Sentences with phrase «car racing successes»

Embodied in its DNA is the know - how acquired in the numerous car racing successes that Audi has achieved over the years.

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Sports - car racing is the best sports - business success story hiding in plain sight: IMSA, the premier sanctioning body for sports - car competition in North America.

McLaren delivered a race winning car in 2007 but while paired with surprisingly successful rookie Lewis Hamilton, Alonso did not take the Brit's success well.

Gordon has suffered in the eyes of stock car racing's die - hard fans because of his combination of wholesomeness and instant success.

When I was winning DTM races in 2015, the success ballast put on the car made it one of the toughest experiences I've had so far.»

The car had raced with success in Grands Prix in the late 1940s and driver Louis Rosier figured it might make a decent endurance racer.

Audi has already paid homage to how much Le Mans has had an influence on their road cars, and now there's a video directly celebrating years of success in endurance racing.

Sadly, this by - product of the world's current obsession with illegal racing, ugly street cars being given garish makeovers by plebeians and all things neon or blacked out can do little to impact upon the success of other racers.

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Like many, I hope Aaron Paul finds success, but his post - «Breaking Bad» big screen career gets off to a lackluster start in Need for Speed, an unintelligent and underwhelming racing movie that won't do much for anyone who isn't riveted by the sights and sounds of fast cars in motion.

Following the critical acclaim and success of Project CARS — one of the highest - rated racing games of its generation — Project CARS 2 shifts up a gear with a host of new and improved features and gameplay:

Built and raced by driver Jim Downing, a racer who found tremendous success with Mazda rotary - powered race cars, this car features a English - engineered Argo chassis mated to a 350 - hp, two - rotor engine.

These 250 GTOs are prized above all other cars for their design, history, performance, and racing success.

Developed by Prodrive (which, aside from its rallying and racing success, also later worked wonders on the Alfa Romeo Brera), changes focused on improving the car's handling further.

Having already enjoyed rally and racing success with the Escort and Sierra Cosworth, Ford developed the mighty RS200 rally car as a response to all the overpowered, overboosted mid-engine specials trouncing traditional powertrain configurations in Group B.

Buzzetta raced the car around Europe, until Porsche's competition department took notice of his success and signed him on as a factory driver.

With over half of the planned 2014 production having been sold, Lister's decision to remake the hand - built race and sports car has been a great success.

BMW's Z4 GT3 car has enjoyed plenty of success in GT racing since its debut in 2010, but BMW has now announced it will replace the Z4 with a GT3 - spec M6 from 2016.

Judge's Eye View — Nick Georgano's photographs of the European Concours d'Elegance / Lotus Blossoms — Anthony Pritchard relates how the Lotus Mark VIII set Colin Chapman on the road to success / Austin Healey Sprite — Buyer's Guide / Austin Seven Ulster Rebuild / Pasquino's Little Gems — David Tarallo recalls the postwar Fiat - based sports - racing cars built by Pasquale Ermini / Closed Circuit Centenary — The 1902 Circuit des Ardennes was the first large scale motor race of its kind to be run over a closed circuit.

As you know, Audi has had great success with its gasoline - and diesel - powered race cars at Le Mans over the past 13 years, and this year its R18 e-tron Quattro, its first hybrid race car, competed alongside the TDI R18 Ultra.

Acetylene lighting — The story of the development of acetylene for vehide lighting is recorded for us by Dr. C. Brooks / Mercedes at Indianapolis — Martin Flower writes about the successes of Mercedes racing cars at the speedway from 1911 to 1957 / Vauxhall 30/98 — A superb 1922 example of the delectable E-type is described by David Hawtin / The Don Garlits Collection — Zoe Harrison recently visited a fascinating old - car museum in Florida USA / La Buire — made in Lyon — The French La Buire company made their first petrol - engined car in 1904.

The 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA can be considered something of a spiritual successor, achieving great success in touring car racing with Autodelta.

Ferdinand Porsche's Greatest Personal Victory — As the designer of racing cars for Austro Daimler, Mercedes and Auto Union, Ferdinand Porsche would enjoy many successes in a long career.

Buy the Besst and get it — Dennis Harrison writes about a mid-twenties Australian assembled car that failed to become a great success / Early»30s Morris Minors — The story of two Minors — a coupe and a two - seater — is recounted by David Hawtin / Autocrat — Michael Worthington - Williams on the history of a little - known car made in the Midlands in the period around World War One / American Steam Tour — A report by Mick Tuxworth on the 1991 American Steam Car Tour / Pietro Bordino — racing driver — This gifted Italian has been called «the greatest driver of the twenties&raqucar that failed to become a great success / Early»30s Morris Minors — The story of two Minors — a coupe and a two - seater — is recounted by David Hawtin / Autocrat — Michael Worthington - Williams on the history of a little - known car made in the Midlands in the period around World War One / American Steam Tour — A report by Mick Tuxworth on the 1991 American Steam Car Tour / Pietro Bordino — racing driver — This gifted Italian has been called «the greatest driver of the twenties&raqucar made in the Midlands in the period around World War One / American Steam Tour — A report by Mick Tuxworth on the 1991 American Steam Car Tour / Pietro Bordino — racing driver — This gifted Italian has been called «the greatest driver of the twenties&raquCar Tour / Pietro Bordino — racing driver — This gifted Italian has been called «the greatest driver of the twenties».

