Sentences with phrase «in race car production»

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Now that the GT is starting to be delivered to owners — only 250 in the first year of production — we can see what race - car elements influenced and in many ways determined the design.

We already knew the Vakyrie was going to be something completely revolutionary in terms of road car production, but it's sound like it could be about enter into folklore on the race tracks as well.

The same profile also states that Ridge Racer 8, a «drift based high speed car racing game» is in production and will also by exclusive to Switch.

A racing fanatic, his already - legendary status allowed him to begin production on a passion project centered around the greatest test of driving skill in the world: Le Mans, a 24 - hour car race in France.

«Cars» features dazzling visuals and witty production design - which do as much as can be hoped for in bringing to life the movement of NASCAR racing.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailein Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical traileIn, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

Jaguar would not be able to make the 150 cars required to qualify the XKSS for production - class racing, which may have spearheaded a return to motorsports after Jaguar bowed out in 1956.

Although Sunbeam began racing V -12-powered cars in 1913, Packard beat them to a dozen - cylinder production car in 1915.

Though rallycross was born in Europe 50 years ago, Red Bull Global RallyCross (GRC) has won over legions of fans in the seven years it has been racing in the U.S. Affordable production cars like the Volkswagen Beetle, Honda Civic, and Subaru WRX STI are stripped down and heavily modified to become 600 - horsepower rally beasts that sling mud, launch off 40 - foot jumps, and reach 60 mph in less than 2.0 seconds.

Production ended in 1965, but not before Ferrari had won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the car, marking the last time to this day that Ferrari would win overall at the esteemed endurance race.

Alpine started off as a small French automaker specializing in the production of racing and sports cars powered solely by Renault Engines.

The company tried rebounding in the 1950s, beginning with a new Type 251 race car, but it didn't meet its expectations and Bugatti ceased automobile production operations shortly after.

The production car's sizeable 90kWh lithium - ion battery pack, good for 310 miles in the road car, should also be game for several laps at race pace.

The Group B race class was all the rage in the early 1980s, with production - based cars heavily modified for motorsports duty, most built with turbocharged engines pumping out huge horsepower figures.

That car completed a lap in a scalding 7:39, but there were rumors of the Giulia running on racing slicks, along with reduced weight over the production model.

Other favorites included a 1998 Dodge Viper GTS - R, a limited - production version of the Viper GTS coupe built to homologate all the aerodynamic aides found on the GT2 - class race cars that ran in international events including the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The top 2 don't exactly count, they are one off cars that no one can buy, not production at all, and not even registered by official lists, they are included on race lists in which they are pretty far down the list.

Stefan Bellof did indeed drive a Porsche 956 to the fastest ever lap of 6:11:13 for a motorised vehicle in 1983... but it was for qualifying for the 1000 km Sports Car race, so technically it was never a production car... Admittedly some of the cars near the top of this list blur the definition of production car... if you was to go by the list above, then it should be the Porsche 918 that takes the mantle for fastest production car as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockeCar race, so technically it was never a production car... Admittedly some of the cars near the top of this list blur the definition of production car... if you was to go by the list above, then it should be the Porsche 918 that takes the mantle for fastest production car as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockecar... Admittedly some of the cars near the top of this list blur the definition of production car... if you was to go by the list above, then it should be the Porsche 918 that takes the mantle for fastest production car as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockecar... if you was to go by the list above, then it should be the Porsche 918 that takes the mantle for fastest production car as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockecar as the others at the top are thinly veiled track - only specials for someone with deep pockets.

Automobiles of the World — The monthly extract from «Automobile of the World» / The BSA Scout — Graham Skillen tells the story of the only British designed and built front wheel drive production car of the 30's / 1924 Vauxhall 23/60 Limosine — The editor tries one of Luton's overshadowed products and reveals his affection for «twenties perpendicular» / The Enfield Pageant Report — A review of one of the larger events of the year / Triumphs in the 20's and 30's — Last month Michael Worthington - Williams traced Triumph's early days - now he records their post-1933 resurgance / Racing History History?

The rulebook says a manufacturer must build 100 production cars in the same year as it begins campaigning a race version.

I'm eager to get into a final production Vantage on real roads — and a race track — but there's no doubt the new car is a step forward in both performance and depth of engineering.

The second needs little introduction: the 90 - degree small - block V - 8 that has been in production since 1955 in race cars and production cars and trucks.

You'll be able to virtually race the GR Toyota Supra Race Car Concept next month as part of an update to the Gran Turismo Sport video game, and indeed, in part it has been through games like Gran Tursimo that the Supra name has lived on after the A80 ceased production in 2race the GR Toyota Supra Race Car Concept next month as part of an update to the Gran Turismo Sport video game, and indeed, in part it has been through games like Gran Tursimo that the Supra name has lived on after the A80 ceased production in 2Race Car Concept next month as part of an update to the Gran Turismo Sport video game, and indeed, in part it has been through games like Gran Tursimo that the Supra name has lived on after the A80 ceased production in 2002.

