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In Initial impact, Simon Charlesworth tells the story of a rare survivor of this important Vintage tourer / / For this month's Auto - biography, Matthew Bell meets graphic designer, historic racer and lover of Americana Julian Balme to discuss his life behind the wheel / / The first saloon to use the legendary XK engine, Jaguar's Mk VII was a 100mph luxury car just as happy winning touring car races as cruising the home counties.

The first saloon to use the legendary XK engine, Jaguar's Mk VII was a 100mph luxury car just as happy winning touring car races as cruising the home counties.

I also enjoy car racing as well such as autocross and rally with my cars.

i work 9 - 5 as a receptionist, my main interest is car racing as being a marshal you can usually find me at a race event somewhere.

Our friends at Mobil 1 The Grid are as excited about the return of sports car racing as the fans, and they created a special video with Corvette Racing's Oliver Gavin to preview this weekend's 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona.

In PWC, GT Cup cars race as a separate class with its own championship alongside the GT3 cars.

DETROIT (Jan. 19, 2018)-- It's time for Corvette Racing's return to the biggest stage in North American sports car racing as it kicks off its 20th season of competition.

One year ago, the landmark 4.048 - mile, 14 - turn track served as the site of a coming together of U.S. sports car racing as the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and GRAND - AM Rolex Sports Car Series competed on the same weekend.

With over 2,300 Cup Cars built by Porsche since the car's introduction in 1993, our Porsche 911 GT Race Car proves that Porsche is as serious about sports car racing as it ever was.

But in its heyday, Thompson Raceway was as vital to sports car racing as Lime Rock.

It was an unfortunate weekend for all the American Le Mans Series entrants who had made the journey to France for the world's greatest sports car race as all of them experienced misfortune in some form or other, with many failing to see the chequered flag.

Not exact matches

Speaking of Google, two months ago the company announced its bid to get in on the car - as - rolling - smartphone race, saying it aims to complete its Android - vehicle integration system by the close of 2014.

Haub was reportedly skiing alone as he trained for a biennial endurance race before he then failed to return from an area thought to be close to Europe's highest cable car station.

«Bicycles were still the same as they had been forever, so I went into car racing,» he says.

Now I not only know all these things about myself and how I should train, my team can let me know during a race if I need to change not just how I'm driving the car but how I'm performing as an athlete.»

Other Chinese companies, such as Alibaba, Baidu, and DJI, are racing ahead in ecommerce and logistics; artificial intelligence and self - driving cars; and drone technologies.

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

The angular - looking concept version called Urus, unveiled for the first time in Beijing in 2012, had the same built - for - playboys appearance as Lamborghini's cars: sharp lines, wide rims, race - car aesthetics.

For 103 years, we've been naturally focused on creating cars, with the notable addition of motor racing as a core part of our brand story.

We look closely at the only part of the car to touch the race track, as well as the only business that pays for the right to supply the tyres to F1.

Starting in 2005, GoDaddy ran a series of racy Super Bowl commercials featuring women such as race car driver Danica Patrick and supermodel Bar Rafaeli — usually in some state of undress.

«All around sporty, whether it's tennis or baseball, soccer or car racing, [Mario] does everything cool,» says the profile on Nintendo of Japan's page (as translated by Kotaku).

It's about as sensible as trying to race your car with the parking brake on.

Most of the vehicles they race are on the small side — as small as a tenth the size of a regular car — making them cheap and disposable, said Anderson.

All eyes are on the 44 - year - old trailblazing tycoon as he races to save humanity, one reusable rocket, electric car and solar panel at a time.

This is likely what is shown in the teaser video that Faraday Future released for the then - unknown electric vehicle in mid-December, as the car was shown beating the Tesla Model S P100D in a drag race.

In some ways, Uber's headlong rush into the self - driving car race echoes Icarus, whose waxen wings melted as he soared toward the sun.

Meanwhile, as all the major ride companies and automakers race to develop self - driving car technologies, Google's driverless vehicles are already traversing the streets of Mountain View, California.

As the auto industry races to develop and build emissions - free vehicles, lithium - abundant countries such as Chile are set to emerge as valuable partners for the world's biggest car companieAs the auto industry races to develop and build emissions - free vehicles, lithium - abundant countries such as Chile are set to emerge as valuable partners for the world's biggest car companieas Chile are set to emerge as valuable partners for the world's biggest car companieas valuable partners for the world's biggest car companies.

After a race to the wire, the Toyota Camry beat the Honda Accord for the title of the nation's best - selling car in 1997, leaving the Ford Taurus in third place and ending its five - year reign as the top seller.

And in what could emerge as a self - driving - car arms race, the players are investing in, or partnering with, or buying outright the specialty companies most focused on the requisite hardware, software and artificial intelligence capabilities.

For example, companies have already begun implementing in medical devices, mobile devices, and even cars as the race to create a self - driving vehicle continues.

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

As mentioned in Chapter 5, the drinking alcoholic becomes increasingly like a car with the engine racing but the clutch disengaged.

The revised livery comes as a result of a sponsorship agreement with Austrian water technology company BWT, making it the first pink car in F1 since the 1992 Brabham BT60B as raced by Damon Hill.

If the track magnate who hosts five of the Indy Racing League's 11 events gets his way, Indy cars could be sporting fenders as early as next year.

The Mucke Motorsport team has raced with pink cars in the DTM for the last couple of years thanks to their association with the same sponsor, and this year will see the pink BWT - liveries expand into the German Formula 4 and GT championships as well.

The repairs seemed to do the trick as the second race went off without a hitch, though Maylander's car was too damaged to participate.

Senna didn't really want to drive for McLaren in 1993 as he didn't think the car (with its underpowered Ford engine) was worthy of his talents, and instead of signing a contract for the whole year famously drove for the team on a race - by - race basis.

As for the race itself, Fernando was pretty miffed that his car broke down because he was on for a decent result.

If Fernando gets a bit fed up 24 - hour races, then there is a 12 - hour race out there which is known for being just as challenging, bumpy, and car - breaking as any of the classics like Daytona or Le Mans - no, no the 12 Hours of Sebring, but 12 Hours of Lawnmower racing.

For the last eight races of the year there were two N177s on the grid as Theodore Racing (itself a major backer of the Ensign team) decided to run a car with Patrick Tambay at the wheel.

Even making it through wasn't a guarantee of starting the race, as with 30 cars in qualifying and only 26 spots on the grid there was still a pretty good chance of failing to qualify!

Stick around to watch them race at night for a bit as seeing LMP1 cars blast past GTs in darkness is something you really have to see to believe.

Magnussen had to watch on as the Italian driver, who raced twice for Sauber earlier this year, lost control of his car at Turn 11 and hit the wall.

In the race he even led for a few laps, but come the end had slipped to eighth as faster cars moved up the order.

Amazingly Pareja was OK, but it shows just what damage a drain cover can do to a race car if it hits it in the wrong way (as if there's a right way to hit one!).

The idea was that the fastest drivers and teams would have to do more overtaking and push harder throughout the race to beat the cars that didn't have to pit (remember that pit stops weren't as common at the time), making it more exciting to watch.

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.

Drivers need to have razor - sharp concentration to get the best lap times out of the car, especially those at the wheel of prototypes as they weave their way through slower racing machines.