Then came mid-engine, street - legal racing cars like the Porsche 550 Spyder and 904 Carrera GTS; the former most famous for claiming the life of actor James Dean in 1955 and the latter as a car raced in the early 1960s with great success by drivers like Ben Pon, the builder of Bernardus Lodge.

For years the Supra basked in all sorts of motorsports successes that encompassed drag racing, touring car racing, rallying, drifting, and road racing series like IMSA, JGTC, and Le Mans.

Jaguar has a long history of success in sports car racing, endurance and touring cars.

We're still waiting for the official arrival of the diesel - powered Mazda6 in U.S. showrooms, but that's not stopping Mazda from actively campaigning diesel - powered race cars in the U.S.. Following the success of the Skyactiv - D - powered Mazda6 in the Grand Am GX series, Mazda is entering a prototype race car in the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship.

Though the GTR Long Tail never went on to achieve such great success — although a second and third place finish at the ’97 Le Mans event wasn't far off — the super-rare road - going race car is understandably effective at weakening the knees of motorsport fans.

From there, the company went racing — even signing Niki Lauda as a driver, and later Hans Stuck — and achieved plenty of success in touring car events.

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.

Only 24 examples of the Vulcan will be built — a number inspired by Aston Martin's success in 24 - hour endurance racing — and each commands an asking price of # 1.8 m. Headline news is of course the car's 7.0 - litre V12 engine, which contrary to popular trend is naturally aspirated and does without a turbocharger or complex hybrid system.

Looking to extend Audi's FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) success during the 2013 season into next year, the R18 e-tron quattro racing car will receive made a number of changes and improvements in response to new technical regulations imposed on LMP1 vehicles.

We suspect not even Amédée Gordini — born 1899 and, from the»50s, mastermind behind Renault's racing success and breathed - on road cars, starting with the R8 — would have been able to extract anything worthwhile.

The N420 is available in three colors that recall the success of Aston's N24 racing cars — «Rose» yellow, «Kermit» green, «Elwood» blue — as well as traditional British Racing racing cars — «Rose» yellow, «Kermit» green, «Elwood» blue — as well as traditional British Racing Racing Green.

Williams has enjoyed plenty of success outside Formula 1, too, tackling everything from Group B rally monsters to Le Mans - winning prototypes, achieving considerable success in touring cars, and working with the newly reformed Jaguar Racing to engineer one branch of motorsport's future: Formula E cars.

Fitted with the sequential Selespeed gearshift — a racing legacy — Alfa Romeo's new sedan was a huge commercial success; it would be awarded «Car of the Year» in Europe in 1998.

Launched at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, AMR amplifies and accentuates the sporting prowess of the British marque's road cars, by taking inspiration or direct influence from Aston Martin Racing's participation in the FIA World Endurance Championship; a series with which the marque tasted world championship success with factory drivers Nicki Thiim and Marco Sørensen just last season.

The enterprise began to produce petrol engines but after the success of a small number of race cars built on contract by Wilhelm Maybach for Emil Jellinek, it began to produce the Mercedes model of 1902.

The pair branded their new company Aston Martin after the Aston Hill speed hillclimb in Buckinghamshire, where the Singer cars had found success and where Martin had previously raced.

The show car, which won't be produced, celebrates «the heady racing success of the BMW 3.0 CSL in 1975,» BMW said.

Aston Martin's history began in Kensington, England in 1914, when the company's founders, Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin, decided to build on their success selling Singer racing cars and launch their own sophisticated line of refined vehicles.

Both Briscoe and Pagenaud are known for their successes in both open - wheel and sports car racing.

The great success of our involvement with the SLS AMG GT3, which is now used by customer teams on five continents, means that we are very confident: in the popular four - cylinder segment too, we want to offer interested customer teams a competitive, near - series racing car with a high level of safety.»

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Alfa has a glorious competition history: F1 dominance in the 1950s, endurance racing success in the 1970s and an almost constant presence in production - based race series with cars like the original Giulia, the 155 and the 156.

Along the way, names like Bob Bondurant, Pete Brock and Allen Grant contributed to the car's success, further cementing their places among the racing elite.

That win set the tone for our new Monte Carlo SS race car success for 2006.

The GT1 Championship Edition (Regular Production Option GT1) commemorates the success of Corvette Racing and the Corvette C6.R: • Eight American Le Mans Series GT1 manufacturers and team championships • Five - time 24 Hours of Le Mans class champions • 74 victories in international sports car competition

In my recent test drive of a special 2002 TT American Le Mans commemorative edition (which celebrates the car's success on the Le Mans sports - car racing circuit), the car turned heads wherever I went, and most people had no idea what it was.