Sentences with phrase «on oval tracks»

[10] Primarily raced on oval tracks, stock cars vaguely resemble production cars, but are in fact purpose - built racing machines that are built to tight specifications and also called Silhouette racing cars.

What had led me to the magazine was a heavily automobile - flavored childhood: my father raced a modified coupe and late - model stocks on the oval tracks around Omaha, Nebraska, where we lived.

The reason for this choice is that constant - speed races like the Indianapolis 500, which take place on oval tracks, are better for internal combustion engines because those are most efficient at constant speed, yet waste fuel and create extra pollution in stop - start driving.

Because IRL races are run on oval tracks, with grandstands in close proximity, kiting could be disastrous.

Orlando Speed World in Bithlo is racing Friday and Saturday on the oval track, Friday and Sunday on the drag strip.

NOTRA holds 300 ‐ 400 yard races on an oval track.

Run - abouts are a novel way to watch your pet exercise and are available in simple ball shapes, a wheel shape that propels a sport car, and the Hamtrac which is a system that can be used with either the ball or the car on an oval track made of interlocking plastic pieces.

Not exact matches

What's more, Homestead is a 1.5 - mile oval, and Johnson thrives on that kind of intermediate - length track.

By 13 he was a consistent winner on full - size bikes at his home track, Ross Downs, a quarter - mile oval — or short track — near Fort Worth, a 5 1/2 - hour drive from Lubbock.

But performance on a restrictor - plate track doesn't equate to performance on intermediate ovals, the style speedways that makes up the bulk of the Cup Series schedule including four of 10 playoffs.

Earnhardt, who was first and fifth in the two earlier IROC races, averaged 153.316 mph for 50 laps on the two - mile high - banked oval track to collect the $ 175,000 IROC championship purse.

And as do all great physicists, they include some simplifying assumptions: «The track is circular rather than oval, [and] the vehicle is already traveling at a given speed on the vertical banking.»

On an oval test track at Miramas, we put the system to the test when approaching a 70 km / h zone from a 90 km / h one.

Even though I've driven just about every new car on the market, from exotics to econoboxes, my personal top speed in a car was established before I had a driver's license, when my dad rocketed me around the Chelsea Proving Grounds» oval track at 155 mph in a topless Dodge Viper in 1993.

There, pro driver and Ford Performance Driving School director Brian Smith drove the Exorcist Camaro on Continental's 8.5 - mile high - speed oval track to a Racelogic VBox - verified top speed of 217 mph.

As we caravan across the former General Motors proving ground, a silver car shoots by on a steeply banked oval track like the ball on a roulette wheel.

The run was made on the 8.5 mile high speed oval at the Continental Tire Proving Grounds located in Uvalde, Texas — the same test track where John Hennessey test drove the company's HPE700 Mustang to a top speed of 195 mph back in February of this year.

Ford is looking to turn «the world's fastest half - mile» into the world's slowest and most fuel efficient half - mile as the automaker plans to drive 1,000 miles on the Bristol Motor Speedway oval track in the new 2011 Mustang.

The trucks, which are V - 8 powered, race on paved oval tracks.

Still racing: Orlando Speed World oval track and drag strip in Bithlo Friday, and Auburndale Speedway on Saturday.

Friday night, there's racing at the paved oval track and the drag strip at Orlando Speed World in Bithlo, and Saturday night, the dirt oval on the grounds, Orange County Raceway, is scheduled to race mini sprints.

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NASCAR tracks are all based on an oval shape, with minor differences in the tightness of the corners.

Five race locations are included along with a Test Track allowing you to put the Astons through their paces on the track's banked oval, drag strip, hillclimb, skid pan and tight corTrack allowing you to put the Astons through their paces on the track's banked oval, drag strip, hillclimb, skid pan and tight cortrack's banked oval, drag strip, hillclimb, skid pan and tight corners.

Purchasing life insurance for drag racers is virtually the same for dirt track racing and oval tracks on asphalt.

In the 20 years FAST TRACK HIGH PERFORMANCE DRIVING SCHOOL has been in operation, 1000's of people, racers and racing enthusiasts alike, have experienced the unique thrill of driving a stock car on several of the most celebrated oval tracks in the US.

TRACK HIGH PERFORMANCE DRIVING SCHOOL has been in operation, 1000's of people, racers and racing enthusiasts alike, have experienced the unique thrill of driving a stock car on several of the most celebrated oval tracks in the US.

Built on two levels, the mall is tied together by a barrel vault and features an oval, race track - style design, with shopping areas on either side.