Sentences with phrase «in race cars for»

Numerous brands have been using similar systems in race cars for several years.

Not exact matches

College was never in the cards for this Florida kid who got a head start on his friends and went into the work force at 18 years old, and started fixing and racing cars on the side.

Race cars were already using Manco's tape, so last May Manco invested $ 150,000 in an official sponsorship, merchandising tie - ins, and a customer write - in contest for most creative use of the tape.

Even though I was driving for a team I hadn't driven for, and the pedals in the car were different than what I'm used to... the weirdest thing was driving to the race track knowing I was actually going to race.

The company has sponsored NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon too — his race car features a prominent Fix Auto logo — and it has even purchased digital billboards in the popular video game series Need for Speed.

After serving in the Air Force for three years, Berthold graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1985 with a degree in mechanical engineering and went to work in professional car racing.

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

The angular - looking concept version called Urus, unveiled for the first time in Beijing in 2012, had the same built - for - playboys appearance as Lamborghini's cars: sharp lines, wide rims, race - car aesthetics.

Sports - car racing is the best sports - business success story hiding in plain sight: IMSA, the premier sanctioning body for sports - car competition in North America.

According to the terms of the partnership, Lego manufactured Shell - branded gas stations and racing cars in exchange for the oil giant making those products available through its global network.

Then, a 1936 Aston Martin 2 - liter sports - racing two - seater car is seen selling for between $ 2.1 million and $ 2.6 million on September 10 at the Goodwood Revival festival in England.

Luxury car sales had an especially strong year in 2013, with Mercedes setting a sales record to win the race against BMW and Toyota's Lexus for the top - selling brand.

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

This is likely what is shown in the teaser video that Faraday Future released for the then - unknown electric vehicle in mid-December, as the car was shown beating the Tesla Model S P100D in a drag race.

After a race to the wire, the Toyota Camry beat the Honda Accord for the title of the nation's best - selling car in 1997, leaving the Ford Taurus in third place and ending its five - year reign as the top seller.

For starters, just think of what connects binary options trading to car racing or advertising any binary trading software in a garage in the first place.

For example, companies have already begun implementing in medical devices, mobile devices, and even cars as the race to create a self - driving vehicle continues.

The image of the pit stop might easily work for church services if one could think only of the gassing up and servicing a car gets at the race track and say that the Christian needs to come every Sunday to get gassed up and serviced — but already we are in deep trouble.

That is why Isaac Peebles in the 19th century thought it was wrong for people to sing during a train ride; and why it is wrong to race our cars through the streets, stereos cranked high enough to be sure that everyone we pass has the opportunity to enjoy the music we happen to like; and why it was wrong for Cohn to wear his jacket; and why it is wrong for racists to burn crosses (another harmful act of self - expression that the courts have protected under the First Amendment).

Philip Morris has sponsored a racing car in the Grand Prix for more than a decade, and R.J. Reynolds has sponsored a car since 1987.

For example, you can run a race; you can run a car; you can get a run in a stocking; the «runs» can refer to bowel distress; and so on... it is a mistake to limit the reading of «water» to one meaning, liquid H2O.

For his goody bags I found a pack of wood race cars (to go with our theme), organic fruit strips, a thing of bubbles and some stickers... The one thing I am cheating on is rice crispy treats in their bags with colored m & ms down the middle to look like a stop light but that's the only junk.

Granatelli's new cars are being built in Lenggries, Germany by a racing newcomer, Francis McNamara, who has been in the game for just two years but who already has a reputation of building winners.

Last week the Soviet unveiled a brand - new racing car, the Kharkov Six, in an arrestingly streamlined version designed for straightaway speed trials.

The Mucke Motorsport team has raced with pink cars in the DTM for the last couple of years thanks to their association with the same sponsor, and this year will see the pink BWT - liveries expand into the German Formula 4 and GT championships as well.

Best of all for the team, it was the No. 8 car of Sebastien Buemi / Kazuki Nakajima / Anthony Davidson which won (although Davidson didn't even get to drive in the race!)

The drivers rushed back to their cars and prepared to get underway for a sprint to the flag, but in the time between the restart being announced and the drivers getting set to go, the fog set in again, and the race was ended.

Race director Charlie Whiting said the start rules haven't changed for 20 years, and that there have been only two cases (the other being Daniel Ricciardo in Japan last year) of drivers positioning their cars outside the grid boxes.

Senna didn't really want to drive for McLaren in 1993 as he didn't think the car (with its underpowered Ford engine) was worthy of his talents, and instead of signing a contract for the whole year famously drove for the team on a race - by - race basis.

I think to myself if Fernando was in that car today he would have finished a decent race and got points for Red Bull.

Stick around to watch them race at night for a bit as seeing LMP1 cars blast past GTs in darkness is something you really have to see to believe.

In the race he even led for a few laps, but come the end had slipped to eighth as faster cars moved up the order.

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.

Now, his son Mick — who is racing in European Formula 3 this year — has tried the car out for size, testing it at the Spa - Francorchamps track in Belgium.

«It's the first time for me in an endurance race, first time in a prototype car, first time driving at night, first time driving with GT cars around so many new things that will come step by step.

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.

Hamilton, Vettel, and Alonso fought for the win, Romain Grosjean and Sergio Perez ended up on the podium, and the top eight were covered by just 15 seconds in a race with multiple differing strategies and no safety cars.

The FIA has given a huge vote of confidence in the ability of the 2018 cars to overtake each other by adding a third DRS zone to the Albert Park circuit for this weekend's race.

Red Bull says it's just a launch livery and that the race livery will be on the car for the first test in Barcelona.

After what seemed like ages of waiting over the off - season, the car launches have come and gone in no time at all and before you know it, we'll be in Melbourne, getting hyped up for the first race.

Vettel was sure that he was brake tested by Hamilton as they were preparing for the restart, and in a fit of mild race pulled alongside the Mercedes driver and gave booped his car into Hamilton's.

«Above all, Le Mans is an engine breaker,» Wyer said in his office 10 days before the race, as outside in the workshop mechanics were reassembling the three squat five - liter GT40s that would be racing in France, a third car having been added for the 24 Hours.

In addition to his four CCWS championships, Bourdais is also the winner of 31 races in his Indy car career, tied with Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy for eighth on the all - time wins lisIn addition to his four CCWS championships, Bourdais is also the winner of 31 races in his Indy car career, tied with Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy for eighth on the all - time wins lisin his Indy car career, tied with Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy for eighth on the all - time wins list.

By race time, Porsche, with the four three - liter, 320 - horsepower cars, and nine other privately owned 2.2 - and two - liter starters, was heavily favored and the race began for them just as the season had in Florida.

The low square car not only won the biggest single event in sports - car racing but in doing so also squeezed by Porsche to win for itself the International Manufacturers» Championship by a slim three points.

Were Erik Jones not under contract to Joe Gibbs Racing and needing to be in a JGR car for contractual reasons, there was a good chance Kenseth could've kept his seat at least another year.

Kevin Harvick will be in a backup car for the remainder of the Food City 500 race weekend after crashing in opening practice Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Later, based in Hong Kong for five years, he ate noodle soup, raced cars, wandered around Sumatra in the middle of a minor Indonesian revolution and recorded the beginning of what later became the disaster of Vietnam.

I felt like I could race at Kansas for sure and probably have raced at Charlotte no problem, and I felt foolish sitting at home feeling OK and not being in the car.

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.