Sentences with phrase «like championship race»

Not exact matches

So with the final race of the season coming up this weekend at Homestead — and the championship on the line for Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, Joey Logano, and Kyle Busch — this seemed like the perfect time to talk to Brian.

The result was a major championship schedule that looked something more like horse racing's triple crown, a nearly untenable travel schedule for players, and a fourth major championship that many fans might just look over due to the temporary, crammed - in date.

Schemes like the Red Bull programme and its Mercedes / Ferrari counterparts pretty much cover all the costs of a race season, meaning that in the championships that followed such as Formula Renault 3.5 and GP2 Gasly didn't need to find money or a good seat, because Red Bull was helping to sort it all out for him.

Firstly, he looks like a driver ready to fight for a championship and secondly, the future of the Red Bull Racing team is very much built around keeping Verstappen happy.

«We can focus on looking forward and having the opportunity to race for the championship with this group of guys and have fast pit stops like they've been doing all year long.»

But therein lies the problem: Hamlin and his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team haven't been anywhere near as consistent as they were last year, when he looked like the championship favorite.

That's because Lopez, like Formula E championship leader Sebastien Buemi, is missing New York to race for Toyota in the FIA World Endurance Championship at the Nurburgring.

It's a sucky situation all - round, as nobody likes to see a championship decided like that, and Gasly is going to be left twiddling his thumbs on a weekend where he should have been racing something, somewhere.

We've got a chance to course - correct with 2021, looks like, but we need to do that now because I think Formula 1 will be much more entertaining and therefore more valuable to all of us if we have four, five, six teams winning races, that have a chance at a championship.»

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.

Soper was keen to help teammate Harvey out in the championship, but it looked like that was all over when he was spun out at the first corner of the race.

To say we are in the race to win the Champions League, is like saying Force India are in the race to win the F1 constructors championship!

But just like Red Bull Racing is also a benchmark, at the end of the day if you want to be fighting for the championship in a few years time we have to be at a capacity to beat everyone, not just McLaren.»

Hamilton was fine, but he'll be starting the race from pretty much right at the back, much to the annoyance of Sebastian Vettel, who probably wished he'd made an error like that a couple of race ago when he still had a chance of the championship.

In 2003 van Buren won the Dutch karting championship but, like so many other young racers, had to give his racing aspirations when the money ran out.

There was just three points between championship rivals Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix and with Vettel on pole position, it looked like the championship was going to go right down to the final race.

«We're a big team that knows how to win races and championships so I think most of the teams, while it's a shame to see where we are, they like us where we are.

He did and now, following a season - opening performance of 6.63 in France at the end of last month — his first race since June — the 2014 world indoor champion has every intention of being in contention to find out what it feels like to win at a major championships in front of a home crowd in Birmingham in a few weeks» time.

During the championship, Valentino will ask you to take part in different events like drifting, flat, R1M - only races, and rally in order to improve his abilities.

In Lipsitz's movie, air guitarists of all ages, races and creeds strum their way from regional competitions (in Salem, Ore., a 6 - year - old girl jams to Nirvana's «Smells Like Teen Spirit» against a 21 - year - old bad boy) to the U.S. championships to the world contest, held in Finland.

By providing such a small selection of racing locales and cars in Forza 5, it feels like Turn 10 is banking on players falling in love with a vehicle, drooling over the interiors, and tuning it up and down the class ranks while taking on the game's various championship series.

Gianluca opens the hood to show off the supercharged 6.2 - liter V - 8 engine tuned by industry masters Claudio Lombardi, ex-Scuderia Ferrari director, and Mario Cavagnero, the man behind the Lancia Racing team and father of championship - winning cars like the famous Integrale and 037.

Under the bonnet is a race - adjusted version of the road M6's twin - turbo 4.4 - litre V8 engine, which like the GT3, will suffer from the effects of championship power limitations.

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But what really sets the championship apart from the likes of Formula 1, is the amount of variety each race offers - cars that are barely slower than F1 cars circulate tracks with cars based on road - going models.

