Sentences with phrase «for road racing»

He was even given given special awards from the American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA), including the 500 cc Hailwood Cup in 1998 and 2003, and the 2003 John & Ginny Demoisey Trophy for road racing couples, with his wife, painter Paula DeLuccia.

As a vintage motorcycle racer who divides his time between painting and motorcycle racing, [9] Poons has been given special awards from the American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA), including the 500 cc Hailwood Cup in 1998 and 2003, and the 2003 John & Ginny Demoisey Trophy for road racing couples, with his wife, painter Paula DeLuccia.

Powered by a Hemi 392 slightly modified for road racing extremes and restricted by class rules, the cars made around 500 horsepower.

To prepare the Camaro Z / 28 for road racing, engineers specified a lighter, 302 cid V - 8, officially rated at 290 horsepower.

«The LS7 is ideal for road racing because it delivers amazing performance in a compact, lightweight package,» said Jordan Lee, Small Block chief engineer and program manager.

The engine is significantly detuned for homologation, with a strong, linear torque curve designed specially for road racing.

«The Corvette C6 - R is the best sports car we've ever built and it has been our privilege to develop it alongside the new Corvette Z06,» said Harry Turner, GM's group manager for road racing.

This proved to be the correct choice and provided a premium platform for road racing that was wildly successful.

Lightweight, nimble and incredibly powerful, the original Z / 28 was designed for road racing.

After consulting with Legacy, his plans for the car grew as he ended up going with a tubular chassis with a front and rear suspension set up for road racing.

This is THE quintessential circuit for road racing in North America... period!

Delivered as a body - in - white, the FR500C inspires a new generation of track - ready, factory - built race cars designed both for road racing (M - FR500 - Boss R1) and drag racing (FR500CJ).

When the new Corvette Sting Ray was about to debut in late 1962, he persuaded Chevrolet to off er a special RPO — the Z06 — created specifically for road racing.

Now, given their proclivity for road racing, backroad blasts, and role as a usable classic, values are beginning to shoot up.

Not exact matches

Written by broadcast journalist Katy Tur, the New York Times - bestseller is part - memoir, part - recap of her life on the road as the NBC News pool reporter for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race.

Cars like the McLaren P1, Ferrari LaFerrari, and Porsche 918 are effectively racing cars for the road.

German auto group Daimler AG (DDAiY) has been granted a license by the state of Nevada to test self - driving trucks on public roads, as the United States and Europe race to establish a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles.

Pros Potential for explosive growth if you sell at local tracks, expand from road races to tap drag and circle - track events, and launch a full - scale direct - mail campaign.

In the past few years, it has inked a deal with Formula One racing, poured almost a billion into real estate and acquired Australian toll road operator Intoll and Cintra Infraestructuras for $ 4.1 billion.

Stock picking is basically an expensive hobby for an investment geek, like sports fishing or off - road racing only without the danger of bleeding.

The buyer persona will be different for your recreational bikes, you're racing bikes, your road bikes, for instance, and your mountain bikes might be somebody else again.

For our live taping of the RELEVANT podcast's 600th episode, the gang follows up on a super serious true - crime investigation, brings out the fun and games for special guest John Mark McMillan, discusses road trips through the Netherlands and the merits of donut races, plus a lot moFor our live taping of the RELEVANT podcast's 600th episode, the gang follows up on a super serious true - crime investigation, brings out the fun and games for special guest John Mark McMillan, discusses road trips through the Netherlands and the merits of donut races, plus a lot mofor special guest John Mark McMillan, discusses road trips through the Netherlands and the merits of donut races, plus a lot more!

We already make it tougher for people to put race cars on the road, or to drive excessively fast.

For America to nominate a Black President, sends a message that race relations is on the road to a better future.

The tranquility of the early morning is broken by the sound of the vehicles that start racing on the road, roaring and screeching madly for no apparent reason.

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That was a potentially pivotal game for us in the title race and we went into it with high hopes against an injury hit team, but it was Rashford who took the glory on the day, stunning Arsenal with two goals in the space of three minutes to set us on the road to a damaging 3 - 2 loss.

