Sentences with phrase «pit lane at»

I think that the boys at VW must have snuck down pit lane at the last Indy meet and stolen them off the race cars parked there.

The leading group of GTLM cars left the pit lane at nearly the same time.

A Watching our two cars drive into one another in the pit lane at Sebring!

Walking into pit lane at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is a bit nerve - wracking, so we're happy to see a familiar face.

My first impression of the 2018 Audi RS 3 came when I jumped into one on pit lane at the Lime Rock Park racetrack.

The gleaming white wonder posing in pit lane at the Nürburgring Formula 1 circuit looks like a distant relative of the race car that competed in the twenty - four - hour endurance run earlier this year.

The LC 500 awaits us in the pit lane at Circuito Monteblanco.

Not exact matches

But when Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg ploughed into the back of Kimi Raikkonen at the end of the pit lane it set the stage for Robert Kubica to take his first (and only) win, and for Coulthard to score his final podium.

Sebastian Vettel got very cheeky in China at the pit lane entry, passing two slower cars on the run to the speed limiter line.

If launches can be organised for prior to the first test, then F1 could open up the pit lane for fans at some stage in the testing period (or just before it) and showcase the cars to the supporters flocking to Spain or wherever it's taking place.

Teams taking the covers off their new cars through online reveals or pit lane launches have become pretty common in recent years, but while people go mad for the updates on social media, it'd be cool to bring the fans closer to the new cars with reveals at the circuit itself, perhaps the day before the first test.

Mansell continued to lead until he made his sole pitstop on lap 26, but as he left his box a driveshaft broke, leaving him stranded at the end of the pit lane and out of the race.

Leist was left facing the wrong way at the end of the pit lane and decided to execute an impressive (if slightly dodgy) spin turn with just one rear wheel.

Other, more minor changes include the introduction of Nascar - style two - lane rolling starts at every race, the addition of a series of complex mirrors and cameras to the Halo in order to make it appear invisible to the naked eye, and bonus points being awarded to the driver who can exceed the pit lane speed limit by the smallest margin over the course of the weekend.

It's not often we see drivers losing control and hitting the pit lane exit wall, but that's exactly what happened during last weekend's IndyCar race at Watkins Glen.

Then there was a great exchange between him and Christian Horner on team radio as patiently waited at the end of the pit lane.

Rush excels when Hunt and Lauda are taunting one another or even glaring at each other across pit - lane.

There's also inconsistency in the fact that you're never able to exit the pits in a flying lap (meaning you have to exit via the pit lane and complete a full lap before your times to start counting) but you're able to jump to the pits at any time from the pause menu.

On the Friday there's no racing, so the pit lane is open to the public from 10.00 in the morning to 8.00 in the evening — you probably won't see any of the drivers, but it's the closest you're likely to get to the cars and often the mechanics are hard at work making final adjustments.

Here I am in the new 602 - hp 2015 Lamborghini Huracán, waiting for the light at the end of the pit lane to jump from red to green.

The rest spend Saturday in the hospitality suites above pit lane or coagulate at the car club corrals.

With this bushel of information bouncing around in my skull, I don a helmet and ease out of pit lane to see how it all works at Barber.

I wince at my stupidity, hit the pit lane, and then head to the nearest gas station.

Apparently so did the Nissan representatives in pit lane, who keep gesturing at us to come in from the track.

I was grabbing water in the pit lane when I remembered the reports made by some Z06 buyers who said they were disappointed with overheating issues at track days.

Whether pulling up at a posh valet or a pit lane, the Supersports looks the part.

SONIC Tools is the strategic tool partner of Corvette Racing and the Jake - branded toolboxes you see lining their garages in pit lane will also look right at home in your garage!

Standing on the pit lane wall at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, waving the American flag as Corvette Racing won its class for the fifth time.

We know we have the best team in the pit lane and Tommy is a fantastic partner in the car — we proved it to everyone last year by winning the championship and I'm keen to put the difficulties of our last few races behind us and get back to where we were at Sebring!»

Team Makes Steady Progress Despite Wet and Slippery Conditions LE MANS, France — Ten days of ideal weather following the initial test of Corvette Racing's new C6.R race cars at Le Mans on June 5 ended abruptly as the yellow Corvettes pulled out of the pit lane for the first of two four - hour practice and qualifying sessions.

Squeezed by a Recaro seat in a 2016 Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang, the track official at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway waves me forward from the pit lane.

What would be better for a test scenario than to have all three models of the Panamera; the 2S, 4S and Turbo, all rolled off of a transport AT Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and driven directly to the pit lane.

There are still nine races to be run and you can bet Fehan, the drivers and the Pratt & Miller crew will learn and move on from the events surrounding the pit lane crash at Sebring.

Johnny O'Connell and Jan Magnussen overcame intense competition on the track and a penalty in the pit lane to take their No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6.R to a hard - earned podium finish at Miller Motorsports Park.

The No. 16 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R has been stripped of its GT Pro-Am class victory in Sunday's Pirelli World Challenge SprintX race at Utah Motorsports Campus, after having been handed a post-race time penalty for a pit lane infraction.

«Everything for us seemed to be really, really good for us — strategy calls, in the pit lane... the thing was that the lack of performance at times put us in a position where we had to be aggressive on strategy.

As many as 45 teams will start the race at 3 PM on Saturday and continue into the darkness until 9 PM, before the race resumes on Sunday at 9 AM, pausing for the remembrance service which takes place in the pit lane and involves drivers, pit crew, marshals, race officials and spectators.

Following an early morning van ride to learn approximately which way the pavement went, we were dropped in the pit lane, where a handful of brand - new GTs were idling at the ready.

Just when I was ready to bend the rules, the slowpoke prematurely dipped into the pit lane, leaving me with a clear shot at the track's long front straight and a sudden outlet for the red mist that had been building over the lapping session.

Quick pit work played a decisive role in the team's 1 - 2 finish at this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans when seconds saved in the pit lane offset the quicker lap times of Corvette Racing's rivals during the long day and night of racing.

JORDAN TAYLOR, WAYNE TAYLOR RACING NO. 10 KONICA MINOLTA CORVETTE DP — PROTOTYPE RACE WINNER: «When I got in the car, I knew (the No. 01) had stayed out because I didn't see them in the pit lane, so I knew they would have at least one lap on hot tires and we'd have a lap on cold tires and they could maybe jump us.

At the recent Mid-Ohio SCCA World Challenge race, Ford Mustang Boss 302 race teams staged a protest against the series by parking all of their race cars in pit lane after the initial formation lap.

Description: Take a look at this F1 2016 trailer which features in - game footage of the action from the paddock and hospitality area, garage, pit lane, grid and the track.