Sentences with phrase «of sports car drivers»

That's some serious tire - smoking power that will make plenty of sports car drivers jealous.

Reuss went on to describe his history of owning Corvettes and he finished his presentation with these comments on the C7: «Tadge and the team are doing the next generation Corvette and it will thrill all of the sports car drivers of the future and it will be built right here.»

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In a sport that has ads plastered over nearly every inch of the drivers and their cars, it was a big deal for Bayne to namedrop the Christian charity.

Jan 04,2016... As designer and builder — and occasional driver — of the marvelous winged Chaparral sports car, Jim Hall...

Most pronounced, this past offseason saw NASCAR executives, drivers, car owners, network executives, and track promoters unite in an unprecedented showing of collaboration to combat the growing list of issues within the sport.

This was a weekend dedicated to the proposition that the owner of a sports car should turn up in the driver's seat on race day.

The commission members are former IndyCar team owner Tom Kelley; Tim Clauson, an ex-race car driver and mechanic whose son Bryan started the 2012 Indy 500; Earl Goode, former chairman of Indiana Sports Corp. and a former aide to former Gov. Mitch Daniels; Ryan Kitchell, CEO of Indiana University Health and the state's former public finance director; and Chris Atkins, director of Indiana's Office of Management and Budget.

A vintage - car race served up many of the sport's best surviving drivers as happy participants.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

Article 9.2 of the sporting rules outlines the season - long number allocation, but it also explains that «this number must be clearly visible from the front of the car and on the driver's crash helmet».

Two drivers will make their IZOD IndyCar Series debut this weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, headlined by Luca Filippi for Barracuda Racing and James Davison of Dale Coyne Racing.

He's highly - rated by many in the sport, and given the fact that he's a Mercedes junior driver, it wouldn't be surprising to see him in one of the silver cars at some point in the near future.

As designer and builder — and occasional driver — of the marvelous winged Chaparral sports car, Jim Hall of Texas dares to defy Ford and Ferrari in the classic endurance races

At the meeting Spears, her manager Larry Rudolph and producer Ann Carli, who produced the singer's first feature, Crossroads, pitched NASCAR brass on a story about the daughter of a successful stock car team owner and how the young woman (played by Spears) inspires a former driver to return to the sport.

Guests of Italian descent included House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., the highest - ranking Italian - American in U.S. politics; former race car driver Mario Andretti, who sported socks designed like a checkered racing flag; fashion designer Giorgio Armani; actor John Turturro; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; and actor - director Roberto Benigni.

Dr Andrew Bell, of the Sheffield Methods Institute, used statistical analysis to work out who the sport's most accomplished competitor is — looking at who is the best driver because of their talent, rather than because they have a good car.

i'm athletic, into sports, walks in the country, swimming, have always had a dream of becoming a racing driver, would love to start by buying a small car and doing my own races from there and progressing.

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In Los Angeles, city of cars, a guy can make a living hopping between gigs as a Hollywood stuntman, a mechanic, a sports racer and a getaway driver for bank robbers.

In a bid to keep his very expensive racing team afloat, famed race car driver Briggs Cunningham created a line of high - performance grand touring sports cars, including this gorgeous 1952 Cunningham C3 Continental.

Drivers can press a button in the car to call their concierge, who can then organise everything from hotel room bookings to buying tickets for sporting events, before sending details of all appointments to your satellite navigation.

We'll see if that actually pans out, but for now it's exciting to see that Toyota is making good on their pursuit of more engaging and driver - focused cars, with TMG and rally sport as an excellent testing ground for the GT86 / Scion FR - S.

When Justin Marks, a thirty - two - year - old driver of NASCAR trucks and Grand - Am sports cars, envisioned this facility with his partners, Michael McDowell and Eric Jones, in 2009, he hoped that it would get some buzz in the Charlotte area, especially since the track is located about twenty minutes from Lake Norman, where many drivers live.

Instead of the Grand Touring's navigation system, moonroof, and eleven - speaker stereo, it was the 6's high - bolstered sport seats with leather upholstery that got our attention, since this is a driver's car.

Our staff and group of contributors are no different, represented by track - day rookies all the way to a professional championship - winning sports car driver and everything in between.

Most of this challenging and inspirational route could have been created solely to delight the driver of a new Porsche 911 Carrera S. Germany's iconic sports car provided huge reserves of power and grip while riding better than expected on poor surfaces.

This was a year of driver - enjoyment - oriented sports - cars so I think the best surely has to be one of them.

The Editor reports / Pre-1931 Lanchesters — Chris Clark describes the early models and explains their unique features and advanced specifications / 1955 Lancia Aurelia Spider — This month The Editor gives us his (very favourable) impressions of a rare and delectable sports car / The Voisin Story — The well - known racing driver and author Paul Frere commences a two - part article on this historic manufacturer.

