Sentences with phrase «few laps the racing»

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.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

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.

Imagine if a driver strategically works his way up the field, undercuts a few rivals in the pit - stop window, and then this is all undone because of a slow getaway on a lap 55 race restart?

In the next race in Malaysia, Petrov was running in the points with a few laps to go when he made a bit of an error.

At Le Mans Porsche came within a few seconds of winning its first Le Mans 24 Hours - A 908 was leading on the last lap but suffering from brake problems, which allowed the Ford GT40 of Jacky Ickx to pass it and win in one of the closest finishes in the history of the race.

The 2017 Paris ePrix looked set to be a fairly processional race after the first few laps, but it soon livened up and then ended with complete confusion.

As the track dried out he actually began to reel the Spaniard back in and for a while it looked like he could actually win the race, but a small off just a few laps from the end meant he had to settle for second.

The blunt motivation tactic seemed to work though as Camara made his way up to 10th in the race and was looking set to score his first F2 points before having to retire a few laps from the end.

Ferrari didn't even get to enjoy victory as just a few laps from the end a wheel bearing put Alesi out of the race as well.

In fact it wasn't until his gearbox broke a few laps in that officials realised he shouldn't have been in the race at all, at which point he was disqualified.

When racing resumed he had to fend off pressure from Tom Gamble for the rest of the race, the gap rarely more than a second, but after 10 laps crossed the line to take third, just a few seconds behind winner Linus Lundqvist.

Ed Carpenter Racing's Spencer Pigot donned the visor cam ahead of a few laps at the glorious Sonoma circuit during testing for the upcoming season

Just a few laps from a practice session look amazing, but IndyCar has started to use them in races now too and yes, it's exactly as cool as you think.

Rosberg led away from pole, but a few laps into the race Nelson Piquet's Brabham took the lead and cruised off to a victory.

That was exactly the situation in the Toyota 86 Racing Series at Newcastle, leaving several drivers trying to make up a few spots on the final lap.

Had there been a few more laps in the race, Senna may have caught him, passed him, and won.

Having a good start was the key to my race and so was passing Vandoorne during the first few laps.

Towards the end of the race I was coming fast, catching the Force India, and I got quite close to overtaking him — if only there had been a few more laps, I could've given it a try.

This is particularly important because it's otherwise hard to familiarise yourself to your car the game lacks a qualifying mode, each race is only a few laps long and you change cars each six races or so.

While some racers have included wet weather, only CARS has implemented a comprehensive and evolving weather system where you might begin the race in the rain, which clears after a few laps and then for the remainder of the event you have sun glare and bloom sneak through the clouds.

From the very moment I stepped into the BAC Mono for a few laps around the Hockenheimring it was obvious that this wasn't your average racing simulator (or racing game for that matter)-- it is a contender for the greatest.

Before lapping Ferrari's private Fiorano race circuit, I spent a few hours powering the Superfast through the hills and valleys around Maranello for some real - world impressions.

The racing concept rolls on 22» satin charcoal wheels with sticky, Pirelli P Zero Nero tires and we can't wait to take it for a few laps either.

The 435i's brakes are not racing brakes, of course, and they provided the only letdown, with heavy fade after a few laps.

Following limited race track tuning, it made a few demonstration laps before the US Grand Prix at Riverside, California.

Over the next few years, it develops the road - racing chops to lap as quickly as race - car drivers.

We've gatecrashed a Britcar test day to grab a few laps of the Northamptonshire track during the lunch break, and before I've had a chance to sign the paperwork and pocket the keys we're boxed in by race mechanics and drivers in multi-coloured overalls.

Aston Martin has experimented with future drivetrain technology several times over the past few years — it even completed a full lap of the Nürburgring using a hydrogen powered V8 Vantage race car at the N24 in 2013.

Few will ever get to experience the surely gut - wrenching sensation of 887 hp and 944 lb - ft of torque at over 213 mph, but a first - person video of Porsche factory racing driver Patrick Long taking a hot lap around Texas's Circuit of the Americas might be the next - best thing.

After the lap, Porsche's Vice President of Motorsport and GT Cars, Frank - Steffen Walliser, said in a statement, «A few years ago, lap times like this could only ever be achieved by thoroughbred racing cars with slick tires.

Racer Magazine quotes Chevrolet's Director of Racing Mark Kent as saying «The Corvette Celebration at Laguna Seca was the perfect setting to provide a glimpse of things to come by doing a few laps with the new Corvette C7.R race car.»

Creating a public spat between the automotive heavyweights, the boss of the Hyundai's high - performance N brand, former BMW M chief Albert Biermann, recently slammed the Golf GTI as a wannabe that'll only be good for «a few laps on the race track».

RICHARD WESTBROOK, NO. 74 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R «The first few laps were pretty strange, having raced in the Detroit TUDOR Championship race less than 24 hours before.

After taking a red 2014 model for «quite a few» laps around the famous Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca race track in California, Bell makes no bones about his opinion of the car.

«We'll install our race engines on Thursday, and consequently we plan to run a limited number of laps during qualifying — a few laps for shakedown and to let the drivers get acclimated, followed by qualifying runs.

It was Tommy's first ALMS win and first with Corvette Racing, so I'm really pleased for him as he didn't put a foot wrong at the start, and avoided all the bumping and banging of the first few laps.

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

Sadly, my few laps of the Portimao racing circuit didn't allow for such play.

While in Race Hybrid mode, the driver can press a Hot Lap button that throws efficiency to the wind by giving the hybrid system a boost to its full power potential, but only for a few fast laps.

Here are a few laps in the CRP Racing / Hawk Performance Nissan GT - R during testing at Carolina Motorsports Park.

It may not be as realistic as the video we showed a couple of days ago featuring the aforementioned Scirocco R and the Golf R20 taking in a few laps at a race circuit, but it's a pretty good racing game to have, especially when you find yourself in need of scratching that racing itch every now and again.

Welcome to the Ford Performance Racing School: Take a few heart - pounding laps, sharpen your driving skills or get licensed for competitive rRacing School: Take a few heart - pounding laps, sharpen your driving skills or get licensed for competitive racingracing!

«Lime Rock is the shortest track with the fewest corners and the shortest lap time of any of the circuits that we race on all year,» said Payne.

However, others were acutely aware that we all entering the final few laps of the great race of life.

The game even occasionally throws in even more outlandish concepts, like on the last few laps of a race you'll suddenly develop cramp and be unable to change gears, or that you're doing a PR event and have to do certain things like pass X amount of cars in two laps.

There's a distinct lack of variety in the missions, the few objective type modes are all incredibly similar, your race and knockout modes are exactly the same albeit with a competitor knocked out after each lap, your delivery and assassination modes are basically the same with different targets, and every mode has enemies you can bash anyway so even the race modes feel the same, the only unique mode is one where you have to evade the cops, simple and normally a menial task.

I try drift events, and instantly dislike trying to do something that I've never been good at in any sim racing game, I try to beat the hot lap times and can't even get within a second of the bronze medal, let alone the gold, and I feel like I need a few hours of practice before I can even vaguely hope to race in a Ferrari 312T F1 car around Zandvoort.

A few very obvious and simple examples are «Total Annihilation», «Team DeathMatch» or «Regular Deathmatch», racing like «Death Race», «Knockout lap based», etc..