Sentences with phrase «driver championships last»

With a win in the GTE Pro class at Le Mans and runner - up finishes in the ALMS GT team and driver championships last year, America's premier production sports car team has focused on improving all aspects of its performance as it prepares its Compuware Corvette C6.R race cars for the 2012 campaign.

Engelhart races with Konrad Motorsport in Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, while Ineichen is also a Konrad team fixture as the reigning B - class champion in the German Porsche Carrera Cup — a series in which Engelhart finished second in the main driver championship last year.

Not exact matches

Now imagine how crazy it would be if it was the last round of the season and those two drivers were going head - to - head for the championship.

We are down to just eight drivers still alive for the championship with four races remaining, though most eyes are on Joey Logano, winner of each of the last three weeks.

He was third in the GP2 championship in 2015 and 2016 and has been actually been around F1 for ages, having joined Sauber as a test driver in 2014 and been a Renault tester for the last two seasons.

It's quite easy to see why Ferrari picked Leclerc up to join its Driver Academy at the start of last year, and he then went on to claim the GP3 championship.

The intent was to bring the performance level of the three manufacturers closer inline where one doesn't hold an overwhelming superiority like Toyota had last season where its drivers combined to win 16 of 36 races and saw Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch finish 1 - 2 in the championship and each lead over 2,000 laps.

The team has been on a run of three consecutive constructors» titles, with Lewis Hamilton taking two drivers» championships and Nico Rosberg picking up one last year.

And as we saw with Truex last year, if Harvick can amass such a volume of playoff points he then is a near lock to be among the four drivers vying for the championship at Homestead - Miami Speedway where the only way he wouldn't qualify is him completely collapsing in the semi-final round.

Those «exceptional drivers» are likely to be Antonio Giovinazzi, who impressed in GP2 last year and as a sub for Pascal Wehrlein at the start of this year, and Charles Leclerc, runaway championship leader in Formula 2 and a seriously hot prospect for the future.

Whilst all eyes were on the dramatic, tyre - bursting conclusion to the championship up at the front, Tambay came home in last place, 12 laps down and unclassified - not a fitting end from the former Ferrari driver and two - time race winner.

The 2017 season had been over for about 30 minutes last month when Brad Keselowski, one of title eligibles who fell short of beating Martin Truex Jr. in the championship finale, rationale explained why the 2018 Monster Energy Cup Series season presented significant hurdles to himself and other Ford - powered drivers.

Though Alonso had won the drivers» title at the last race, McLaren and Renault were still fighting for the constructors» championship.

Ferrari scored their last championship success with the Raikkonen - Massa partnership in 2008 and Raikkonen is the team's most recent drivers» champion.

Because of Ocon's lack of experience I wouldn't say that their driver line - up is as strong as last year, but Ocon is not a bad replacement for Hulkenberg and should provide a challenge for Perez but I expect Perez to finish ahead in the championship.

For the last of our mini-interviews, Anthony Davidson talks about his strong desire to win, and the excitement he has at taking on some of the world's best drivers and teams in one of motorsport's fastest growing championships.

Snatching a world drivers» championship on the last corner.

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 two won the 2012 ALMS drivers» championship, and opened the 2013 season with a victory at Sebring last month.

Following a victory in the last round at Watkins Glen International, Corvette Racing will arrive at the circuit formerly known as Mosport International Raceway with championship leads in the TUDOR Championship's GT Le Mans (GTLM) driver, team and manufacturer standings.

No other factory program can claim the number of victories and championships during the last 20 years as Corvette Racing — 106 worldwide victories, 12 Manufacturer and Team championships, and 11 Driver titles.

Last year's victory for Olly and Jan was instrumental in setting them towards their runner - up finish in the GT drivers» championship.

The No. 3 Corvette placed second in last year's Petit Le Mans, and a similar showing Saturday would give Corvette Racing a drivers» championship for the ninth time since 2001.

They won both the drivers and manufacturers championship in the Touring Car category last year with race - prepped versions of these things.

I've been working for this for the last three years, and finally won the drivers championship.

However, the Off - Road Masters varies the gameplay further by introducing smash - up to cross country events which sees the player attempting to avoid all of the red boards in favour of driving through the green boards on the way to setting a fast lap time to compete with another 7 competitor's lap times, while elimination is integrated into wild rush events as the driver in last place is eliminated every 30 seconds; time attack is included in multiple event types such as speed cross and wild rush as the player is tasked with setting the fastest lap time in competition with 7 drivers and only 3 laps to set the pace, alongside championships including differing event types.

Audi team driver Lucas di Grassi — who nearly won the championship last season — says that all this new manufacturer competition makes a «big difference» for why he races in the series.

Mercedes also currently fields the most successful team in Formula One — the company has won the last two manufacturers» championships, and team driver Lewis Hamilton has won the drivers» trophy in both of those years as well.