Sentences with phrase «on slick tyres»

The New Hudson - based Corvette Racing team elected to start on slick tyres with Gavin in the driving seat, only for rain to fall as the cars left the grid.

Olly and engineer Chuck Houghton took the bold decision to stay out on slick tyres, giving Corvette the advantage over its rivals.

The young racers be able to work with the Clio to improve their pace, but the limits aren't so high that only a handful of competitors best able to exploit the car - as might happen on slick tyres and with more power - will run away with things.

On slick tyres.

It's a pity room wasn't found in its near - five - hour running time for more of Carlos Sainz Jnr's superb drive in China, particularly his heroic lap one effort on slick tyres.

Marussia gambled on putting both drivers out on slick tyres at the end of Q1 and the track dried out quicker than expected, putting both Bianchi and Max Chilton through to Q2.

Not exact matches

The Toyota driver was struggling with slick tyres on a wet track and ended up losing a place to Hamilton with just a couple of corners to go.

A damp circuit meant pretty much everyone was ready to start the race on wet tyres, but shortly before the start, everyone decided that actually, the track was probably dry enough, so pushed their bikes to the pitlane to swap to one with slicks.

The way you can lean on the nose - even tighten the line, then tighten it again without any of that that scrubby feeling from the tyres - is very commanding and something you rarely find without the benefit of wings and slick tyres.

New five - spoke forged alloy wheels (Satin black on the yellow cars, High Power Silver on the black ones) are a slightly wider diameter to accommodate slick tyres, for those who don't feel the standard fit Yokohama AO48s provide enough trackday grip.

The Senna GTR's chief weapon is likely to be the sheer amount of grip it can generate on the race track, partly attributable to a new design of wheel shod with Pirelli slick tyres, its revised suspension and wider tracks.

Buried within each of the FXX K's slick Pirelli P Zero tyres was a sensor that transmitted relevant information to the car's on - board computers so it could utilise every possible ounce of grip.

I have never driven something so punchy that doesn't live exclusively on a circuit and enjoy the benefits of vast rear slick tyres.

«After initially fitting rain tyres, then the Michelin Hybrid, the LMP1 teams switched to soft low temperature and soft high temperature slicks depending on their respective strategies.»

Specific changes include new settings for all - wheel drive vehicles, heating performance changes for cars with slick tyres, and even engine performance differences depending on temperature and air density.

The track - only model will run on slick Michelin racing tyres used on LMP1 cars in the World Endurance Championship.

I'm assuming you mean Pilot Sport Cup 2, which is the semi slick tyre also OEM tyre for GT3, as opposed to Pilot Super Sport which is a road tyre standard on cars like M5 and M135i.

The SEAT has done this time on semi slick track tyres that will not be sold with the car.

This is further helped by an aggressive front splitter and slick tyres on 19 - inch forged wheels with F1 - style centrelock hubs.

The front track is 80 mm wider than the road - going McLaren P1 ™ and with its aggressively profiled front splitter, the also car sits 50 mm lower to the ground on centre - locking 19 - inch motorsport alloy wheels shod with Pirelli slick tyres.

It runs on 19in centre - locking motorsport alloy wheels with slick Pirelli tyres.

As a consequence of being based on the 911 GT3 RS, this is the first 911 GT3 Cup car to feature the 44 - millimetre (1.73») wider body at the rear, which provides increased space for even larger wheels and slick tyres.

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