When you fire up the game you get the now obligatory video intro with an opening montage of quiet, peaceful and empty tracks which quickly have their serenity blasted away by a thunderous pack of souped up, maxed up
out of racing cars.
Not exact matches
Car demand is waning now but the need for speed isn't, so the automaker is rolling
out a fresh hot rod that's a sign
of the times: its first
race - ready SUV.
Taking America
out of the running in the global
race to clean up our
cars can only lead to the next wave
of bankruptcies and bailouts.
I was embarrassed and tried to explain that we aren't all like that, and NASCAR goes
out of its way to exhibit ostentatious displays
of military patriotism, and tie that to their
car race.
Right after I finished photographing these tarts — I
raced out of the house to get to the
car wash before the place closed.
McQueen is literary pushed
out of racing by the younger generation
of fast
cars.
The last
race in Mexico saw only two
cars out of six finish the
race, highlighting the poor reliability.
Daniel Ricciardo isn't holding
out much hope for
racing to be better at other tracks this season because the current generation
of cars are too big and too aerodynamically complex
If Fernando gets a bit fed up 24 - hour
races, then there is a 12 - hour
race out there which is known for being just as challenging, bumpy, and
car - breaking as any
of the classics like Daytona or Le Mans - no, no the 12 Hours
of Sebring, but 12 Hours
of Lawnmower
racing.
This all built up to a huge crash with 19 hours remaining, after Pierre Kaffer's No. 82 Ferrari was barged
out of the way by Matthieu Vaxiviere's No. 28 TDS
Racing LMP2
car.
He also vomited in his helmet during the
race, and when he got
out of the
car afterwards he could only make it a few steps before collapsing from exhaustion.
the following year Alfa had stiff competition from Ferrari - mainly because the
car drank petrol like it was going
out of fashion - and the team «only» won four
of the seven
races it entered.
Drivers need to have razor - sharp concentration to get the best lap times
out of the
car, especially those at the wheel
of prototypes as they weave their way through slower
racing machines.
If it really is as close as Renault suspect, we could see teams that are comfortably finishing with both
cars in the points at one
race struggling to get
out of Q1 at the next.
Because Daytona hosts plenty
of racing at night the
cars also went
out in the dark, so driver Martin Lanting also got some great footage
of him lapping the track under lights.
If it came
out in the middle
of the
race the
cars would stop, as you'd expect, but when the
race got underway again behind the safety
car, it was almost like a completely different
race.
Last year Ferrari decided to opt
out of sports -
car racing, after a multitude
of very successful seasons, and concentrate on Grand Prix
racing instead.
Twenty - four hours later, when co-driver Lucien Bianchi, his red hair still neat, his mustache trim, climbed
out, the men and the
car had thoroughly crushed what seemed to be the indomitable pursuit
of a Le Mans title by the high - powered Porsche
racing organization.
It's just seemed a bit
of a reckless decision to decide to put the
car on blocks and start pulling pieces
out of the engine when the first
races were looming.
He pitted behind the safety
car at the end
of the first lap, and when title contender Fernando Alonso emerged from his stop later in the
race he came
out behind the Renault.
The Monterey Motorsports Reunion event at the epic Laguna Seca circuit is one
of the stand -
out historic
racing events
of the whole year, as all sorts
of different
cars take to the track for a series
of short demonstrations and
races.
whereupon Gordon speared Cheever's
car, knocking both Cheever and himself
out of the
race.
F1
racing under floodlights at night is always a stunning spectacle and the
cars sparked into life when the lights went
out, with Valtteri Bottas leading into Turn 1, ahead
of Vettel and Hamilton.
From being fastest by 11 seconds in a wet practice session, to driving his
car flat
out with three wheels, to managing to win
races with an absolute dog
of a
car (and so much more), Gilles cemented his place as an all - time great.
Di Grassi had started near the back
of the grid but even with the extra stop managed to finish 2nd behind
race winner and reigning champion Sébastien Buemi after a well - timed pit stop behind the safety
car, which came
out after Lopez's accident.
