Sentences with phrase «first racing wheel»

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The winner of a heat will be determined by the first barrel race car to cross the finish line by its FRONT WHEELS.

The first two races saw wheel - to - wheel racing for victory, Le Mans was epic and the season finale in Bahrain went down to the wire in an absolute nail - biter.

While it may take a few races for Montoya to get re-acclimated to open - wheel racing, Penske has stacked the deck in his efforts to both return to Victory Lane at Indianapolis and pick up the team's first championship since 2006 (Sam Hornish Jr..)

On Tuesday, his remarkable story continued with his first outing in a race car since the accident, driving a specially - adapted Fun Cup car, which featured steering wheel mounted hand controls.

The 18 - year - old was back behind the wheel of a racing car at Brands Hatch for the first time since his Formula 4 crash in April

One of the highlights of the race came when Vettel emerged from his final pitstop alongside Hamilton and the two went wheel to wheel in the first corner.

It's not just single - seaters which can suffer badly from wheel - on - wheel contact, as the first race of the 2018 Brazilian Porsche Carrera Cup season at Curitiba showed.

She left open - wheel racing and shifted to NASCAR full - time in 2012, first in the Xfinity Series then in Cup beginning in 2013.

Formula E will mark Nissan's first major motorsport project since it built a front - engined, front - wheel drive LMP1 car to race at Le Mans.

I had to start around the ninth row since I missed a number of the previous races and it wasn't easy to catch the front group but I managed to grab their wheels by the end of the first lap.

There's certainly an added difficulty in tackling courses in the dark, where your headlights illuminate corners, braking markers and track lines as you approach them, but it was something else racing on LeMans in my BMW M4 with the grandstands and Ferris wheel shining as I approached the first corner at 150KM / H.

The hum of 16 open - wheeled Formula Rookie vehicles start to fill the air as drivers take to the starting grid for the second and final race of the championship; the first race weekend of 2015.

The Citroën is agile and accurate in its lines but the first thing I do is turn the ESP off (and it is completely off in the Racing) because the front wheels are struggling to lay down the power cleanly and the electronics are cutting in early rather than allowing a bit of slip.

Though he bought his first Jeep in 1957 when he graduated from high school and was an avid four - wheel - drive enthusiast, Afton Canyon was his first race.

Honda isn't the first company to have to ditch all - wheel - drive in order to enter into GT3, Audi has had to do the same with its new R8 race car, as has Bentley.

For this you simply must get the car slowed neatly and without locking wheels, smoothly select second (or in a race car, first) gear, then drive out with the minimum of wheelspin.

The Toyota GR Supra Racing concept first appeared at the Geneva motor show earlier this year and has now reached the Gran Turismo racing game franchise, giving fans the chance to get their first go behind the (virtual) Racing concept first appeared at the Geneva motor show earlier this year and has now reached the Gran Turismo racing game franchise, giving fans the chance to get their first go behind the (virtual) racing game franchise, giving fans the chance to get their first go behind the (virtual) wheel.

In Initial impact, Simon Charlesworth tells the story of a rare survivor of this important Vintage tourer / / For this month's Auto - biography, Matthew Bell meets graphic designer, historic racer and lover of Americana Julian Balme to discuss his life behind the wheel / / The first saloon to use the legendary XK engine, Jaguar's Mk VII was a 100mph luxury car just as happy winning touring car races as cruising the home counties.

BORREGO SPRINGS, California — As a truck devotee who's put nearly 12,000 miles on the first - gen Ford Raptor, half of them while racing across some of the world's most dangerous and inhospitable landscapes, I couldn't wait to get behind the wheel of the new 2017 Ford F - 150 Raptor, which Ford says has been upgraded in nearly every significant way.

So was Renault, as Igor Stuifzand explains / / In Flower power, Giles Chapman remembers the enterprising brothers Neville and Raymond Flower, who gifted the Frisky microcar to the world and came very close to putting Egypt on wheels / / Simon Moore and Alessandro Silva investigate the first major race in Rome, the scene of the maiden victory for a Bugatti Type 3.

We gathered three all - wheel - drive ragtops — one of the first 2013 Bentley Continental GTCs, an equally fresh 2012 BMW 650i xDrive convertible, and a gracefully aging 2012 Audi A5 Quattro cabriolet — so we could drive them four hours north (yes, north) of Ann Arbor to Montmorency County, Michigan, site of Rally America's popular season - opening Sno * Drift race.

Southern California - based Brock Racing Enterprises made motorsport history in 1970 when it won the first of its Sports Car Club of America National Championships behind the wheel of a Datsun 510, the predecessor to the modern - day 370Z sports car.

I was already well on my way to being a car nut — my bedroom was full of wheeled models I'd built in my early teens — but that first introduction to Formula 1 Grand Prix racing cemented what would become my lifelong love for automobiles.

