Sentences with phrase «few laps»

He emerged over 40 seconds off the leaders in 15th place and despite making up time in the first few laps of his second stint, his pace gradually dropped off.

Drivers rarely take it easy or race with much caution, but it'd be understandable for a rookie to do just that in the first few laps of a completely new racing experience.

The field was so competitive, it was hard to pin - point who the contenders were for victory until the last few laps.

As a result it's often hard to say who's going to be in the hunt to win until the final few laps, and even then things can change.

The option is available to play smaller portions and fewer laps if you just want a little left - hand - turning fix for today.

It's on the track that I'm expecting more significant differences, and for my first few laps I noticed we have significantly less grip than before.

The rear tire degradation made it difficult to race the last few laps.

Over the final few laps the racing became seriously intense, with drivers going four - wide for the lead and coming close to hitting each other on multiple occasions.

The first few laps in the 620R tend to make you feel rather clumsy and well behind the potential of the car.

«We planned to do as few laps as possible and try to get it on lap one,» Magnussen reported.

Olivier Beretta, No. 64 Corvette C6.R: «I did very few laps during the test day because of the weather, and I had only two clear laps today.

The JD Classics Cat amongst the Cobras doesn't get a very good start but it means the next few laps as Ward reels them in and picks them off is very entertaining.

The sessions were not very long and you share the car so you lose a little bit of time in the driver changes, in the set - up changes and you ended up doing very few laps.

He wanted to go for the win, figuring that with so few laps left their best chance stood if they stayed out, thereby placing Newman in a position where he would need to play defense.

A series of reliability issues constantly cost the team vital track time to the point where the MCL33 completed fewer laps than any other car across both tests.

Another Depailler onboard from his Tyrrell 008, this time a wet and wild few laps at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal.

Montoya almost jumped the start but he got away with it and put in an unbelievable few laps of the ROC track to pip Kristensen to the win.

McLaren - Honda have covered significantly fewer laps than any other team, the car's best lap is nearly three seconds slower the the fastest overall, and they've already made more engine changes than they'll be allowed to during the season.

But these are a fractious few laps, with the 20 - inch Michelin Cup 2s struggling to key into the surface, resulting in understeer followed by oversteer, and some quite marked ABS and stability control intervention.

Which amounts to 2 - 3 fewer laps per stint at Le Mans.

However, you might want to splash out a bit more to get a larger blade size that cuts a wider area, meaning fewer laps up and down the garden.

«The first few laps in my second stint were very fast and I was starting to regain the lead, but after about eight laps the other car was just as fast so I couldn't catch Olivier.

A hundred years ago, a person in his early twenties may have been a man, but today the age still seems like the last few laps of boyhood.

When he wins a Grand Prix on his home turf he completes the last few laps with a broken gearbox, and he's in such agony afterwards that he can barely lift the trophy above his head.

Porsche provided some excitement early on, battling for the lead over the first few laps with the front - running Toyota

He may have had Lewis Hamilton all over his engine during the final few laps in Brazil, but Kimi Raikkonen says he had things under control.

Max Verstappen was the first front - runner to pit on lap 33, with Bottas and leader Raikkonen stopping for new tyres over the next few laps.

His instruction about how to drive the course didn't match what I had been told on the video and it took a few laps to reconcile the two.

«The Mark Webber team was telling him to try and take care of the engine a few laps before the finish because they could see from the data that the engine was in danger of breaking down and two laps before the finish it exploded,» he added, referring to the F1 race driver.

Some people will say, «Well, I almost won here, we led a few laps there, I qualified on the pole there...» I'd rather take a kid who wins every single weekend at his local track than someone who always runs 15th in a higher series.

But the most successful innovators make time to spend in the gym, do a few laps at the pool, or even some peaceful yoga.

I'd better go run a few laps first.

I literally want to cannonball into that soup and swim a few laps in it.

I close my eyes and spin around a few laps.

He likes to take steps while holding onto my fingers, we are taking quite a few laps around the house that way these days.

To honour this goal, I've been carving out 30 minutes every day to walk up the hill to my local coffee shop, grab an oat flat white and walk a few laps around the block while listening to a podcast.

If I could take a few laps and eat my way through, life would be alright, I tell ya.

When Ayrton Senna retired from the very - wet 1989 Canadian Grand Prix with just a few laps to go, Thierry Boutsen was able to win from Ricardo Patrese to mark the first win for the Williams - Renault partnership.

However Indy 500 winner Takuma Sato then went full - Sato by clipping the grass and spearing into Scott Dixon with just a few laps to go.

In the race he even led for a few laps, but come the end had slipped to eighth as faster cars moved up the order.

In the last few laps, Valtteri Bottas rapidly closed in as Vettel's tyres were pretty much gone.

In the race, he made one of his trademark brilliant starts to get up to sixth, which became fifth when he passed Alonso a few laps later.

From the first few laps that he did in the car, you could feel the atmosphere in the garage, with the engineers, how immediately they were impressed with his times, his feedback, with his precision.

He made he way back up to second a few laps later, but before he could mount a challenge on Prost's lead, yep, you guessed it, the car failed.

Former March and Leyton House driver of the time Ivan Capelli took it for a few laps of a shortened version of the Adelaide street circuit at the recent Adelaide Motorsports Festival.

But if you thought that was close, it was nothing compared to what happened a few laps later when Lotterer misjudged his braking at the same corner.

Johnson seized control of the race from Harvick when crew chief Chad Knaus short - pitted Johnson with less than 50 laps remaining, which vaulted him into the lead when Harvick pitted and had a slower stop a few laps later.

That would have been no biggie, but a few laps later a glitch with his car cost him a ton of time, and he dropped way down the order.

With a few laps to go Andrea Dovizioso made a break for it with Marc Marquez in hot pursuit, the two title protagonists from last year carrying on as if the winter break never happened.