Patterson Pass Road in Livermore is already home to a number of destinations for sports enthusiasts (a Sports Mecca if you will), which includes Umigo Racing, Cabernet Indoor Sports and The Range football training center.

There were signs of improvement in Monaco, but he threw a promising result for the team away by crashing out of qualifying and then being frightened off the road by Sergio Perez during the race.

Amazingly, for a track that's raced on by the FIA, there was no tyre barrier or wall between the escape road, the grass verge and the recovery vehicles.

Obviously, aside from the huge social and financial commitment needed to set up the infrastructure, re-profile roads, re-lay Tarmac, fit miles of Armco, build grandstands, pay for race - hosting fees and gain approval and sign - off from the FIA, we don't see any barriers to our vision.

It was a triumph of unusual sweetness for the silver - haired Taruffi, the «old fox,» who knew the Italian mountain roads better than any man but had raced in the Mille Miglia without success so many times before.

Mike Conway, who will compete with Ed Carpenter Racing on road / street courses next season, tested the No. 20 Fuzzy's Vodka entry for the team, with team owner / driver Ed Carpenter in attendance as well.

For the women, Denmark's Amalie Dideriksen is the current road race champion, and American Amber Neben is the current time trial world champion.

On Wednesday and again Friday night, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver was penalized for speeding on pit road, necessitating he fall to the rear.

Yet, near universally race fans are clamoring for a schedule featuring fewer intermediate speedways and a greater number of short tracks and road courses.

In recent Martinsville races, he's had a dominant car only for potential wins to slip away due to speeding penalties incurred on pit road.

Millions of fans look to NASCAR drivers for the proper way to conduct themselves on the road, and if NASCAR and the race teams don't take a DUI charge seriously by issuing a severe penalty, it sends the message that drunk driving is somehow not that bad.

Cycling races require sometimes 200 - plus kilometers of road closures for racing, and cities and states in the U.S. are much less likely to acquiesce those requests than European counterparts.

It's been a long and winding road, and while many issues — the race for the title, and two of the three relegation spots — have been decided, a lot still rests on this final day of action.

Harvick and Keselowski had the two best cars a year ago at Atlanta; Harvick won the pole and led a race - high 292 laps, while Keselowski took the checkered flag after Harvick was penalized for speeding on pit road during his final stop.

The circuit uses the longest district road in Italy as the start / finish straight the Via Cristoforo Colombo and will race around the Obelisco di Marconi with the Colosseo Quadrato making for a pretty backdrop to the race.

IndyCar is expected to announce a race on the road course at Indianapolis for next season before the end of this season but it won't make up for losing its grip on the Baltimore market.

Each year we reveal our untraditional takes on sport: the Bay to Breakers road race in San Francisco, with its nudists and Elvis impersonators, for instance, and the Calaveras County Fair & Jumping Frog Jubilee.

Modder N64AC has created a version of Mario Kart 64's Rainbow Road (the best version) for PC racing sim Assetto Corsa.

This wasn't the first time Webber has driven racing machinery on public roads, having done a demo run across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a Williams F1 car in 2005, and across the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne for Red Bull in 2011.

An amendment to the Road Traffic Act will make it easier for street races and other closed - road events to happen in EnglRoad Traffic Act will make it easier for street races and other closed - road events to happen in Englroad events to happen in England.

«ñ † A con man has to be fast on his feet, and Matt Damon, who plays a debonair thief in Ocean's Twelve, flashed some decent speed last Thursday when he ran the Feaster Five road race in Andover, Mass., part of his training regimen for the Boston Marathon.

Amateur race, car collector and Monaco resident Claudio Roddario likes them so much that in 2016, he decided to buy chassis 037 - the last 917 ever built - and convert it for road use.

Now, as you might expect, there are few hurdles to jump through when it comes to turning a race car into a road car, but thankfully for Roddario, there was a precedent.