Apart from there obviously being more
races this year, having two extra
cars on the grid (Haas) no doubt helped, as did the number
of times fast
cars were
out of position on the grid due to mechanical issues, penalties, or weather conditions in qualifying.
And it was a big threat too, as four Renault - powered
cars dropped
out of the
race with problems, including teammate Daniel Ricciardo.
Thankfully no - one hit it, but in the jam driver Matt Kenseth (who had been fighting for the win) made contact with the back
of another
car, ultimately putting him
out of the
race.
As the
race goes on, you feel like the
car is
out of control.
The revised M16B couldn't mange pole position and the works
cars dropped
out of the
race, but Mark Donahue's Penske - run entry survived to take the first win for McLaren at Indianapolis.
He had to push his
car across the line though as he'd run
out of fuel, so if you really wanted to you could say his
car didn't reach the finish
of any
races that year!
During the 1973 Talladega 500 driver Bobby Isaac heard a voice tell him to get
out of his
car, so the Hall
of Famer pulled into the pits and quit the
race.
Hans - Joachim Stuck will be
out in a Porsche 962c - a
car which remained competitive in various guises in sportscar
racing for the best part
of a decade.
He also said that he didn't know if they would build and develop a GTE
car themselves or source the work
out to «McLaren GT», the company that currently handles McLaren's GT
racing activities (jeez, just how many branches
of of McLaren are there?!).
The sport got its first look at the new restart rule during the second
race of the opening round
of the season at Hockenheim after an incident on the first lap brought
out the safety
car... and it made for an epic run down to the first corner.
The high speeds
of the old Spa layout could be tough on
cars, and it proved in the 1968
race as everyone who led eventually dropped
out.
When I jump in the
car, I put my legs inside the cockpit, the mechanics put the belts on, [I think] when I take the belts off and I pull myself
out of the
car maybe I am the winner
of this
race - I was thinking that in this moment.
Unfortunately for Jenson Button that's exactly what happened at Monaco in 2010, and by the time McLaren had noticed it was too late - Button's engine overheated behind the safety
car and he was
out of the
race.
The «winner»
of the
race, Fred Lorz, actually dropped
out of the
race nine miles in, was picked up in a
car by his manager, then ran the final seven miles
of the
race after the
car broke down.
He started sixth and spent the first part
of the
race well inside the top 10 but smoke pouring
out of his
car signalled his retirement on lap 15.
With he and several other drivers
out of contract at the end
of the year Alonso is seeking a
race - winning
car, and has made it clear he'll leave McLaren if he doesn't think things will improve for next season.
It was a massive shame for Massa to end his home
race that way but no matter, instead he got
out of his
car and walked down the pitlane (which was closed due his crash) to huge cheers from the crowd as he held a Brazilian flag with pride.
The Swede crashed
out of the
race behind the safety
car, while trying to unlap himself, shunting into the Turn 1 wall.
With his F3
car stuck in the middle
of the track, the marshals couldn't get the yellow flags
out in time before Guan Yu Zhou ploughed into the side
of him at
racing speed.
Both
car and driver were fine as both were back
out for the final
race of the weekend.
«I'm delighted that the team has now formally announced that I will continue to
race for them next year, because I'll be able to approach the second half
of my rookie season with total focus on the job in hand: namely getting the very most I can
out of my
car, my engineers, and everything and everyone around me.
The 1995 Australian GP was very much a
race of attrition, with many front - runners dropping
out and just eight
cars making the finish.
The Aussie took over the wheel from Martin Brundle and took the
car out for a driver around Abu Dhabi ahead
of the
race at Yas Marina.
The whole front end
of the
car was severely damaged and it looked like a lost cause but somehow Toyota repaired the
car and got the No. 7 back
out to finish the
race, albeit 38 laps down.
The British driver has been aided by a dominant
car in recent years, but managing to stay
out of trouble on track for 28 consecutive
races is an incredible feat.