Sentences with phrase «drive up to the race»

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Those teams have incredible real - time analytics, not just at the race venue, but also real - time, big data beamed from a car driving at up to 200mph on a race track on one side of the globe to the race team's headquarters in England.

Things pick up when Wade discovers a cheat to the race he's been trying to win with no success (driving the DeLorean from «Back to the Future,» Wade can never seem to get past King Kong to the finish line).

McDonald's Corp., losing the speed race to rivals and racking up customer complaints about slow service, is adding a third drive - thru window.

Should he end up getting the drive then it'll mean he gets to race against an F1 driver this year after all, what with Fernando Alonso driving for Toyota.

MOTOR SPORTS — WALT HANSGEN, West - field, N.J. throttle jockey, roared Briggs Cunningham's new Lister Jaguar up to 120 mph on straightaway, drove front - running race to win 80 - mile President's Cup feature with 75 - mph average at Upper Marlboro, Md..

He would not have driven at all, for it is a race much hated by most of the drivers, but young Cesare Perdisa gave up racing after the recent death of the Italian champion, Eugenio Castellotti, and De Portago, as a member of the Ferrari team, was asked to take Perdisa's 3.8 Ferrari.

A pioneer auto racing driver in his salad days, he coaxed a 1903, chain - driven Thomas Flyer up to the then spanking speed of 70 mph to win a Baltimore road race.

None will get rich driving one of these whining, wounded wrecks, yet the emotional poverty caused by giving up racing would be too much for any of them to endure.

He got two hits the first two times up, drove in a couple runs; we were off to the races.

«We'd drive there and race on Friday night, try to catch something else on Saturday night, maybe run up to Wichita, then drive home Sunday and I'd go to school on Monday.»

Even in those rare periods when Petty can't drive — such as the six weeks following his crash at Darlington — he will show up at races and sign hundreds of autographs, devoting to each a good 15 seconds worth of looping, swirling penmanship.

«It's such a cool place to be able to drive up through the countryside on a two - lane road and think about the race.

Unfortunately, he drove into the pit exit (or rather, he felt Dixon forced him into the pit exit) so race control penalised Bourdais by forcing him to give up the position.

LMP2 saw some frantic action in the early stages of the race but things eventually settled down and the G - Drive Oreca won, whilst the GTE - Pro category featured something of a battle royale, with the two AF Corse Ferraris spending most of the race up front, glued to each other's bumpers.

Starting off with some fairly basic stuff about racing lines, he then goes into how it feels to drive the car as he ramps up the pace.

Getting up that close to racing cars being driven in anger has to be up there as one of the absolute coolest fan experiences ever, especially when those cars are close to LMP1 levels of speed.

Hulkenberg later said that Magnussen's driving was him «just being an asshole, basically» and that he was going to bring up the issue with race director Charlie Whiting.

Even if he does want to race next year, how much motivation can he stir up to drive for a team that wanted to replace him with a teenager and will likely want to replace him with someone else in 2018?

It seemed pretty obvious that runaway Formula 2 champion and Ferrari junior driver Charles Leclerc was going to get a drive with Sauber this year, and indeed he's now been confirmed as a race driver for 2018, just days after the team announced a tie - up with Alfa Romeo.

Alcohol was not forbidden fruit for me as a teen, although drinking and driving was, and I think as a result I approached it better than many of my peers (who would jump in the car and race home from a party to make curfew, whereas I was encouraged to call home and say that I needed to sober up before driving).

I vividly remember the drive up to Inverness on Saturday 6 October, the day before the race.

The party doesn't have a Senate candidate to drive turnout (Democrats finished 1 - 2 in the June open primary), and depending on whether the presidential race is called early on the East Coast, California Republicans may have even less of an incentive to show up to vote.

This race is in part designed to drive up turnout that should trickle up for Grant.

Despite factors that should drive up interest — control of the board being at stake, big money flowing into some campaigns, and outside forces trying to steer the outcome — history shows School Board races rest in the hands of relatively few voters.

Helping seal the deal was a $ 1 million independent expenditure by anti-horse carriage advocates that flooded the airwaves early with their «Anybody But Quinn» message, driving up Ms. Quinn's negatives as voters began to tune into the race.

With an eye to driving up turnout on the GOP side, Nassau County Republican Party chairman Joe Mondello on Monday endorsed Donald Trump in the presidential race.

As the government and its international partners scramble to set up isolation wards to stem the outbreak and deliver protective gear to health workers, researchers on three continents are racing to figure out what is driving the unprecedented outbreak.

As Robert Ernst explains: «Whereas a racing car will often fail after completing a hundred superfast laps because the engine has overheated, a tractor (representing a normal body cell) will continue to drive up and down the field for a lot longer, but also a lot slower.»

