Sentences with phrase «lap race drivers»

The lower groove has proven faster during practice and qualifying, but over the course of a 500 - lap race drivers gradually began migrating toward the wall due to the rubber build up negating the effectiveness of the compound.

Not exact matches

«The Mark Webber team was telling him to try and take care of the engine a few laps before the finish because they could see from the data that the engine was in danger of breaking down and two laps before the finish it exploded,» he added, referring to the F1 race driver.

I caught the highlights of the Daytona 500 last week on SportsCenter and the analysts said the drivers make somewhere between 5 - 8 pit stops over the course of the 200 laps in the 500 - mile race.

After a bit of a clash with Verstappen on the second lap, Hamilton then referred to the Red Bull driver as «such a dickhead» in the cooldown room following the race.

After the race restarted the traditional Texas pack racing continued, and as the laps clicked down drivers started to really go for it.

When Lewis Hamilton's «party mode» W09 produced a pole lap that was a staggering seven - tenths quicker than the closest Ferrari, it looked like the race could have been a formality for the Mercedes driver.

Drivers need to have razor - sharp concentration to get the best lap times out of the car, especially those at the wheel of prototypes as they weave their way through slower racing machines.

Imagine if a driver strategically works his way up the field, undercuts a few rivals in the pit - stop window, and then this is all undone because of a slow getaway on a lap 55 race restart?

Because Daytona hosts plenty of racing at night the cars also went out in the dark, so driver Martin Lanting also got some great footage of him lapping the track under lights.

He was just one lap behind race winner Michael Schumacher and on pure pace, he beat Heinz - Harald Frentzen's Prost, Olivier Panis» BAR, the two Arrows drivers, and his teammate, who was a massive two laps behind him.

The idea is that a particular part of a circuit has an alternative layout that either makes the lap longer or — most likely in the case of the WTCC — shorter, which every driver can use on a certain number of occasions throughout the race.

Kyle Larson was one of the best drivers throughout the 2017 Monster Energy Cup Series season, winning four races, leading the third-most laps and entering the playoffs as a title favorite.

Its four drivers have a combined four top - 10 finishes and 24 laps led over the past six races.

In his hand, Baldwin carried a broken part wrapped in a white towel, and said driver David Reutimann did nothing wrong when he stopped on the track with three laps to go in the race.

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver passed teammate Matt Kenseth for the lead with 28 laps remaining.

Lost in the bedlam that was the closing laps of the Goody's Fast Relief 500 was the fact that AJ Allmendinger finished second — a career - best finish for the Penske Racing driver.

David Reutimann and his team owner Tommy Baldwin insisted the No. 10 car had a problem that caused it to stop on the track with three laps to go in Sunday's NASCAR race at Martinsville, but other drivers weren't convinced.

«Kvyat was driving exceptionally slowly and taking the racing line at the end of Q1 when other drivers were attempting to set fast laps and this led to the unnecessary impeding.»

All three drivers mentioned above ended up not finishing the race - Leclerc later clashed with his team - mate and spun, Marciello was out on lap one and Boschung kept going a bit longer.

The 1985 San Marino Grand Prix had a bizarre and dramatic ending when most of the drivers left in the race at that point ran out of fuel in the closing laps.

Manuel Maldonado was one of several drivers caught up in one of the multiple incidents on the opening lap of this MRF Formula 2000 race in Chennai

The lap times mean basically nothing, the drivers are rarely pushing as much as they could, and anything you can learn from them loses a lot of relevance because by the time of the race, the track conditions are completely different.

The Chip Ganassi Racing driver finished sixth last year after leading 202 laps.

«After 20 laps I wanted to drink and there was water coming on my neck but not in my mouth so I was like «OK, race is gonna be long,»» said the Toro Rosso driver.

12:08 p.m. — After an iffy forecast earlier in the week, meteorologist and SB Nation contributor Brian Neudorff believes the rain will hold off until later in the afternoon — meaning, this could be a race to halfway (100 laps) as the race would then be official and theoretically increase the intensity, with drivers eschewing patience from the onset in an effort to get to the front as soon as possible.

