Sentences with phrase «car racing season»

The sports car racing season begins this weekend in Central Florida as Corvette Racing takes on the best in the American Le Mans Series at the 60th Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring fueled by Fresh from Florida.

The 2010 car racing season officially kicks off this Saturday with the Grand - Am Rolex 2...

Meanwhile, van Overbeek begins his 15th sports car racing season and second with co-driver Ed Brown in the No. 02 Tequila Patrón HPD.

Not exact matches

Daniel Ricciardo isn't holding out much hope for racing to be better at other tracks this season because the current generation of cars are too big and too aerodynamically complex

The March CG891 was the second F1 car designed by Adrian Newey (after the previous year's March 881) and raced in the 1989 F1 season.

His single season at Renault was the most competitive car he raced, though he did manage nine podiums during his career - three of which were on home turf in the USA.

This was the first race without a minimum pit stop time and thankfully things went pretty smoothly - well, unless your name is Lucas di Grassi, who suffered a car issue shortly after pitting and finishes the first third of the season with no points to his name - not great for the defending champion...

There were still some epic performances though, notably at the final race of the season in Japan when Alonso put in an absolute giant - killer of a weekend, starting with qualifying, where he put his car 18th on the grid.

The Virtual Safety Car period and the following real safety car period did bunch the pack up mid-race, but the fact that a Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull were all covered by seven seconds at the chequered flag indicates much closer racing between the three teams this seasCar period and the following real safety car period did bunch the pack up mid-race, but the fact that a Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull were all covered by seven seconds at the chequered flag indicates much closer racing between the three teams this seascar period did bunch the pack up mid-race, but the fact that a Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull were all covered by seven seconds at the chequered flag indicates much closer racing between the three teams this season.

Although its car, the P261, was now into its third season of competition, Graham Hill finished regularly on the podium and Jackie Stewart won a race.

It's a pity Timo Glock's Toyota isn't one of the classic cars, because then we could all recreate the famous move on the last corner of the last lap of the last race of the 2008 season which ensured Hamilton beat Massa to the title in his second year of F1.

Unless you're a seasoned veteran of watching the race or you actively make notes of what every car is doing, you won't be able to fully understand everything that's going on all of the time.

After what seemed like ages of waiting over the off - season, the car launches have come and gone in no time at all and before you know it, we'll be in Melbourne, getting hyped up for the first race.

Last year Ferrari decided to opt out of sports - car racing, after a multitude of very successful seasons, and concentrate on Grand Prix racing instead.

By race time, Porsche, with the four three - liter, 320 - horsepower cars, and nine other privately owned 2.2 - and two - liter starters, was heavily favored and the race began for them just as the season had in Florida.

When the race resumed Truex quickly passed the three cars ahead of him and pulled away for his third win of the season and sixth of his career.

A sign of the times: A.J. Foyt, arguably the biggest name in the history of Indy car racing, will field a NASCAR Winston Cup team next season and is looking for a driver.

Three years removed from a stellar short - track career running 30 - mile, dirt - oval sprints, Bowyer has exhibited a veteran's car - control skills and is one of only three drivers in the top 12 to have finished all 18 races this season.

At the 2010 season finale in Abu Dhabi Alonso was in prime position to win his third title and a first with Ferrari, however an early safety car turned the race on its head and Sebastian Vettel took a comfortable victory.

On the last lap of the last race of the 1996 IndyCar season, Alex Zanardi launched his car down the inside at the fabled Corkscrew corner and took the lead and the victory - but not without running off the track to do so.

So from next season the cars will have two different power modes available, both of which the drivers have to use at some point during a race.

There will be no more mid-race car swaps for season five, but the races will be shorter to compensate

Abt has been in Formula E from the very beginning, but it took him until the second race of this season to finally grab his maiden win... only to have it taken away from him because his Audi Sport car had the wrong stickers on it.

The FE update brings the Hong Kong ePrix circuit to Real Racing 3 and the electric single - seater car, with three teams from this season.

The awesome McLaren MP4 / 4 will be available as part of a new DLC pack, dubbed the eBay Motors car pack, the car that Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost took to 15 wins and 15 pole positions in the 16 - race 1988 Formula One season.

There are a variety of game modes (including quick race and full season), while — of course — featuring all of the 2016 cars, drivers, teams and tracks.