A few years ago several individuals, including Yoseph Bar - Cohen, a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., posted a challenge to the electroactive polymer research community to drum up interest in the field: a race to build the first EAP - driven robotic arm that could beat a human arm wrestler one on one.

I genuinely felt like I had the drive to come up with new ideas and be productive — and not in some drug - induced way where it felt like my mind was racing — but in a way where I felt I was thinking with a calmer and clearer head than ever before.

RT: «Myself and my co-founder Duncan Francis were at a Spartan race in California in 2014, where thousands of people were queuing up to register and prove their identity with a passport or driving licence.

Despite solid driving physics, WRC 2 fails to make significant improvements on last year's game, or keep up with its racing rivals.

Built from the ground up to take advantage of Xbox One and the vast power of the cloud, «Forza Motorsport 5» features revolutionary Drivatar technology that learns how you and your friends drive, delivering real human behaviour and an ever - evolving network of opponents always ready to race — even when they're not online.

Female driven films used to drive the box office, and those films, in turn, often showed up in the Best Picture race.

Like many, I find it unusually difficult to drive in a racing sim from a third person perspective, and so I had no choice but to back out of the event entirely and load it back up, which can take several minutes.

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The tracks have been faithfully recreated with a lot of attention to detail and the physic engine bumped up to really give the feeling of true V8 race card driving.

Roads are littered with signs to drive through, other drivers to race and speed zones to get high scores in, not to mention old beat - up cars to find, clubs to conquer, planes and hot air balloon to race and Outpost challenges to complete.

This is signature Tarantino, here combustibly exploring America's original sin — slavery, and as race issues are still not only volatile and divisive (not to mention uncomfortably handled in most mainstream platforms, with most white folks tending to prize declawed and defused fodder like The Help and Driving Miss Daisy), it's safe to say that, whatever your hang - ups, Tarantino brings it to the foreground.

You (as a male or female racer) choose the class of car to drive and race against (up to 23 opponents) from a total of 460 in - game cars.

The manufacturer drives are a little less exciting — you basically just unlock these by racing in one make of car a handful of times, then get four races using that brand — but they're still a welcome way to break up the pace of your career.

The boys create a monster truck for Candace to practice driving, but soon her trial run turns into a massive racing rally; Doofenshmirtz tries to find investors for his line of monster trucks that are actual monsters; the boys set out on a high - seas advent (more...) The boys create a monster truck for Candace to practice driving, but soon her trial run turns into a massive racing rally; Doofenshmirtz tries to find investors for his line of monster trucks that are actual monsters; the boys set out on a high - seas adventure after learning about a mysterious pirate from their grandpa; Candace spies Perry and Dr. Doofenschmirtz up to their old tricks.

It has more cars (and cars everyday people can own) than any other racing sim EVER; easily has more diverse car classes (big rigs, ATVs, limos etc) than any driving sim to date; carries a venerable track list; is easier to pick up and play than any other driving sim; has graphics as good or better than any other racing sim, has a career that has good length and exciting challenges; and the best customization - both engine and graphics - of any car sim.

This latest game to fly the Hot Wheels franchise banner uses basically the same driving mechanics that the series has used for years, relying on a very basic arcade racing model with only a few slight race mode variations to change things up a bit.

This special bundle will be available at Gamestop and Amazon in the US and at Gamestop.ca in Canda. In DiRT 3, players get behind the wheel to race through the snow, rain and dirt, competing as a professional driver across three continents — from the forests of Michigan to the infamous roads of Finland and the national parks of Kenya. DiRT 3â $ ™ s stunning new Gymkhana mode, inspired by Ken Block's incredible freestyle driving event, allows gamers to test their skills in free sessions or challenge events where they must complete courses by performing spectacular stunts, racking up combos and earning style points. Players can also play or compete with friends in split - screen or online multiplayer modes, and become Gymkhana stars by publishing spectacular runs direct to YouTube.

To test drive vehicles before you purchase them you still need to set - up a free race event (which seems like a massive over-sightTo test drive vehicles before you purchase them you still need to set - up a free race event (which seems like a massive over-sightto set - up a free race event (which seems like a massive over-sight).

For example I was driving to a mission and was asked if I wanted to join a race, I hit the up arrow on the d - pad and a couple seconds later I was in a race.

Despite its impressive visuals and contemporary trappings, Payback's pick - up - and - play driving model harkens back to Need for Speed Underground and its Fast and the Furious - inspired street racing.

This car hasn't been driven in 40 years, and it's up to Law to get it back into racing shape before he can even leave the garage.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.