to your presence on each circuit and is particularly deft at muscling you onto the grass and turning your car around by poking its nose into gaps it really should have thought better of.
The story of the film revolves around McQueen coming to terms with being the «old guy on the block,» with newer and flashier cars driving up the circuit.
A significant technical effort went into camera placement on cars and at strategic locations around the racing circuit in order to caption the elements of excitement, tension, and danger.
It currently holds the record for the fastest front - wheel drive car around the famous Nurburgring circuit — smashing the record that Honda, SEAT and Renault have been squabbling over for ages.
I've driven any number of high - performance cars around Suzuka Circuit in Japan, Circuit of the Americas in Texas, Laguna Seca in Cali, and a slew of other tracks across the country.
Australian motor museum — Peter May finds one where the Avon runs through Yorkshire / Churchill's Daimler — The just restored Daimler that Winston Churchill used in the early 30's / Howard's Way — We visit the London premises of C.A.R. Howars vintage car dealer / VSCC Lakeland trial — Tom Threlfall has been mud - plugging in the Lake District / Circuit des Remparts — Toby Ross reports on a race around the old walled town of Angouleme / Down - under London to Brighton.
I've had the pleasure of driving a load of factory race cars this year, including the Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE, and Acura NSX GT3, but this was my first time riding with a pro around a circuit as fabulous as Silverstone and a car as fabulous as the Mercedes - AMG GT3.
The Golf GTI Clubsport S posted a 7 min 47 second lap around the circuit in December 2016 — a blistering time on a par with cars like the 997 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Lamborghini Murcielago and BMW M3 GTS.
A «driving coach» function is integrated into the car, which can provide you, videogame - style, with ideal racing lines, braking, turn - in and acceleration points, and other useful data around your circuit of choice — helping you build up your skills just as a real instructor might.
A few laps in the car around the equally satisfying former Formula 1 Estoril circuit, which is short, narrow and fairly tight, backed this up.
The handling capabilities of this car are best experienced on a dedicated circuit, as it's frightening how quickly and effortlessly the car goes around bends.
After which comes the stirring sights and sounds of the Le Mans Legends storming around the circuit and reminding us of the iconic race cars that got us all interested in the famous 24 - hour race in the first place.
While we aren't able to tell you how the car will feel on U.S. roads, we were able to drive the super Nissan on some excellent twisty, challenging public roads around Sendai Hi - Land Raceway as well as on the circuit itself.
Straight from the factory, this car scorched circuits around the world, especially in the U.S. and Mexico.
We included the MP4 - 12C in eCoty 2011, based around the Portimão circuit in Portugal, and the car came with an unusual accessory — a chunk of the McLaren development team.
I'm pleased, but I'm also instantly concerned about the prospect of feeling my way around a strange circuit in an unfamiliar car on cold rubber.
It doesn't slow us down as we slalom a 2017 Volvo V90 Cross Country around a couple of tasty sports - rally car frozen lake circuits.
Now we have our first chance to listen to both of these performance cars, thanks to new videos in which the wild 493 - hp M4 GTS and the manic 365 - hp M2 slither around Britain's Anglesey Circuit.
The car leaps out onto the Anglesey Circuit and quickly turns its rear tires into smoke, sliding around the tight track with its water - injected engine roaring.
Wouldn't it be great,» said associate editor Tomalin, «if for the 100th issue we could get the fastest group of road cars we could possibly muster, together, on the same day, and see which is quickest around the West Circuit
For a car as multi-faceted and complex in character as a luxury GT, it would be foolhardy to draw any sweeping conclusions from a handful of laps around Anglesey Circuit.
We could find no better test for the car, which could be one of the least expensive ways into motorsport, than racing it for 24 hours around the Anglesey circuit in Wales.
We elect to run all the cars around the West Circuit with stability control off to reveal the clearest picture of on - limit behaviour.
If you happen to be Porsche factory driver Kévin Estre that means you can squeeze every last drop of pace from the car around the most unforgiving circuit of them all.
In fact, apparently it's as fast as an Enzo around the iconic circuit, which in turn makes it the fastest «mass produced» Ferrari to date, although on longer tracks the 599's extra power gives the bigger car the edge.
The effect wrought by those cars is starting to trickle down, into vehicles like the sharply dressed Viziv seven - seat SUV being trotted around the auto show circuit, as well as the all - new, more rugged Crosstrek, unveiled at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show.
The cars on - track at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion often are referred to as museum pieces, and Peter Mullin (Oxnard, Calif.), owner of the Mullin Automotive Museum, appreciates the irony of speeding around the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca circuit in his own priceless works of art.
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, August 13 - 16 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, will feature an abundance of sights and sounds of hundreds of historic race cars throttling around the race circuit, being worked on in the pits or seen driving through the bustling paddock.
It rides pretty comfortably around Jeep's circuit and its roads; performance - focused cars are often much stiffer and crash over bumps.
I was so intimidated by the prospect of driving Porsche sports cars around a racing circuit that I had butterflies in my stomach a full 24 hours before...
We would have loved to go into all the details, but only a couple of laps around the fast Buddh International Circuit in a machine of such potency isn't enough for a mere mortal like me to judge the car.
There are a few heavy brake zones around the circuit where our car is pretty strong.
It's clearly build to be a car to blast around on the Autobahn as opposed to ripping out lap after lap around a circuit, where the GT3 shines.
Driving it around the circuit, corner after corner, felt like as if the car was in perfect harmony with the driver.
Starting third and fifth in the GT1 class, the twin Compuware Corvettes were first and third at 10 p.m., with the leading car completing 86 laps around the 13.65 - kilometer circuit.
Now in its 29th season, the Pirelli World Challenge brings some of the most exotic machinery from around the world with the likes of Audi, Bentley, Chevrolet, Ferrari, Ford, Ginetta, Lamborghini, Maserati, McLaren, Mercedes - AMG, Panoz, Porsche and SIN Cars in a doubleheader Sprint races (50 minutes) weekend over the fast and demanding 2.459 - mile, 10 - turn permanent road circuit northeast of Toronto.
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