Sentences with phrase «pit exit»

From a 25 - mph pit exit, the turbocharged four - cylinder exhibited only minimal lag, building boost pressure and torque smoothly and quickly as we accelerated onto the track.

As far as we know, he was the first driver to find the barrier at the Abu Dhabi GP's pit exit — crashing at the GP2 (now known as Formula 2) round in 2015.

Usually, that's fine as long as the place is given back before the safety car line at the end of the pit exit, but Perez stayed ahead of the Toro Rosso for most of the lap before eventually taking up his correct grid position.

For those of you unaware of Gelael, his most memorable racing moment so far has been crashing in the pit exit tunnel at the Yas Marina Circuit.

It's fascinating to hear the whole Abt / Buemi situation play out and their reactions to it — such as Abt complaining of an unsafe release, only for it to be cut short by him bashing into Buemi at the pit exit.

Unfortunately, he drove into the pit exit (or rather, he felt Dixon forced him into the pit exit) so race control penalised Bourdais by forcing him to give up the position.

Then there's the «incident» (if you can even call it that) between Carlos Sainz and Kevin Magnussen in the pit exit.

That would have been hilarious enough, but the organisers decided that having 23 bikes racing out of the pit exit on cold slicks on a damp track was too dangerous, so they delayed the start.

Haas experienced a nightmare couple of laps in the Australian Grand Prix as both cars pitted from top six places, only to retire close to the pit exit with loose wheels.

A red light held them up at the pit exit, but for some reason Lewis failed to spot both the light and the two parked F1 cars and ploughed into the back of Raikkonen, with Nico Rosberg doing the same.

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.

By the time the pit exit opened and the race restarted, a helpless Taylor found himself down two laps.

Several other cars were stopped at the pit exit while the rest of the field — including many who crashed or became stranded during the downpour — stopped on the frontstretch.

With O'Connell in the # 3 Corvette and Beretta in the # 4 car, both Corvettes dropped and left their stalls simultaneously and a bit of fender rubbing occurred as the Corvettes went door to door, blowing through a red flag at the pit exit lane with Beretta finally getting out in front.

««For the final stop of the race, the # 3 car came in the pits in fourth position and was comfortably in the lead at the pit exit.

So I motored out the pit exit onto the main straight and began my first - ever lap of Laguna Seca, attempting to spot the right line and feeling out the available grip.

Unfortunately we saw our teammates have trouble at the pit exit.

But the pit exit was closed and a pile - up involving a Ferrari, a Porsche and Magnussen resulted in significant left - front damage to the No. 3 Corvette.

As the drivers jockeyed for position, they failed to heed a red flag at the pit exit and both were subsequently summoned to the penalty box.

«I think both cars dropped off the jacks at the same time and then it was a drag race to the pit exit.»

This is a problem because the first maneuver is to reverse out of a slip lane onto the pit exit.

Magnussen took the lead with a pass on the front straight with two minutes to go, but ceded the point back to Bergmeister after officials ruled that he made the pass on the pit exit.