Sentences with phrase «in a race car when»

Sadly just like his brother he was also killed in a race car when he collided with a backmarker during a sportscar race at the Norisring in 1971.

Not exact matches

Newman's wife originally bought the watch for him at Tiffany's back in 1968... right when he was getting into driving race cars.»

Waymo claims Uber was worried about getting beat in the self - driving car race so it stole Waymo's trade secrets when it hired one of its former executives.

The race to develop a self - driving vehicle fleet has intensified since February when Bloomberg reported that Google was developing a rival to Uber Technologies Inc., most likely in conjunction with its driverless - car project.

When the Tesla Model S P100D first dueled the Dodge Demon in a street race, the electric car completely decimated the gas - guzzler...

It becomes even more outstanding when you think of the technology and development involved in creating an autonomous race car, that'll be in an actual championship some point in the future.

That has become the popular question in the wake of Kevin Harvick's dominating win Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, when following the triumph photos surfaced online that appeared to show the rear window on Harvick's No. 4 Stewart - Haas Racing car had bowed in the upper right corner.

Patience and caution are equally important when trying to recover from a spin during a race, but both of those were ignored in this huge Stock Car Brasil shunt.

There were still some epic performances though, notably at the final race of the season in Japan when Alonso put in an absolute giant - killer of a weekend, starting with qualifying, where he put his car 18th on the grid.

It's not like an engine penalty either (which is applied to the car rather than the driver) so Fernando Alonso won't have to serve it when he returns to F1 for the next race in Montreal.

Although the 2018 cars are looking set to be the fastest ever, their minimum weight has ballooned to 734 kg (next year it'll go up to 740 kg)- significantly more than when Kubica was last racing in 2010.

He also vomited in his helmet during the race, and when he got out of the car afterwards he could only make it a few steps before collapsing from exhaustion.

It made a bit of a comeback in the late - 2000s when Super Aguri ran old Honda chassis, and when Red Bull used the same cars for both of its teams, Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso.

After a mediocre opening lap and a bit of argy - bargy with Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton quickly made his way past the midfielders and up to fourth, including perhaps the moment of the race when he passed three cars in one go.

On Sunday that's due to happen at 5:45 am local time, so tune in a bit before that and enjoy the cars driving at «the golden hour» - so called because this is when track conditions are usually at their best and cars often set their fastest laps of the race.

If it came out in the middle of the race the cars would stop, as you'd expect, but when the race got underway again behind the safety car, it was almost like a completely different race.

When he was a child Earnhardt would conduct makeshift races with Matchbox cars in front of one of the clocks his famous father had won while the NASCAR radio broadcast played in the background.

He pitted behind the safety car at the end of the first lap, and when title contender Fernando Alonso emerged from his stop later in the race he came out behind the Renault.

He'll be back in a race car this week though when he takes part in Formula E's official pre-season test at Valencia.

He retired on the spot, but when the race was stopped after two laps, he was able to rejoin on pole in the spare car (although he didn't end up making the chequered flag anyway).

Pink isn't normally a colour associated with race cars, so when Force India revealed that it's 2017 F1 car was going to be pink the internet reacted in a big way.

Motorsport pit lanes are dangerous places to work and we were reminded of that when a mechanic found himself staring down an approaching GP2 car in the Abu Dhabi feature race.

According to Nascar, 18 cars were damaged in the crash and resulting mayhem, although a few were able to make the restart when the race eventually resumed.

The first four laps of the race were spent behind the safety car following several incidents, and when it came in Schumacher (who had dropped from second to fourth at the start) was struggling.

In the final race of 1956 at Monza, Juan Manuel Fangio saw his title hopes disappear when his car broke down.

When you're in the lead of a race and in complete control, the last thing you want to do is throw the car off track with a handful of laps to go.

When NASCAR's Drive for Diversity (D4D) program selected Paulie Harraka in the fall of 2006, he took the big step of moving up into late model racing from karting and legends cars.