The intent was to bring the performance level of the three manufacturers closer inline where one doesn't hold an overwhelming superiority like Toyota had last season where its drivers combined to win 16 of 36 races and saw Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch finish 1 - 2 in the championship and each lead over 2,000 laps.

It's not often we see final corner, last lap overtake but that's exactly what happened in race two of the 2017 Toyota Racing Series» penultimate race and it ultimately secured the driver the title.

At such short notice Dale Coyne Racing called up Australian driver James Davison was called up to replace him at for the Indy 500 and performed well, running at the front for a while and even leading briefly before crashing out 17 laps from the end.

You rarely expect to see incidents on the formation lap, but these two MRF Challenge Formula 1600 drivers suffered spins before the race had even began.

Endurance races are now full - on sprints, with drivers required to push the cars to their maximum for every lap of every stint.

When a massive thunderstorm brought the race to a halt on lap 33 the drivers began to line up on the grid, and a pumped - up Felipe Massa was pretty keen to make sure he had the right visor for when the race restarted (which, of course, it wouldn't).

Along with Esteban Ocon he's racing at Monaco for the first time, and getting the laps in is more important for a driver here than anywhere else.

More powerful MGU - K with focus on manual driver deployment in race together with option to save up energy over several laps to give a driver controlled tactical element to racing

Drivers and teams disliked the new slow and twisty section (which resulted in race laps of over two minutes), which had the opposite effect to what was intended and actually seemed to reduce overtaking.

Pros: Potential for jumbled - up grids, you get to follow every lap of every driver Cons: Not always entirely fair, less track action for fans trackside, drivers qualifying with race fuel was always bad

Drivers have a limited amount of them to use during the race, and although they can only use it when they're within a second of the car ahead at the start of the lap, they can do so at whatever part of the track they like, and for three times on that lap.

That was exactly the situation in the Toyota 86 Racing Series at Newcastle, leaving several drivers trying to make up a few spots on the final lap.

The Ferrari driver had another weekend to forget after contact with Valtteri Bottas on the first lap, picked up a puncture mid-race and eventually retired from the race late on.

Over the final few laps the racing became seriously intense, with drivers going four - wide for the lead and coming close to hitting each other on multiple occasions.

Whilst all eyes were on the dramatic, tyre - bursting conclusion to the championship up at the front, Tambay came home in last place, 12 laps down and unclassified - not a fitting end from the former Ferrari driver and two - time race winner.

The 35 - year - old is the only female driver to lead laps in both the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500 and holds the highest finishing position for a female driver in each race.

It's the main event of the Super GT season as teams and drivers tackle 173 laps of the legendary circuit in a race lasting the best part of six hours.

The most successful driver in F1 history has also raced the most laps in the sport too.

With so many races now on the calendar, drivers are racking up huge lap tallies.

In the closing laps five drivers - Francois Cevert, Ronnie Peterson, Howden Ganley, Peter Gethin, and Mike Hailwood - were in with a chance of winning, and none of them had ever won a race before.

We started the lap in the old pitlane, so it wasn't until we reached the start - finish straight (after my stomach had already been tied in knots) that I got to experience just what a race driver sees when faced with the daunting up - hill climb ahead of them.

Drivers had to start Q3 with the amount of fuel they were going to start the race with, which meant that much of the session was spent watching cars driving around trying to use as much fuel as possible in order to make their car as light as possible for their flying laps.

Narain Karthikeyan was that driver, his HRT coming home in 24th place, three laps down on winner Sebastian Vettel, in what was a thoroughly uneventful race.

Moving to the mid-way point of the race, after a long safety car for that lap one clash, and it was two more Jenzer drivers in the wars.

The Monegasque driver was leading the race when his Prema team gambled on a late pitstop with eight laps to go, which is almost unheard of in F2 (formerly GP2) sprint races.