Sentences with phrase «laps around his car»

Maybe each time he is waiting for a fare or stuck in the cab queue at the airport he could take a couple of laps around his car.

Take a lap around the car and you'll notice the uniformity of the lines - its hood, doors, fenders and trunk all line up with admirable precision.

Not exact matches

It came within a corner of winning the Indianapolis 500 in 2011 with JR Hildebran but the driver crashed trying to get around a lap car and finished second to the late Dan Wheldon.

Dressed in his blue Knicks practice shorts, he stepped out of the car and slowly walked to the building, where six people were waiting for him: Laura Tate, a 28 - year - old aspiring model from Los Angeles who had conducted a 15 - month affair with Johnson; Tate's father, Dennis; her lawyer; two lab workers; and a three - month - old girl named Taylor Tate Johnson, who was resting quietly in Laura's lap, oblivious to the awkward situation around her.

After a restart following a caution caused by Martin Truex Jr.'s spin off Turn 4, Keselowski hounded Busch around the half - mile track, riding the No. 18's car bumper for 14 laps before making the winning pass with 43 laps remaining.

... It's really hard to see your car out there running around, turning laps without you in it.

Over the final laps, Brad Keselowski challenged Hamlin several times, but could never find a way around the No. 11 car.

The WEC paid a stunning tribute to Audi's contribution to endurance racing ahead of their last ever race by allowing both cars to lead the field around the first formation lap.

His clutch had pretty much exploded and although he tried to coast around the car was done, and he pulled off, just half a lap away from home.

Edoardo Mortara damaged his car and spectacularly drifted his way around the lap, whilst Felix Rosenqvist clipped the wall but still took pole by almost seven - tenths of a second.

«You had to take care of your tires and be smart about how you drove the car and driving the car straight, not really swinging the car around or getting sideways, and when you get around another car or a lap car you had to be careful to drive the car straight when you got around them.

Being too tall means extra weight, which obviously can mean less flexibility for teams to move ballast around the car, therefore leading to slower lap times - something Marcus Ericsson knows all about.

The 38 - year - old driver was on his third of four qualifying laps when he lost control of his No. 18 Honda - powered car and slammed nearly head - on into the outside Turn 2 wall, then spun around and flipped once before coming to a stop on the backstretch.

But the cars will at least be a lot faster, with lap times expected to be around four seconds per lap faster at most circuits, and as much as 10 seconds at Le Mans

With two laps to go there was another major shunt when 2017 winner Kurt Busch when spun around by the bright yellow Penske car of Ryan Blaney (who'd led most of the race), triggering a 13 - car crash.

At Talladega in 2003 the last few laps were completed without incident, but as the massive pack of cars started to slow down after taking the flag Bobby Labonte got turned around in the middle of the pack, triggering a multi-car pileup.

After all, lapping traffic at night at Le Mans is very different to putting in a qualifying lap at Monaco, and threading a rally car through the Finnish forests is a completely different ball game to doing a donut around an aeroplane.

After regular driver Sebastien Buemi did 10 laps of setup work on the car, Alonso jumped in and pounded around for much of the rest of the day, completing 113 laps.

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.

Bring jump ropes they can play with right there by the car as you fuel up; do jumping jacks; play «Simon Says»; run laps around the gas station (with them for safety).

Idziak would let Billy sit on his lap while he drove his car around North Tonawanda, Janet Larango said.

Texas A&M was the only team on the track for all of the four main categories, which tested a car's electric - powered acceleration; general acceleration (fuel or electric); maneuverability and handling; and endurance — all over 22 kilometers (40 laps around the track).

If one truck load of pyrolysis oil is mixed with black liquor and converted into fuel, the total volume is sufficient to drive a car ten laps around Earth.

The run course is two laps of a car - free loop in and around the college grounds.

It will admittedly take a while to figure out the best setup for your racing car but thankfully the game offers to let you drive test laps around the track before each race, so you can plan your experience accordingly.

Instructors led packs of Challengers, Chargers, and Vipers around the road course at varying speeds, stopping after three or four laps for a car change, to give us a chance to sample the track while still getting acquainted with the proper driving lines.

When Orcutt and Connolly saddle up the Mazda6 and the RX - 8 for VIP laps, they leave me in the MX - 5 to chase them around and get a feel for the car on my own.

Former Formula 1 driver and Audi Sport ABT team member Lucas di Grassi and e.dams Renault driver Sebastien Buemi set the early pace in testing, with lap times around Donington in the cars» full - power qualifying trim just a few tenths shy of Formula 3 cars.

The initial issue was around the warm air that, on the coupe, escapes through the air - vent in the front bonnet and up and over the car and across the rear deck; with no roof the 70 - degree C air would head over the header rail into the laps of the passengers.

Our third video puts two insane track - focused sports cars together in a lap battle around Anglesey

At Car & Driver's lightning lap the M2 was 3 to 7 seconds faster around VIR than any TT RS.

The Golf GTI Clubsport S posted a 7 min 47 second lap around the circuit in December 2016 — a blistering time on a par with cars like the 997 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Lamborghini Murcielago and BMW M3 GTS.

A few laps in the car around the equally satisfying former Formula 1 Estoril circuit, which is short, narrow and fairly tight, backed this up.

This was a very limited test — a V - 6 car and only two laps around GM's proving grounds.

Around Donington, the ERA lapped three seconds off the pace of the GT3, which is as good a track car as you can buy.

That's no longer true, as Nissan «s released revised lap times for the car around the famed Nurburgring track.

The Pagani Zonda R recently set a new lap record for a production - derived sports car around the Nürburgring's Nordschleife.

At least that's the theory; even so, it takes all the steel you can muster to select fifth gear and keep your right foot planted beyond 110 mph for the first few laps (OK, the entire first day), the car weaving and dancing around alarmingly.

Watching the speed at which the Porsche 918 Spyder makes its way around the racetrack, it's not hard to believe the car's amazing 6 minute, 57 second lap around the Nürburgring.

Thanks to Google Street View, Lotus enthusiasts can now take a virtual lap on the British automaker's private test track.Lotus recently invited Google to take a look around Lotus» Headquarters in Hethel, England, giving enthusiasts a look at where the sports cars are produced and tested.

The R32 GT - R had the record for a production car around the Nürb, and so did the R33 V - Spec (first to lap under 8 min if i'm not mistaken).

The average Aston buyer has surely different priorities than Porsche's, the former will be LESS interested in lap - times or how fast its car goes around corners (at the end of the day this is the only key advantage of Porsche sports cars).

R, roll - cage, Cup tyres car that set a nifty 7:54 lap record around the Nordschleife.

We won't reveal which car was faster around the track, though we will say the NSX threw down a lap time of 1:36.36.

Both cars put down pretty impressive lap times around the Green Hell.

While setting lap times in a road car for a magazine story, or when running around on a track day, I'm always acutely aware of the consequences of having an off.

Legendary rally racer, Tony Pond, set out in 1988 with his Rover Vitesse to try and become the first production car to average a 100 mph lap around the island, but Pond's attempt was an unsuccessful one.

For a car as multi-faceted and complex in character as a luxury GT, it would be foolhardy to draw any sweeping conclusions from a handful of laps around Anglesey Circuit.

In 2009, this exact car set a 7:11:57 lap time around the Nordschleife, making it the quickest production car ever to do so.

It's also the quickest road car ever around Ferrari's Fiorano test track, with a 1min23sec lap.