By Bryan Goodman / VSCC Silverstone & Derbyshire Trial — Reports of these two events from Tom Threlfall in his Diary of a dilettante / Silverstone collage — More colour photos of the VSCC race meeting on 11th April / Pre-war saleman's aids — Malcolm Green looks at a series of little publications produced to help salesmen to sell MG cars / Rare Jensen V8 prototype — David Hawtin describes a very interesting prototype sports car built in 1935 / Bert Hadley at Shelsley Walsh — The well - known 1930s Austin works racing driver recalls his memories of the oldest hill - climb / The go - anywhere Citroen — Part one of Malcolm Bobbitt's assessment of the extraordinary half - tracked Kegresse.

A smaller steering wheel is used to give the BRZ that sports car feel, while a tachometer with digital speedometer is placed in the center of the gauge cluster to relay the most important info to the driver.

Albrecht Goertz's gorgeous 503 could not have come at a worse time for BMW, as Douglas Blain explains in Drama Queen / In 1966 and All That, Steve Welsh reports from the unrivalled Goodwood Revival historic race meeting, which this year marked 50 years since Australian driver Jack Brabham won the Formula One World Championship in a car of his construction / Kit Foster tells the story of the American Underslung, the first American sports car, and examines one of the prized survivors of this pioneering but short - lived marque in Swing low, sweet chariot / In his article, Cross-Channel concours, Jörg Sierks chooses his favourites from two prestigious concours events, held on the same weekend on opposite sides of the English Channel / With the help of rarely seen archive photographs, D'Arcy Lever looks back at the highly effective trials specials built by Sydney Allard before World War Two.

The seats are covered in a quality of leather appropriate for a sport / utility that starts at $ 120,825, though the driver's seat lacks the comfort of the brand's cars and other SUVs, which have some of the best, most sumptuous seats in the world, even before you turn on the power massage.

Tire Rack says: The Winter Sottozero 3 is a standout performer and a favorite of drivers looking to keep their sports cars (and with the Scorpion, crossover SUVs) on the road year - round.

As long as you can live with the small back seat and trunk opening, the lack of a manual gearbox, and it being not as communicative of a driver's car as we'd like, the S3 is a very impressive, very fast small sports sedan.

Follow a more powerful sports car along a broken B - road and it'll spend its time weaving and braking around road imperfections, the driver wincing at the prospect of buckling a wheel, but in the Swift, you can simply breeze along.

This was a golden era for motor racing, and sports car competition in particular: cars that could exceed 220mph, and match or even exceed F1 lap times; extreme and often treacherous circuits, from the steep banking of Daytona to the 3.4 - mile straight of Le Mans and the tortuous mountain course of the Targa Florio; hero drivers, facing the ever present prospect of serious injury or worse, the whole vibrant madness immortalised in the film «Le Mans», the ill - fated brainchild of Steve McQueen.

It's good to have a hard core sports car, but you get tired of it quickly, so Peugeot is trying to satisfy all clients by making the car a comfortable daily driver when it needs to be and an efficient sports car when also needs to be.

It's because it's a sport people can relate to as these drivers are in street legal cars and they can be seen driving on public highways between the competitive sections of the rallies.

200,000 people line the streets of the town as Le Mans racing drivers are paraded and sports cars are blasted around the streets, crowds ten or more deep.

Those of us who might be described as overly familiar with the Miata as a modern and reliable European - style sports car will prefer the MX - 5's natural power delivery and the way its very capable steering and handling can push the driver to improve his or her skills on challenging roads.

That kind of focus on nimbleness and driver feedback is expected on a sports car, but it's a pleasant surprise in a seven - passenger crossover that weighs more than 4,000 pounds (about 200 pounds lighter than before).

And despite the addition of the 1000 - pound battery pack, the Roadster is everything a sports car ought to be — agile, responsive to driver inputs, and rewarding at speed.

In fact, since the late 1960s the lower echelons of the Le Mans grid had been awash with 911s, Porsche's iconic sports car rapidly becoming the default choice for the amateur racing driver and independent racing team.

As my co-columnist, Sir Arthur of St. Antoine, pointed out last month, it's a driver's car, an engaging and handsome alternative in a day when too many once - sporting marques have all but imagined themselves into that gray future where driver involvement becomes impersonal, with the wheel man's function akin to that of an old - time keypunch operator.

The purest sports car of the bunch, and the only one with its engine positioned behind the driver, the Alfa Romeo 4C makes up for a lack of displacement with its featherweight footprint.

You have to stifle a chortle as the car defies physical convention, and then, midcorner, its vast 285 - section - width front Michelin Super Sports (a brand - new Cup tire with 9/32 of an inch of tread) claw into the surface and allow the driver to indulge the gas pedal.

Last summer he returned to travel with the MG Car Club's Triple - M Register and experience open air motoring at its invigorating best / Alfa book review / Old Stone Face — A true amateur racing driver, John Broad owned and raced a wide variety of sporting machinery.

That means the end of the car's trademark roof - mounted air intake scoop, but does mean that the driver does now at least stand a sporting chance of being able to see what he or she has just overtaken.

When race drivers and other professors of speed discuss how great sports cars don't need 500 or 600 horsepower, the Cayman is often the first example on their blackboard.

In fact, it was my passion for F1 (soon I boasted an encyclopedic knowledge of the sport and, after college, I saved up enough to attend my first racing school) that helped me get my foot in the door at Car and Driver magazine.