Sentences with phrase «mile straightaway»

Both cars are among the rarified few (Lamborghini's Huracán supercar among them) capable of accelerating past that speed — and braking before running out of road — on the 1.6 - mile straightaway where we conduct acceleration and braking evaluations.

The Hennessey Venom GT reached an impressive 270.49 mph during its record - breaking run on the 3.2 - mile straightaway.

There's an abandoned office park nearby, full of winding esses, quarter - mile straightaways, culs - de-sac, and sharp turns.

Not exact matches

Nick Woodman and I are strapped into the cockpit of a vintage racecar on a winding, narrow road in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, taking cliff - side turns at 60 miles per hour and rocketing up to 100 on the straightaways.

MOTOR SPORTS — WALT HANSGEN, West - field, N.J. throttle jockey, roared Briggs Cunningham's new Lister Jaguar up to 120 mph on straightaway, drove front - running race to win 80 - mile President's Cup feature with 75 - mph average at Upper Marlboro, Md..

El Mouaziz was nearly out of sight by the time his pursuers reached the long straightaway of Manhattan's First Avenue, which begins at 16 miles.

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

The car is blistering fast, and the course is incredibly tight — 2.9 miles of blind corners, hills, and chicanes, with practically no straightaway.

Sure enough, as you choose a turn, there are immaculate and exact 1:1 scale replicas of each of these famous racetracks, more than 30 miles of twists, turns, and straightaways.

The Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA) facility near Birmingham offered a rough cornering pad, a one - mile - long straightaway, and a few moments of dry pavement between wind and rain squalls.

«You have to do it at an outdoor track that has at least a two - mile - long straightaway.

But within an hour's drive of this handsome capital city lie both the delicious winding roads of neighboring country Austria and, within Slovakia itself, the Slovakia Ring, a relatively new and impressively gnarly 3.7 - mile race circuit composed of tortuous long - radius corners and straightaways that arrow far into the heat waves.

But with 1200 horsepower behind me and a mile of straightaway ahead of me, my brain skips a half step ahead of the approved takeoff sequence.

The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport currently holds the Guinness top speed record for production cars at a slightly slower 267.86 mph, but that was the average of upwind and downwind runs at Volkswagen Group's Ehra - Lessien test track, a high speed facility with a 5.4 - mile long straightaway.

The No. 99 Maserati GranTurismo MC GT4 showed strong pace out of the box at the 14 - turn, 4.048 mile road course famous for its long straightaways and ultra-fast corners, resulting in the first podium for the Maserati GT4 in the PWC GTS Class.

Straightaway that creates an anomaly — book an F fare on British Airways (for travel on BA... for example) and you get EQD at 30 % of miles flown but, if you book the F fare through Finnair (for travel on BA) you get EQD at 60 %....

From the early straightaway of mud hills, propel yourself up for a jump, veer to the left as soon as you are mid-air, and if you time it right, you will land miles ahead of your opponents.