Sentences with phrase «done road races»

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There are TONS of races you can do down the road!

Even after the Tour du Vietnam, a country - long road race, died out more than a decade ago, South Vietnamese cyclists continued to compete internationally, and this January the Saigon government revived the Tour.

14 Robby Gordon won both road races last year; now he needs to GORDON get better on the tracks that don't have righthand turns.

Obviously, aside from the huge social and financial commitment needed to set up the infrastructure, re-profile roads, re-lay Tarmac, fit miles of Armco, build grandstands, pay for race - hosting fees and gain approval and sign - off from the FIA, we don't see any barriers to our vision.

... The bonehead things that I've done — I've had my penalties in the race where what does it really matter on Lap 80 if you gain a spot on pit road since you have so many more laps.»

Millions of fans look to NASCAR drivers for the proper way to conduct themselves on the road, and if NASCAR and the race teams don't take a DUI charge seriously by issuing a severe penalty, it sends the message that drunk driving is somehow not that bad.

The campaign does not include newly departed races in Brazil and Baltimore but does feature the inaugural road course race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

As Martin Truex Jr. rejoiced in winning a race he thought he had lost, Brad Keselowski came to terms with losing a race he thought he had won, Kyle Busch threw a haymaker at Joey Logano setting off a fracas breaking out on pit road, Jimmie Johnson did something unusual last Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Dale Coyne himself has said that he's had at least 30 drivers call about the vacant seat, and that he'd like to take on a driver who can do both the road and oval races.

This wasn't the first time Webber has driven racing machinery on public roads, having done a demo run across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a Williams F1 car in 2005, and across the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne for Red Bull in 2011.

If a deal can be reached then Maldonado will only do the road and street courses (which make up most of the calendar anyway) as he doesn't want to race on ovals.

This is setting up to be a frantic race for the final five playoff spots in the West, and Minnesota could find itself on the outside looking in if it doesn't come up with a solution to its struggles on the road.

And all Harvick could do was admit he had blundered, having to stomach a ninth - place finish in a race he should've won but didn't thanks to a pit road speeding penalty with 14 laps remaining.

«If we want to officiate it with fan pictures — if you want to officiate it with pictures during the race and call people to pit road and do those types of things, from a NASCAR standpoint I am fine with that.

I decided to make my pass on the last fire road of the race (Not the finishing stretch) If I didn't make that move, I would have possibly finished with a second place.»

«I will do the occasional track session, mostly as power strength training, but mainly its road all the way this season until the British national track champs in September when as well as racing we will look at the numbers and see how my body is performing on the track.

On the road to victory today Don't Touch became the the first three - year - old horse to win this race in 13 years.

If Manchester City do manage to win this match, it will more or less mean the end of the road for most, if not all clubs who were trying their best to make something out of the title race.

If you are planning on taking part in a competitive bike race, there is a good chance that you will need to add on a full race licence while purchasing your membership, particularly if you are going to be doing road or track racing.

Michael Steele, who has been battling his own bad news this cycle, made clear through staff that he didn't want to fund New York races if Steve Levy was at the top of the ticket, and the blowback was an early sign of road bumps for the «Levy experiment.»

Don't rain on my parade: Peachtree Road Race Expo visit

Neon Heights is another good one, Mid Boss: Fire Bro.Stage Boss: Koopa Kid.Koopa's Tycoon Town (driving on the road now instead of walking on the sidewalk) is another good one, Mid Boss: Goomba, Stage Boss: Red Koopa (again)(note: Goomba and red koopa boss battles will have you racing them to collect the most coins and deposit them to own the most hotels before time runs out) Eternal Star should be the best board, Mid Boss: Lakitu (defeat him by using star power from blocks) Stage Boss: Rosalina (this is more like a donkey kong and diddy kong mini game, except no bananas or barrels.You will be in outer space walking on planets then you can go in the launch star when you're done collecting star bits and you will be flying in space and you can move anywher to collect star bits you can even land on a planet while in space then collect star bits from there and you'll see rosalina floating around some places.Whoever collects the most star bits win and rosalina is not fighting you.)

With rumors that «The Road» may be bumped to 2009, (not Harvey Weinstein's choice of release year) and «The Soloist» already moving on, along with the rumblings that «Frost / Nixon» does indeed lack that edge I wrote about not so long ago, one can feel the Oscar race shifting day to day.

Although it didn't pick up any awards, «Mad Max: Fury Road» had the most nominations with three in the best picture, best director, and best cinematography categories, further solidifying its shaky but continuously recognized position in the awards season race.

If you think there's wiggle room here, take note: Because Colin Firth and Morgan Freeman are still solidly in this race, even though Tom Ford's embarrassing impersonation of Wong Kar - wai throughout A Single Man and Clint Eastwood's dully exploitative pushing of a Mandela - as - Obama message in his elegantly composed Afterschool Special Invictus didn't do either actor any favors, it's probably unlikely that Viggo Mortensen will sneak in for The Road, which has unfairly gotten less love this award season than those two films.

