Sentences with phrase «gear hairpin turns»

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«Most of the time you can cruise in third gear, with the exception of the hairpin and maybe turn 1 onto the big front straight (second gear),» Weiner continues.

There are several tight, uphill hairpins on this early stretch of Decker; hard on the gas, then the brakes, drop a gear with a roarty throttle blip, turn in, and the Miata tucks its nose in eagerly.

The system works flawlessly in the dry, turning first - and second - gear hairpins that would normally be a festival of wheel spin into perfectly controllable four - wheel drift - a-thons.

The charge into the tight, second - gear hairpin asks a lot from the brakes, but there's plenty of stopping power and the turn - in is responsive.

The circuit at Portimao is a knot of blind crests, off - camber sweepers and second - gear hairpins, but the Cayman's front end bites like its crocodilian namesake and the car snaps through the turns with easily managed fury.

Patient on the throttle through the turn 11 hairpin, then enjoy the 7,000 - rpm staccato from the twin - turbo Ferrari - V8 - derived 2.9 - liter V6 as your right hand grabs the shift paddle to snap off fourth, fifth and on to sixth gear.

HPD also tuned the TLX GT's suspension specifically for this hill climb environment, and the transmission's gearing has been revised for faster acceleration coming out of the course's many hairpin turns.

With a curb weight of 3,373 pounds, the 135i takes some stopping from that kind of speed, especially with the incentive of the Andretti Hairpin approaching, and we squeezed ever harder on the brakes and snapped back into second gear in preparation for a single - apex maneuver through turn 2 and the completion of the lap.

Conscious that we were entering a live track and the possibility of having to merge with the likes of the Dodge Viper and Audi R8 coming out of the hairpin at any moment, we immediately floored the 135i in second gear, pushing it to the fringes of redline before snapping the shifter forward into third and hugging the left side of the track on the approach to turn 3.