College: San Jose State Favorite Racing Series: MotoGP Favorite Racer: Wayne Rainey Favorite Sport Activities: Coaching my kids in soccer and softball First Time You Realized You Like Racing: Standing on the grid at the 2005 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix Favorite Book: Wild & Outside Favorite movie: Gladiator Favorite music: U2, Led Zepplin and David Lee Roth's Van Halen Hobbies: Playing sports with my kids Something no one else knows about you: I own three baseball championship rings

«Obviously, I'd love to get a win here again, like I did last year, my first win in ALMS, but at the end of the day is the championship and finishing the race and keeping the nose of the car clean, give it to Oliver and let him work his magic like he did last year.»

For sure we would have liked to win the race but I will trade that for a championship any day.

OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 4 MOBIL 1 / SIRIUS - XM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R: «As a driver, you dream about coming to a race like Petit Le Mans with a lead in the championship.

Honestly, in the middle of the race it kind of looked like a situation of «OK, we aren't losing too much in the championship — a couple of points here, a couple of points there, but we would still stay in the lead of the championship.»

Transmission «race tested» in the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo championship series Like the race car, the Gallardo Super Trofeo Stradale offers the robotized e-gear six - speed transmission controlled by steering wheel paddles as standard equipment.

In the hyper - competitive world of GT racing, keeping the finer details of a car like the C7.R under lock and key might give this factory team an advantage, so GM has directed its Corvette drivers and personnel to maintain silence when asked about the replacement for its championship - winning C6.R chassis.

And like each previous race this season, two Mobil 1 / SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs are on the entry list — the No. 3 Corvette for Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen and the championship - leading No. 4 Corvette of Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner.

Sadly there is no championship modes or anything like that, so it's one race at a time.

Rounding out of the package is the standard modes like time trial, quick race and championship in case you want to race a season with a bit less faffing around than the full career mode.

During your first season you'll compete in the Moto3 championship with the aim of progressing up the ladder into Moto2 and then eventually onto the MotoGP championship racing alongside the likes of Valentino Rossi and last year's winner Jorge Lorenzo.

The game plays as you would expect it, like a retro top down racing game, each vehicle handles differently for instance the sports car will throw it's rear end out and drift at any possible chance whereas the motorbike accelerates faster than anything else and can whip around corners with ease, this all adds to the difficulty increment when working your way through the championship cups, I found the Sports Car to be the most difficult to manage and the Formula wasn't too easy either!

Developer Polyphony Digital eschewed GT's dated structure to pull a page from more serious PC sims like iRacing, which inspire communities of competition through scheduled daily events, championships and a balance - of - performance system that keeps the racing close.

This feature is designed to give users the opportunity to be part of the most competitive and highest - profile off - road motorcycle racing championship in the world like never before; creating, customising and sharing online their own tracks for endless gameplay possibilities.

Now that may not sound like the worst thing in the world to most people, but when the developers of the game are the same guys who have been in charge of near every notable bike racing release in recent years, it would be nice to see them come up with something a little more exciting than simply racing to a championship win.

Really enjoying playing but I have since discovered it's not as easy to pick up and play as previous Gran Turismo games, Gone are the cup championships and having to pass your licences to play the more advanced races, this is just a series of singles races, on single tracks and trying to beat 3 levels of difficulty and the tracks are unlocked as you earn experience and level up, also there aren't as many tracks or cars as any of the previous versions and seems a little like the limited Prologue game that was released at a cheaper price, I'm assuming it's more geared towards online racing, which I haven't tried yet because sometimes you just want to play your way without interfering with somebody else's game, nothing worse than going into a race and have some random person ruin your game by crashing into you or just cheating their way to win.

casts everyone's favorite birds in a kart - racing game, which not only includes championship racing against the piggies, but also some interesting mini games like mowing down fruit for coins.

Unlocking new vehicles just took longer than I would like, though there is a custom race mode to assuage your longings and you can race in any vehicle to your hearts content and practice those courses to crush your next attempt at a championship.

The Storm Island expansion adds six iconic cars and trucks to the game, including a brand new barn find car, as well as off - road upgrades, 24 new championships including new off - road race modes like Brawl, Rampage, Extreme Cross Country and Gauntlet, additional Bucket List challenges, Xbox Live Achievements, online events, and much more!