Sentences with phrase «driver in car racing»

As a representative and driver in car racing, and as an expert in chassis and powertrain tuning in vehicle development, he also put the final touches on the new Golf GTI together with the experts of team «Hackenberg».

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Driver loafers were historically designed with race car drivers and motorists in mind, but Cole Haan's nubuck pair were made to be seen.

The company has sponsored NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon too — his race car features a prominent Fix Auto logo — and it has even purchased digital billboards in the popular video game series Need for Speed.

(Kyle also drives in select races in the Xfinity Series and owns a sprint car team with Justin Marks, an entrepreneur driver I profiled here.)

While Tesla's Autopilot driver - assist feature is frequently impressive, and a huge edge in the race to true self - driving cars, one Tesla driver was recently reminded we're not quite to Autonomy Heaven yet.

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

No, that's just the race car driver in me.

Starting in 2005, GoDaddy ran a series of racy Super Bowl commercials featuring women such as race car driver Danica Patrick and supermodel Bar Rafaeli — usually in some state of undress.

In 2011, he and several partners (including former race car driver Ron Fellows) established Canadian Motorsport Ventures, a company that bought Mosport International Raceway, Canada's largest automotive racetrack located east of Toronto.

His legacy as one of the world's greatest race car drivers in history lives on in a film directed by Asif Kapadia.

Junior used the racing and car building knowledge he acquired while bootlegging to become one of the most successful drivers and owners in racing history, culminating with his induction into the 2010 inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

To expand its market, Upper Deck is interested in manufacturing cards of famous race car drivers.

The drivers rushed back to their cars and prepared to get underway for a sprint to the flag, but in the time between the restart being announced and the drivers getting set to go, the fog set in again, and the race was ended.

Race director Charlie Whiting said the start rules haven't changed for 20 years, and that there have been only two cases (the other being Daniel Ricciardo in Japan last year) of drivers positioning their cars outside the grid boxes.

Alongside media duties and meeting the drivers, the video also shows Alonso sitting in Marco Andretti's car, which coincidentally wasn't able to start the race due to an issue...

The American, born in New York, took victories in Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can - Am, Trans - Am Series, proving he was one of the most talented all - round racing drivers.

It's not like an engine penalty either (which is applied to the car rather than the driver) so Fernando Alonso won't have to serve it when he returns to F1 for the next race in Montreal.

We take a look at the drivers who came back to the sport after suffering nasty injuries in racing cars

Raikkonen pipped the troubled McLaren drivers by a single point, and with Felipe Massa in the other car winning three races Ferrari won the Constructors» as well.

The once in a lifetime experience of being driven at speed by a racing driver at iconic race circuits in dream cars is truly unique.

Following what was a fairly processional race in Melbourne, several drivers have mentioned that overtaking is even harder to manage with the 2018 cars

They're paid millions to race the fastest cars in the world so it's sometimes easy to forget that F1 drivers are just regular human beings.

Because Daytona hosts plenty of racing at night the cars also went out in the dark, so driver Martin Lanting also got some great footage of him lapping the track under lights.

This VW Golf race car driver lost control in spectacular fashion at Brands Hatch, but somehow managed to save it

Vettel was sure that he was brake tested by Hamilton as they were preparing for the restart, and in a fit of mild race pulled alongside the Mercedes driver and gave booped his car into Hamilton's.

A snapshot from Wimbledon last week: Kimiko Date Krumm — a 40 - year - old Japanese player who lives in Monaco and is married to a German race car driver — nearly upset Venus Williams on Centre Court, while on an outer court 6» 6» Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina defeated Olivier Rochus, a 5» 6» Belgian.

This track taxes the stock cars — last year nine drivers, or 20.9 % of the field, suffered mechanical failures in this race — and produces more fender - banging than any other track in the Chase.

This was a weekend dedicated to the proposition that the owner of a sports car should turn up in the driver's seat on race day.

The site's in - car audio feature lets you eavesdrop on 10 drivers and their crew chiefs during the race.

David Reutimann and his team owner Tommy Baldwin insisted the No. 10 car had a problem that caused it to stop on the track with three laps to go in Sunday's NASCAR race at Martinsville, but other drivers weren't convinced.

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.

Today the Pau Grand Prix is one of the most prestigious races a driver can win in junior formulae, but in the 50s and early 60s it was F1 cars that tackled the tricky street circuit.

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.

From diving to touring car racing and golf, Max Verstappen manages to win «Driver of the Day» for pretty much everything in this funny parody.

Thankfully no - one hit it, but in the jam driver Matt Kenseth (who had been fighting for the win) made contact with the back of another car, ultimately putting him out of the race.

It got to a point where some teams would roll up to a grand prix weekend with one of their drivers amassing something like a 65 - place grid penalty and starting the race in car parking zone Z.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

Most weeks, as many as 200 drivers turn up in 200 gleaming cars, and they race 400 or 600 or 800 times till they've shaken themselves into hierarchies of velocity and control.

The British driver did a little bit of saloon car racing but retired from it altogether in 1969, moving to the USA.

Aside from the awesome looks, perhaps the best thing about the next Formula E car is the fact that it'll mean the end of drivers having to change cars in the middle of the race in order to get to the end, a stumbling block for many in their enjoyment of the series.

After testing a Formula E car in Mexico this weekend, she's said that aspiring female racing drivers should focus on trying to achieve a career there, rather than in Formula 1.

In what must be the strangest NASCAR story since a fan caused a yellow trying to take a selfie, race driver Travis Kvapil was unable to race at Atlanta Motor Speedway after his car was stolen.

«I think with the competition — the race cars are very cool - there's diversity in the sport with the drivers from 14 different countries, nine different winners this year...,» Frye said.

After a year of forced idleness Driver Richard Petty came rolling back in a blue brute of a Plymouth to win Daytona's stock car 500, delighting his racing father — but not Dearborn

Despite not participating in qualifying on Friday, all 11 drivers that missed the session will start Saturday night's race — albeit at the rear of the 40 - car field.

Reigning WEC champion and former Red Bull «number 2 driver» Mark Webber drove his Porsche 919 Hybrid as part of the launch of the new Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid in an effort to demonstrate how technology from motor racing can transfer to road cars.

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.

It's the latest in a catalogue of car problems for the team in Bahrain which also saw multiple failures across the race weekend for both drivers.

In a race that featured a two - hour rain delay and six safety car periods, Button managed to collide with two drivers - teammate Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso - and also had to serve a penalty for speeding behind the safety car.

He's a Hollywood action hero now, but as a kid in Australia, Eric Bana dreamed of being a race car driver.