Get airborne, race anywhere and do anything with Vaughn's bespoke off - road 1969 Ford Bronco «Brocky,» a 4 × 4 600bhp ticket to outrageous, vertical - flying fun, burn through some rubber and drift in billows of tire smoke with Vaughn's heroic 960bhp Ford Mustang RTR Spec — 5D, and get a serious adrenaline - rush with the Mustang ’66 RTR, a big - block V8 Trans Am - runner designed and tested by Vaughn and his RTR team.

I obviously don't race off - road whips for a living, but he each vehicle feels realistic regarding speed, weight, and functionality; a noteworthy feature I recognized during my time with Monster Energy Supercross, I might add.

So, does Mantis Burn Racing live up to classics such as Super Off Road?

Like a Porsche 911 GT3, it really does feel akin to a race car that has been lightly disguised for road use, and although it sounds daft, you can easily imagine yourself rolling through the gates and parking it on the start line for the N24.

Jimmie Johnson, who tallied the runner - up position in Cup last season did the same thing at the end of this particular race, finishing second in his second try at this long and perilous activity around Daytona's 3.56 - mile road / oval course.

If you're going to include slicks and road illegal cars, non of these would make the list for all the many race cars that have done he ring under 6:35

I know a lot of people want to know, did you design a race car and make it a road car?

Please, if you're going to pretend to write about the technical aspects of converting a racing engine to the road, at least do the minimal research.

About # 150 for the day but covers you for all crash / fire / mechanical drivetrain damage the works (oh yes don't bother with race slicks at all road legal semi slicks best bet).

These are road / track cars and will be entering all sorts of race series as TVR has always done.

Despite a drop of nearly 1000 pounds compared to the 3,803 - pound road version, the NSX GT3 doesn't feel insanely fast in a straight line, but I quickly gather that the race car has serious pace.

It was comprehensively beaten by the GT3 RS in evo 150, and, unlike the CSL, it doesn't exist to facilitate BMW's entry into a specific race series — although it is pretty much a road - going version of the GT4 race car.

Road Rage — Roger Bell does battle with an unspoiled example of Aston Martin's 1950s warhorse the DB3S / Bugatti Type 46s Exposed — Another in our exclusive series of James Allington colour cutaway drawings this time with descriptive text by the author / Nearly Great part II — HRG authority Ian Dussek concludes his enthralling two - part article on the Twin Cam with his driving impressions of a rare survivor / Imperial Splendour — Walter Chrysler's 1930 Imperial was hardly radical but was the epitome of sound luxury car design / The Eternal Bridesmaid — Jan Norbye feels Benz deserves more laurels than it usually gets / Glorious Goodwood — Seen through the lens of renowned racing photographer Alan Smith / Distant Memory — Michael Worthington - Williams digs deep to research the histories of three obscure but tantalising British marques of the 1920s.

It's a zero - compromises speed master, and if you drive it, you don't have to give two cents of a care about road racing — but you'll understand instantly why it still matters.

The new Mercedes E-class is one of those cars that you will never race to the keys for a thrilling drive on your favourite road, but it's possible it will be the car you have for those journeys that don't require granular steering feel and whip - crack throttle response.

As I left the circuit, driving the R8 coupe road car from earlier in the day and listening to its exhaust crack on the overrun, I didn't feel far removed from the race car I had climbed out of an hour earlier.

Despite any pretense about being race cars, even the meanest street cars do not behave like true race cars, and they spend 99 percent of their time on public roads.

Driven in the twisting mountain roads above the seaside resort town of Quinta do Lago — where the late Ayrton Senna owned a home he planned to return to after that fateful 1994 F1 race at Imola — the C450 feels like no kind of compromise at all.

Since the regen slows the car at a rate of about 0.2 g, you don't use the friction brakes often in normal driving, but I finally gave the AP Racing brakes a workout tearing down the back roads.

I've done this for my kid on his dirtbikes, which he constantly dropped and his road racing bike, which he constantly crashed.

Yes, the engines can be found in the off - roaders from Coventry and you might be able to swap a steering wheel or wing mirror, but Bowler doesn't chip away at a standard road car to find the race car underneath.

Some are roaring around the two road racing tracks that have been built (a third extension is under construction), and others are doing an autocross that's been set up in the vast paddock.

To do so, I've brought along a rig tailor - made for the job: Toyota's all - new 2016 Tacoma pickup outfitted by Toyota Racing Development (TRD) in burly Off - Road trim.

In some ways, the sport does remain true to its original intent, which was to be a road circuit race in whatever conditions nature and the road threw up.

On the racing side this is easy to do, but when you start working with the road car guys — when you need to make it fit on the production line — it gets complicated.»