Lancaster, Typhoon, Hurricane — Jonathan Wood looks at the first models produced by Armstrong Siddeley after the Second World War / Alfa Romeo 6C — Douglas Blain encounters a recreation of one of a handful of short chassis 6C 256 Alfa Romeos prepared for racing just before World War Two / Porsche's Magnificent Mixtes — At a time when early automotive technology was in a state of flux, Ferdinand Porsche dared to use electricity to transmit power from engine to wheels.

I experienced my first open - wheel, single - seat race car more than three decades ago at a Skip Barber Racing School class in West Virginia.

Not bad for my first time behind the wheel of a proper race car.

While the race is best remembered for a dramatic wheel - to - wheel tussle between Villeneuve and Arnoux for second position, JPJ's win was the first victory of many for Renault and notably for Renault engines - as of 2016, 168 Grands Prix have been won with Renault power.

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Highlights of the field include the race - inspired Aston Martin Vantage GT12 driven by company CEO Dr Andy Palmer, while the festival race will also be the first outing for Beechdean AMR's new Vantage GTE with team - owner Andrew Howard taking the wheel.

Sending power through all four wheels significantly aids traction and helps the car move quickly off the line in those all - important first few seconds of a quarter mile drag race.

In detail, Hyundai's fourth SR model (and first SR SUV) after the Veloster SR Turbo, i30 SR hatch and Accent SR hatch is differentiated from lesser Santa Fes by a sports front spoiler, side skirts, a racy rear diffuser with integrated exhaust outlet and matte - black OZ Racing Versilia alloy wheels measuring 19 × 8.0 - inch (the same as the Highlander's standard wheels) and shod with 235/55 R19 Michelin Latitude Tour tyres.

While the 2015 GT350R won't be going racing as - is, it's got plenty of exotic equipment, like the industry's first mass - produced carbon fiber wheels, a carbon fiber splitter, and giant rear wing.

The special edition Z06 is Artic White, a first - time color for the Z06, and will feature a fender stripe, high polished wheels and a wide racing spoiler.

The No. 4 maintained that lead for most of the first 80 laps of the race until the first of the setbacks occurred while Richard Westbrook was at the wheel.

Adam Merzon's experience racing a front - wheel drive car for the first time at VIRginia International Raceway with RealTime was so much fun, he signed up for more, taking the wheel of the No. 44 Honda Civic Type R once again for the Lime Rock weekend.

One of the first uses of an automobile steering wheel was in Alfred Vacheron's 1893 race car.

A first for me is driving a racing car with an airbag - equipped steering wheel.

Measured rotating weights bolted to engines counter offending harmonics, largely replaced by clever active engine mountings / bushings Balanced crank: Usually done for race prepped engines to reduce the strain on the rotating components and their bearings when spinning at up to 19,000 rpm where a couple of grams turn into kilogrammes at such high rpms Balancer tube: A connection between intake manifoilds of the two banks of a V - type engine to even out pressure of cancel harmonics Bi-Turbo: Term coined to describe an endine with two turbochargers Brake Force Distribution: also called electronic brake force distribution where the ABS first attempts to divert pressure to the wheels that are not locked - up before intervening with its pulsating anti-lock strategy Brake Disc: Or Disc Brake, an aeronautic technology adapted for automotive use to replace the drum brake.

For the first time, race - bred thrills can be experienced in combination with the transfer of power through all four wheels.

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It is considered one of the most significant rally cars of all time, because it was one of the first to take advantage of the then - recently changed rules which allowed the use of four - wheel drive in competition racing.

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He took the wheel of the 1960 Corvette which he had co-driven with Bob Grossman to an unlikely GT class win and overall 8th place finish in the the 1960 race... the first time Corvettes had ever been a part of the field at Le Mans.

So, when Seat's friendly neighbourhood racing driver and former WTCC man Jordi Gene first gets behind the wheel (testing kicks off just after the Geneva Motor Show), he'll find himself in a car that's radically different to drive in comparison to the Leon TCR.

He first raced there in 1986 as an up - and - coming driver in the open - wheel ranks, and he's spent time behind the wheel of a Trans - Am car on the Southern California circuit.

Boasting a pair of firsts — the first Jeep - branded Street and Racing Technology (SRT) vehicle and the first four - wheel drive SRT vehicle — the all - new 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is available for $ 39,995, which includes $ 675 for destination.

This Jaguar XF 20d R - Sport, finished in Italian Racing Red with black highlights and fat 19 - inch wheels, gives off a suitably taut first impression.

Kansas City, MO. — Clay Millican's momentous victory in Top Fuel at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals marks the first time WELD Racing's revolutionary Delta - 1 TF - 1 one piece forged wheels have rolled into... read more»

Designed for the race track yet also approved for road use, the wheels are a first on a production vehicle boasting a CFRP / aluminium - composite construction.

First shown as a design study at the last Tokyo Show, the V - Special comes with the classic British sports car specs of wood - rim steering wheel, shift lever and brake lever grip - not to mention a British racing green paint finish.