Sentences with phrase «car racing efforts»

HPD's Le Mans prototype sports car racing efforts have resulted in more than 70 victories and multiple American Le Mans Series engine, chassis, team, and drivers» championships.

Not exact matches

Except for Sportsman Briggs Cunningham's virtually single - handed efforts with homebred machines, the U.S. has lately let sports car racing honors go to overseas manufacturers by default.

Reigning WEC champion and former Red Bull «number 2 driver» Mark Webber drove his Porsche 919 Hybrid as part of the launch of the new Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid in an effort to demonstrate how technology from motor racing can transfer to road cars.

Jackie Stewart almost won the 1966 race on his debut before dropping to 9th with a car issue, and in 1967 was running third until a car issue again thwarted his efforts.

The FIA have put lots of effort into making sure the 2017 cars are faster and more exciting to watch and drive, but it seems like the impact this will have on the racing has been largely ignored until now, which is weird because, you know, it's a race.

However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they come from a quality - improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40

The US Race Car Pack is now available for Project CARS in a continual effort by Slightly Mad Studios to keep the WMD - powered game feeling new with monthly content.

Absolutely everything in Project CARS is evidence of Slightly Mad Studios» efforts to produce the most complete racing simulator to date.

Instead of a huge team effort to score big like in Oceans's Eleven, it's just Nicky playing the other race car owners.

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.

Adrian Newey, Red Bull Racing's Chief Technical Officer, says of the technical partners supporting the AM - RB 001 project: «Much like Formula 1, designing, engineering and building a car like the AM - RB 001 is a massive team effort.

Featuring that enlarged 6.8 - liter AMG - prepped V - 8, the Red Pig spearheaded Mercedes» newfound efforts in touring car racing at the time.

The NSX GT3 is a race car that allows a pro driver to fully extract the maximum performance potential against the best GT3 cars and drivers but still lets a gentleman racer feel comfortable behind the wheel and turn the lap times needed for a multi-driver endurance series effort to succeed.

The Orange Edition is the first in a line of new «Club Series» models in the GT86 range, which Toyota is using to celebrate the company's motorsport heritage both old and new - the latter comprising R3 rally and CS - Cup race versions of the compact sports car, among other efforts such as the Yaris WRC.

Although Mazda plans to sell a diesel version of the 6 in the U.S., the car's launch has been pushed back until spring 2014, explaining why Mazda had to use European cars for its racing efforts.

Unfortunately the dual - transmission arrangement wasn't reliable and GM officials chose Jim Hall's Chaparral effort to fly the flag in international sports car racing over Arkus - Duntov's creation.

All together good for a combined 950 hp, the LaFerrari's hybrid powertrain takes KERS knowledge from Ferrari's Scuderia racing efforts and puts it into an, er, street car.

The 2018 RS 5 is one of the first standard bearers of the new - look Audi Sport division, which has reorganized the brand's RS street car and customer race car efforts under one flag.

Other premieres during the week's festivities included: Acura's ARX - 05 DPi race car, which will contest the entire 2018 IMSA schedule in a two - car effort run by Team Penske; noted designer Ken Okuyama's Lamborgnini Aventador - based Code 0; and the 400R Concept, a resto - modded 993 - series Porsche 911 by fledgling outfit Gunther Werks.

Signatec, best known for its success in the LMP2 class in endurance racing (and the team behind Alpine's WEC efforts), will design, build, homologate and sell the A110 Cup cars.

Now, after more than a half - century of building road cars, the crew from Sant» Agata Bolognese is finally getting serious about motorsports, and the brand's entry - level offering, the $ 237,250 Huracán — the first model in company history engineered from the ground up for race duty — is at the center of its efforts.

It sits third, in fact, behind Ferrari and McLaren, but unlike either of those teams, Williams has never sold road cars to fund its racing efforts, instead — as the team itself puts it — it exists purely to race in the top echelon of motorsport, F1.

The pair of race cars will join the Rio 5 - Door B - Spec that debuted at the SEMA Show earlier this month as part of Kia's racing efforts with Kinetic Motorsports....

Nonetheless it was a great show, a tremendous duel to the finish, and a fantastic effort by the Corvette Racing team to bring both cars home.»

The Quadrifoglio (or four - leaf clover) was born when Ugo Sivocci painted one on his 1923 Targa Florio RL race car in an effort to break a string of second place finishes.