Hunter - Reay had led a race - high 28 laps and was running in the top three when his car began smoking down the backstretch.

The team will be sponsored by NTT Data, the same organization that sponsored Kanaan when he drove for Ganassi in the Grand - Am race at Indianapolis this summer, the first time he had driven a car for Chip Ganassi.

Which is why when it was announced last month that he would not be returning to Earnhardt - Ganassi Racing next season, it was logical to think Montoya would either return to open - wheel racing or compete in sports cars full -Racing next season, it was logical to think Montoya would either return to open - wheel racing or compete in sports cars full -racing or compete in sports cars full - time.

In terms of looks the Dallara DW12 is definitely a «love it or hate it» car, but there could be no denying that it allowed for fantastic racing when it became the IndyCar chassis in 201In terms of looks the Dallara DW12 is definitely a «love it or hate it» car, but there could be no denying that it allowed for fantastic racing when it became the IndyCar chassis in 201in 2012.

As well the WEC and Le Mans, the M8 GTE will also go racing stateside in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, and that's where the car will make its race debut when it tackles the Daytona 24 Hours in January.

Just as happened when he won his first race, this allowed Bruce McLaren to take the win in a race which had just five cars still running at the end.

Andrea Roda's race early when he dropped his Ligier LMP2 car at the super-fast Pouhon corner in the European Le Mans Series race at Spa

«It's funny hearing criticism about the depth of our field from someone who has to race three other cars, when we have seven winners in the first seven races.

When I jump in the car, I put my legs inside the cockpit, the mechanics put the belts on, [I think] when I take the belts off and I pull myself out of the car maybe I am the winner of this race - I was thinking that in this momWhen I jump in the car, I put my legs inside the cockpit, the mechanics put the belts on, [I think] when I take the belts off and I pull myself out of the car maybe I am the winner of this race - I was thinking that in this momwhen I take the belts off and I pull myself out of the car maybe I am the winner of this race - I was thinking that in this moment.

It's been six years since Kubica was behind the wheel of a single - seater race car, when he topped pre-season F1 testing for Lotus at Valencia in 2011.

When Bill Elliott — the only driver before Gordon to win the bonus — bagged the Winston Million in 1985, it marked stock car racing's biggest payday, quadrupling the prize for the Winston Cup season championship.

When you combine twisty, barrier - lined street circuits with single - seater electric race cars that are tricky to drive, you're in for a pretty manic weekend.

America's biggest equine event, The National Horse Show, which opens its annual eight - day stand next week (Nov. 2 - 9) in Madison Square Garden, had no more class than a six - day bike race when it was first held in a car barn in 1883.

The initial first part of that race on June 12 included this huge crash, after Josef Newgarden found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when friend and fellow racer Conor Daly lost the rear of his car.

It's a crossover attempt that harks back to a time in racing when top drivers in each discipline hopped from car to car.

The Blancpain GT qualifying race at Misano started with a bang when several cars got caught up in a lap one pile - up.

Paulo Pomelli was racing in the Porsche GT3 Cup Brazil when contact with a damaged, slowing car sparked a huge crash

The Porsche 919 completed a hat - trick of Le Mans victories in 2017 when Brendon Hartley, Timo Bernhard, and Earl Bamber took victory in the race which none of the hybrid cars seemed to want to finish.

Even when Bridgestone - shod cars weren't a factor this contributed to some intriguing races - like in Canada, when David Coulthard made a precautionary tyre stop that ultimately cost him victory.

When I was winning DTM races in 2015, the success ballast put on the car made it one of the toughest experiences I've had so far.»

Santiago Rosso was on course to win this Formula Renault Argentina race when his car broke down in sight of the finish

The chassis (No. 211) is the very one Schumacher raced to his fifth and final victory at Monaco and was also the car he raced in the Hungarian GP, when he clinched his fourth world championship.

Viewers were left shocked in Singapore when the race restarted after a safety car and there was still a frickin» marshal on the track as the cars charged towards turn one.