Judging by the way the rest of the season had gone the next cars you'd expect to finish would be the Williams, but they'd made the mistake of pitting in a race where running a zero - stopper seemed to be the way to go.

1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve put in some impressive performances and could have scored points or even podiums on a few occasions, but the car just kept letting him down; he didn't finish a race until the 12th round of the season!

Montoya, the 1999 CART champion and 2000 Indianapolis 500 champion, has returned to open - wheel racing full time, driving the No. 2 car for Penske Racing in the Verizon IndyCar Series this season after seven years in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Sracing full time, driving the No. 2 car for Penske Racing in the Verizon IndyCar Series this season after seven years in NASCAR's Sprint Cup SRacing in the Verizon IndyCar Series this season after seven years in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series.

It is at Penske Racing where Montoya will join Will Power and current Izod IndyCar points leader Helio Castroneves to form a three - car car team for the 2014 season.

His F1 team, McLaren - Honda, has struggled with car reliability this season, and if there was ever a Monaco Grand Prix — one of the best races on the F1 calendar — to miss, this would be the one.

Tagliani has been competing in Grand - Am since his departure from Barracuda Racing in early August and the sport's relatively short off - season could mean that he remains in sports cars next season, with the newly merged United Sports Car Championship.

The Aston Martin Vantage GTE has been racing in the WEC since 2012, but after this season it's finally being pensioned off as a new version of the car replaces it in GTE - Pro in 2018 (although it will continue to compete in GTE - AM).

The car only qualified on three occasions and 11 races into the season, the team folded.

The 1992 British Touring Car Championship was an incredibly close run thing, and come the final race of the season at Silverstone three drivers were in with a chance of taking the title: Will Hoy, Tim Harvey, and John Cleland.

To celebrate six seasons of service, Aston Martin Racing has given all three of its cars a special celebration livery for the final race of 2017, which takes place this weekend in Bahrain.

Which is why when it was announced last month that he would not be returning to Earnhardt - Ganassi Racing next season, it was logical to think Montoya would either return to open - wheel racing or compete in sports cars full -Racing next season, it was logical to think Montoya would either return to open - wheel racing or compete in sports cars full -racing or compete in sports cars full - time.

The sport got its first look at the new restart rule during the second race of the opening round of the season at Hockenheim after an incident on the first lap brought out the safety car... and it made for an epic run down to the first corner.

It's understood that Toyota are looking to run three cars in 2017, at least for the first three races of the season at Silverstone, Spa and Le Mans.

Force India will also run with a pink ribbon on its cars, like it has done in a few other races this season.

When Bill Elliott — the only driver before Gordon to win the bonus — bagged the Winston Million in 1985, it marked stock car racing's biggest payday, quadrupling the prize for the Winston Cup season championship.

Afterpassing by several of the Chevys that Johnson will race this season, Knausexcitedly pointed toward the body shop, at a car that was sitting in a circleof bright light.

Hamilton and Bottas will race for Mercedes this season and the team's 2017 F1 car will be revealed on the 23 February.

Mercedes protégé Wehrlein moved up to F1 last year with Manor following several seasons in the DTM touring car series, becoming its youngest race winner in 2015.

With he and several other drivers out of contract at the end of the year Alonso is seeking a race - winning car, and has made it clear he'll leave McLaren if he doesn't think things will improve for next season.

The Frenchman had a fabulous career in CART Champ Cars, winning four championships and 31 races including two on ovals, and spent a season - and - a-half in Formula One.

The Pocono IndyCar weekend fueled by Sunoco in July was a turning point in the season for Scott Dixon and the entire Ganassi Racing operation, as all three cars came from the second half of the field and used strategy to finish the race sweeping the top three.

«I'm delighted that the team has now formally announced that I will continue to race for them next year, because I'll be able to approach the second half of my rookie season with total focus on the job in hand: namely getting the very most I can out of my car, my engineers, and everything and everyone around me.

Conwright joined Brisentine's VMB Driver Development the first week of March — just 10 days before the Formula Car Challenge's first West Coast race of the season at Sonoma Raceway.

As well as the cars getting faster thanks to a boost in power, the fourth season of the all - electric series has its largest calendar ever, with 14 races.