AUDI»S DIESEL RACE CAR Dieselgate has rocked Volkswagen's universe and some feared its racing efforts would suffer, but Audi just pulled the wraps off its brand - new LMP1 race car, the RACE CAR Dieselgate has rocked Volkswagen's universe and some feared its racing efforts would suffer, but Audi just pulled the wraps off its brand - new LMP1 race car, the RCAR Dieselgate has rocked Volkswagen's universe and some feared its racing efforts would suffer, but Audi just pulled the wraps off its brand - new LMP1 race car, the race car, the Rcar, the R18.

Corvette Racing first came to Le Mans in 2000 and has returned each year with a two - car effort.

The No. 4 Corvette C7.R of Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner and Robin Liddell led the Corvette Racing effort placed a disappointing fifth in the GT Le Mans class following a problem with the car's gearbox with less than three hours to go.

It was a monumental effort to have these cars ready for the Mid-Ohio race.»

Gavin was quick to point out that the crew had put in a tremendous effort in off - season development to prepare the cars for this race.

Maintaining continuity in the Kia Racing program's third - year, Kinetic Motorsports will build, develop and campaign the two Optima World Challenge cars while continuing Kia's Forte Koup efforts in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge.

Foster also led Dempsey Racing's efforts in establishing the technical partnership with Konrad Motorsport, a top European sports car racing team that also has experience in the RolRacing's efforts in establishing the technical partnership with Konrad Motorsport, a top European sports car racing team that also has experience in the Rolracing team that also has experience in the Rolex 24.

I'll be honest: I was supposed to drive a Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid during my trip to California to work at the 2017 Arse Freeze - a-Palooza 24 Hours of Lemons race at Sonoma Raceway, because I learned that racers are always shopping for minivans (as part of an effort to accomplish all street - car needs with as few vehicles as possible, leaving more room and money for race cars) when I took a Sienna to the B.F.E. GP race over the summer.

Today's result was a great effort by everyone at Corvette Racing on both cars.»

The latter's late - race effort was particularly stout as he passed three cars in the final five minutes.

Porsche says that the 2018 Panamera will see a significant technology ported over from its hybrid racing program — specifically its efforts in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where it won back - to - back overall victories this year and last with its 919 Hybrid race car.

It almost felt like an early arcade racing game where the steering wheel effort doesn't exactly seem to correlate with what your car on screen was doing.

Drissi also competed in the SCCA World Challenge series between 2006 and 2010; in 2003, he had begun competing in the sports cars of the American Le Mans Series, [2] where he would make his primary effort in racing outside of Trans - Am; he currently drives in the series for RSR Racing, competing in the Prototype Challenge class, co-driving an Oreca FLM09 with Bruno Junqueira and Roberto Gonracing outside of Trans - Am; he currently drives in the series for RSR Racing, competing in the Prototype Challenge class, co-driving an Oreca FLM09 with Bruno Junqueira and Roberto GonRacing, competing in the Prototype Challenge class, co-driving an Oreca FLM09 with Bruno Junqueira and Roberto González.

Thank goodness for Chevrolet's continuing racing efforts because this Stingray brims with technology adapted from the C6.R road race car.

Audi also announced that its motorsports vehicles and racing efforts are becoming increasingly electric along with its production cars.

The Corvette Racing program made its competition debut at Daytona in 1999 with a two - car effort.

After strong qualifying efforts by Richard Westbrook in the # 67 Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT, who snagged pole position, and Dirk Werner in the # 25 BMW M6 just 0.086 seconds behind, both cars eventually succumbed to on - track incidents that dropped them down the finishing order.

As the only automaker to mass - produce the rotary engine, Mazda continued efforts to improve power output, fuel economy and durability, and in 1991 took overall victory at 24 Hours of Le Mans with a rotary engine - powered race car.

ST Racing has confirmed a two - car BMW M4 GT4 effort for Pirelli World Challenge's new SprintX category.

For many years the Subaru Technica International team has been the only factory backed racing effort to compete in Japan's most prestigious form of motorsport when it would team up with the aftermarket parts manufacturer Cusco to campaign an entry into what used to be called the Japanese Grand Touring Car Championship or JGTC.

Today, HPD offers a line of race engines and other motorsports products for track applications from karting and Quarter Midgets to Indy cars and prototype sports cars, showcasing «fun to drive» products for professional, amateur and entry - level efforts.

The origins of the Camaro 1LE date back to 1988, when the package was first developed for the third generation car in order to make it more competitive in road racing efforts.

Mercedes» racing division has partnered with Riley Motorsports for a two - car, factory - supported effort.

«His management skills, diverse racing background and extensive experience will be a huge benefit for HPD and our racing efforts in the Verizon IndyCar Series, the Pirelli World Challenge, and endurance sports car series.»

He was racing in the top - five, then was hit violently at the chicane by Kevin Marshall's Lotus, and both cars were retired from the effort.