Yet for all of Audi's performance credentials established during more than 35 years of professional competition in rallying and road racing and by its first Rennsport production car, the 1994 RS2, the marque has suffered a bit in terms of its messaging.

Production - car - based customer racing is a giant part of the game in sports - car competition, with Audi Sport — it's responsible for the RS street cars and customer racing programs — so far delivering more than 200 R8 GT3 - spec cars worldwide (60 in the U.S.).

That Toyota decided to preview the coming production version of the Supra in race trim was a megaphone shout to the world that the car will be a serious performer.

Bob Sharp Racing 240Z IMSA GTU In addition to chassis number 00006, Sharp's team built a backup SCCA C Production car from a 1970 240Z.

In 2010, a race car driver Tommi Makinen set a new Nürburgring lap record for production sedans behind the wheel of Subaru WRX STI Spec C.

Unlike the company's previous Mazda 6 Diesel race cars that raced in the Grand Am GX class (pictured below), this trio of cars is closely based on European - market production models.

The GTR is ostensibly a race car inside, at least in terms of feel and materials - being based on a production car, and lavished with the sort of attention you'd expect with something bearing the McLaren badge, it feels a lot less thrown - together than some racers.

Not only was it based of a BMW concept car in lieu of a production or racing car, Eliasson also chose to completely replace the car's exterior surfaces instead of decorating them.

Citroën will unveil the DS3 Racing at the Geneva motor show in early March with production of 1000 of these limited edition cars set to go on sale in the second half of 2010.

The club spirit was also well served, I thought, by driver - school attendees who brought along everything from a Riley (no relation to the English maker) V - 8 Special, its seat belts on back order, to a fully flared and prepared SCCA F - Production MG Midget race car, from a wispy 1968 Porsche 911T in street trim to a bruising 21st century Mercedes SL mit airbags.

[With] the E46, they gave more freedom in the motorsport regulations in what you were allowed to change, so the E46 M3 race car and production car are very different.»

Shortly afterward, the rules of sports car racing turned away from futuristic prototypes toward cars with the silhouettes of production models, so BMW racing director Jochen Neerpasch persuaded the company in 1975 to embark on a plan to build a mid-engine car.

In 1968, Chevrolet joined the race for the best American muscle car with the production of the Camaro.

For those who like huge SUVs with dubious styling there was the X7 Concept to take in but we were more excited by our first glimpse of the BMW M8 production car, with the road - car based M8 GTE racing making an official debut.

Panoz on Wednesday evening announced that his DeltaWing (and it is his) will race for the final time at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2017; and his new goal is to race again in the GT ranks, possibly with an all - electric version of his latest production car, the Esperante Avezzano.

I've raced in the now - defunct Viper Challenge series, and driven plenty of the old ACRs — they ceased production in 2010 — but my cut - parry - thrust ride with Winkler was the fastest I have ever been around a racetrack in a street - legal production car.

It's been a long road of concepts cars, teaser images, development drives and the deployment of a WEC racing car, but the road - going production version of the BMW 8 - series Coupe finally will finally be revealed in full at this year's Le Mans 24h.

Even with limited production, you'll have a good chance of seeing one of the 05RRs in action because last year the new Mexican track celeb was chosen as the car for the next five Race of Champions events.

With any luck, whatever the racing engineers learn adjusting to the LMP1 fuel - efficiency limitations will trickle down to production cars in the future.

Early attempts to field the Mustang in the SCCA's B - Production competition failed, so Carroll Shelby - who was already stuffing Ford engines into his successful Cobra race cars - was called in to help.

In this case, though, I really have never heard a production car sound this much like a race car in both tone and volumIn this case, though, I really have never heard a production car sound this much like a race car in both tone and volumin both tone and volume.

While the e-tron quattro will be Audi's first full - production electric vehicle, the company has built several examples in the past to learn its lessons, not to mentioned raced hybrid electric cars to overall victory at Le Mans.

Just 100 of these limited - production versions of the Viper GTS coupe were built to homologate all the go - fast aero bits found on the GT2 - class race cars that ran in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, among other races.

• New front - wheel drive record set on Magny - Cours GP circuit, with a 2 mins 1.51 secs lap • WTCR driver, Esteban Guerrieri, achieves record lap in standard production car with road tyres • Record further reinforces Civic Type R's position as a class benchmark • Type R Challenge 2018 aims to break records at 5 legendary European race circuits

Underlining its credentials as the most sporting model in Aston Martin's series production range, the Vantage road car is joined by Aston Martin Racing's new Vantage GTE race car.

The company says in 18 months, which seems to be a proper time frame, it will deliver 25 «Founders Edition» road cars, race at the 24 Hours Nurburgring AND will have scaled up its production to produce 250 cars per year here at a factory in the U.S., possibly in Detroit.

LEXINGTON, Ohio, — The upcoming Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge, the sixth round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series, will mark the first anniversary of Corvette Racing's debut in the production - based GT category.