Sentences with phrase «pit box»

Segal was part of the team's class - winning entry in 2016, alongside Bill Sweedler and Townsend Bell, and was forced to watch the race from the team's pit box in June, admitting he'd trade a full - season WeatherTech SportsCar Championship seat for an opportunity to return to Le Mans.
The weekend's pre-race «Roar 24» test featured a pre-qualifying session which determined the allocation of pit boxes for the race; Fernando and his United Autosports teammates, Lando Norris and Phil Hanson, ended it only 12th.
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Luca Ghiotto's car was in the Trident pit box when a wheel got loose and attempted to escape across the fast lane.
Winner and guest will be honorary pit crew members on a JR Motorsports team at the 2016 NASCAR Xfinity Series event of their choice, including pit / garage access, hauler tour, pit box tour, VIP gift bag, and travel expenses.
One of those, of course, came at Interlagos, where he qualified and finished a pretty comfortable third - despite getting a penalty in the race for speeding in the pitlane and stopping in the wrong pit box during a stop!
After crashing out of his final Brazilian GP, Massa was met by this welcome in the pit lane as he walked back to the Williams pit box.
Moments after the wreck Busch climbed onto the Riggs pit box to unleash a few choice words on Riggs's crew chief, Rodney Childers.
Unfortunately as he did not comply with the Formula E regulations of safely bringing his car into the desired pit box, Bird was smacked with a drive - through penalty - something he did comply with and incredibly came out on track still in first place, with second place man Jean - Eric Vergne closely on his tail.
I make a habit each year of walking the pit lane from north (pit exit) to south (pit entrance), to see which teams are occupying which pit boxes and things like that.
Its glass slipper shattered at the start / finish line; what should have been the race - winning car broke down between the packed front straight grandstands and the team's overcrowded pit box.
While a major part of their success comes from videotaping and analyzing their daily practice sessions held in a simulated pit box behind their shop, this year the team has also focused on improving their physical fitness.
While Potter's co-driver for its planned WeatherTech Championship return has yet to be identified, longtime Magnus driver Andy Lally, who raced for Michael Shank Racing's factory Acura NSX GT3 program this year, was on the team's pit box in last weekend's California 8 Hours at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, assisting with race strategy.
Second prize will allow the winner and a guest to be honorary pit crew members on a JR Motorsports team at the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series event of their choice, including pit / garage access, hauler tour, pit box tour, VIP gift bag, and travel expenses.
After all, why waste time using the pit entry when you can spawn way up into the sky and then swoop down into your pit box?
Now, if you turn the manual functions on, you have to select the pit limiter and deactivate it at entry and exit, and also pull away from your pit box at the right time.
McMurray also jumped in the standings, from 21st to 14th, after Osborne replaced Jimmy Fennig atop his pit box.
After Kurt Busch caused Greg Biffle to wreck during theSamsung / RadioShack 500, Biffle's girlfriend, Nicole Lunders, who was watchingfrom Biffle's pit box, slammed a water bottle to the ground in fury and, infull view of TV cameras, marched to Busch's pit, where she confronted EvaBryan, Busch's fiancée.
In addition to having his name on Logano's car, Curtis also attended the pre-race drivers meeting, met other drivers, is watching the Food City 500 from a seat atop Logano's pit box, and he and Logano have matching firesuits.
The finish line was located before Ferrari's pit box, so he'd actually crossed the line to win before he'd even taken his penalty.
With one car charging down the pit lane and another one stuttering out of the pit box, this was never going to end well
Cars will drive into the pit box, get all four tires changed, have their gas tanks refilled, and then race to a finish line approximately 100 yards away.
He committed frequent blunders, speeding on pit road, overshooting his pit box, not trusting his instincts (a cardinal sin) and causing crashes.
When Johnson wenton to take the checkered flag at Daytona with team engineer Darian Grubbsitting atop the pit box in Knaus's place, Knaus was watching from hisliving - room couch, eating popcorn.
It was no coincidence that with a chilled - out Chad atop the pit box, the number 48 team stayed strong late in the season for the first time in fouryears.
Shortly after leaving the pit box, the left - rear wheel of Leist's car came off, thankfully stopping short of rolling onto the live race track.
In the race, the mechanics failed to change Raikkonen's car's left rear tyre, and with a mechanic in the way, Ferrari gave their driver the go - ahead to leave his pit box, resulting in contact with the mechanic.
Pass the chequered flag, either online or offline, and after a few seconds you'll be teleported to your pit box — watching as AI or human opponents pop into existence behind you.
F1 2017 has range, and when you're sitting in the pit box you'll hear the track commentator relaying genuine real - time information.
Each driver will pull into the pit box around half way through each race in order to change vehicles, before speeding away to complete the race.
A temporary pit lane and pit boxes were set up at the series» home circuit of Donington Park to mimic the setup used at each of the city - based street circuits the series will visit between September and the final round in London in June 2015.
In the middle of a frustrating 2011 season, Lambert was unexpectedly promoted to the top spot on the pit box for Burton's car, making him Cup's youngest crew chief.
I wish I'd seen all their reactions in the pit box as it must have been quite something!
I radioed that I was coming in literally seconds before turning into the pit lane, yet they were ready to change the tire when I arrived in the pit box.
The twin Corvette C6.Rs waited patiently in their pit boxes for the first five minutes of the 20 - minute qualifying session.
Magnussen replaced Johnny O'Connell and was just leaving the pit box when the Emmanuel Collard was pulling into the # 4 pit box.
Running on low fuel, Magnussen ran of E85 on his cool - down lap, while Gavin made it back to his pit box on fumes.
I was held up behind a prototype coming into the pits, and the run into our pit box was partially blocked so we lost some spots.
Corvette Racing's Marcel Fassler leaves the pit box in the No. 4 Corvette C7.R to start Saturday's afternoon practice session at Daytona International Speedway.
It's very difficult going from the pit box to the fast line and checking your mirror, and on top of that checking to see if the red light is on.
Once back at the pit box the team made the call that the car couldn't be made race ready in the time left, so that was that.»
Our stops were heavily choreographed and I was watching the Crew Chief, Brian, and the Wand Man and anticipating the moment to release the clutch and leave the pit box.
The packed schedule included a 15 - minute qualifying session to determine assignments for the pit boxes and garages when teams return later this month for the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
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