Sentences with phrase «in hairpin turns»

The interesting part is that our hybrid track test model is equipped with the optional active rear steering system that shows its worth in hairpin turns, helping to rotate the back end around effortlessly and erase understeer.

The way the Audi quattro all - wheel - drive system sends the 220 horsepower from the 2.0 - liter 4 - cylinder engine to the ground is like adding gravity, keeping the car pinned in hairpin turns and high - speed sweepers.

In the alternate universe of waterslide design, Newtonian models don't always work, and chaos lurks in every hairpin turn.

Around the bend in a hairpin turn, our destination bursts into view and we stop to take pictures.

Not exact matches

In both cars, you feel the road beneath you, almost as though you're in a kit car meant for hairpin turnIn both cars, you feel the road beneath you, almost as though you're in a kit car meant for hairpin turnin a kit car meant for hairpin turns.

HOFFMAN: Usually hairpin turns like this are delayed by turf wars, fights in the boardroom, activist shareholders circling in and calling everyone morons.

Usually hairpin turns like this are delayed by turf wars, fights in the boardroom, activist shareholders circling in and calling everyone morons.

One that can handle a day or two in the car - blizzards, bumps in the road, hairpin turns, and all.

Included in the thrilling trip is an encounter with a yacht - sized tour bus that has stopped on a hairpin turn so the driver can put on chains.

The past year has been a hairpin turn for Armstrong: divorcing Kristin, buying another house in Austin a 60 - second walk from the one his three children still live in, falling in love again «way sooner» than he figured he would and now having to leave the kids (the oldest a four - year - old) to train in Europe for two months.

In September the car raced 14,100 feet to the summit of Pike's Peak, handling 12.4 miles of hairpin turns without human assistance.

Careening through hairpin turns and racing down straightaways, light packets called photons travel the distance in this nanoscale photonic circuit.

«I thought my career was to discriminate tau in aging,» she recalls, «but my career took a hairpin turn.»

(It's a reasonable idea — after all, speedy mako sharks have skin covered in tiny toothlike scales that help them make hairpin turns by controlling flow separation.)

MX vs ATV's legendary Rhythm Racing lets players pre-load into massive jumps and clutch through hairpin turns at full speed all while retaining the smooth and authentic feel not found in any other game.

Payne has often been likened to the great Preston Sturges, and a generous reading of this movie's unwieldy structure might position it in the spirit of Sturges» classic 1941 comedy «Sullivan's Travels,» with its nutty hairpin turns, earnest doofus hero and sincere if sanctimonious moralizing about What Humanity Really Needs.

The storyline becomes so lusciously serpentine, with perilous curves and hairpin turns, it rivals Howard Hawks» «The Big Sleep» from 1946 for the most convoluted plot in all of film noir.

In a sustained hairpin turn, one can balance out the weight distribution by applying the throttle, but I found that the only way to do so was by accelerating, which is to say increasing speed.

A little understeer may be felt on turn - in to mountain hairpins, but grip levels remain high and traction from mid-corner is exceptional.

This is a text - book hairpin, so an aggressive late turn in generally works best, getting the steering phase out of the way early and opening out the exit.

«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.

In addition to the meticulously manicured lawns and babbling brooks, the driveway is complete with elevation changes and hairpin turns.

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.

Deene is a squared - off hairpin, but you should ignore the first kerb and just aim at the second from a late turn - in point.

The next 44 seconds are a blur, and I'm constantly aware of the ST's sharp turn - in that makes quick work of the slalom and the midrange turbocharged torque that helps the car squirt out of the 180 - degree hairpin with gusto.

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.

Turn it to Sport Plus and the GTS will engage in a playful game of pitch - and - catch in every hairpin.

70 hairpin turns in just 20 km, narrow roads and sheer vertical drops.

The 200's suspension provides a smooth and controlled ride, yet manages to keep the 200 relatively level in even the sharpest hairpin turns.

The 20 - turn, 3.41 - mile road course's high - speed esses, long back straight, heavy brake zones and tight hairpins are a thorough workout for race cars and high - performance road cars alike, and here I am, tackling it in an SUV.

During an Audi - sponsored event in Spain, I drove the new TT RS on the Circuit of Jarama racetrack, putting the car through the course's six hairpin turns, and also getting the launch control experience described above.

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.

On my frustration - fueled charge into Turn 2 early in the day, I found myself carrying too much speed into the hairpin.

Six Lamborghini Huracan tackled the steep hairpin turns of one of the most impressive road in the world: the Transfagarasan.

Beyond that, the Grand Sport I'm in is fitted with the optional Z07 package, which further upgrades the standard Brembo brake package with carbon ceramic - matrix discs, which boast a 60 to 0 stopping distance of under 100 ft. I'm happy to have them at the hairpin awaiting me at the end of the straightaway, allowing me to eke out a touch more speed while standing on them before I dove into the turn.

Imagine that you're in a supped up vehicle, ripping through the dirt taking hairpin turns and launching across 70 foot jumps, all while in a closed course with several other racers chomping at the bit for your top spot.

Of course, the button scheme can be swapped manually, but I never figured out why I was driving so poorly in the Ps4 version until I happened to catch a glimpse of my character ducking while I was trying to make a hairpin turn.

In fact, only one - fifth of DiRT 2's career events can be considered rally - complete with co-pilot direction and hairpin turns - as Rallycross is strikingly similar to the arcade action found in the other eventIn fact, only one - fifth of DiRT 2's career events can be considered rally - complete with co-pilot direction and hairpin turns - as Rallycross is strikingly similar to the arcade action found in the other eventin the other events.

All of these courses are unique to Sega Rally 3, though some elements of Sega Rally Revo are noticeably present — it seems that in many cases, the most memorable turns have been cherry - picked for inclusion (in particular, Canyon's long easy right on the hydroelectric dam, and Alpine's multiple hairpins).

There are many points in the races where you are turning hairpin turns with no walls between them.

Some tracks will have you racing under nice sunny skies, while others will have you sweating like mad because you're trying to make hairpin turns in a thunderstorm that gradually gets more intense.

As you raced through hairpin turns at breakneck speeds on lakes and rivers, you'll find yourself struggle to retain control and reach the finish line in record time.

The stage surprised us with its many sharp 90 degree bends, and acute and hairpin turns weren't in short supply either.

theres this one track that you literly have to go off a gump and do a hairpin turn in the air took me awile to figure that out but after i did i became an amazing part of the race.

Approximately 3 miles past the hairpin turn, you will come to the first traffic light (at Dunkin Donuts and McDonalds in North Adams).

But in the end, I'm so happy with how my new reclaimed barn wood console table with hairpin legs turned out.