Sentences with phrase «pole sitter»
The phrase "pole sitter" refers to the person who earns the top starting position in a race, usually in motorsports like Formula 1 or IndyCar. They start at the front of the grid, as if they were sitting on a pole. Full definition
«The car is very quick and we've made some changes every day to make it quicker,» said Olivier Beretta, pole sitter in the # 4 Corvette C5 - R.
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- Saturday's American LeMans Series race in the Charm City saw stoppage before the Grand Prix of Baltimore even began.A slow start by pole sitter Klaus Graf (Muscle Milk) led to a lane - changing...
Jan 04,2016... ARIE»S LAST RIDE In his final race, pole sitter Arie Luyendyk wants his thirdIndy 500 win Arie Luyen...
At the time, this made de Cesaris the youngest ever pole sitter, a record he held until Rubens Barrichello took pole for the 1994 Belgian Grand Prix.
Fellows took the lead on the start, passing pole sitter Darren Turner's Aston Martin.
The No. 74 Corvette C7R will line up behind pole sitter Gimmi Bruni in the AF Corse Ferrari, Corvette Racing's sister car and the lead Aston Martin Racing entry.
Davis would line up alongside pole sitter Francis Jr..
Teaming up with returning drivers Bruno Junqueira and Duncan Ende are 2013 American Le Mans Series Drivers LMPC runner - up Chris Cumming and 2011 Indianapolis 500 pole sitter Alex Tagliani.
Led by pole sitter Joey Hand's Ford GT best race lap at 1:17.640, the top seven cars in the fierce GTLM field broke the previous track record.
«It was close racing as always with Ron Fellows,» said Oliver Gavin, pole sitter in the # 4 Corvette C5 - R.
Pagenaud was the pole sitter.
The tow truck turns more laps than the pole sitter; the yellow (caution) light shines just about as often as the green.
But disaster struck for the pole sitter in the race after a radiator failed, and Bruce McLaren was able to navigate the field to pick up the victory and mark a very iconic moment in McLaren's history, the beginning.
Bruce McLaren had qualified sixth, and the qualifying performance of the pole sitter Chris Amon was so dominant that anything other than a Ferrari victory looked very slim.
Larger sails can thrust against Earth's gravity and not even be in orbit around the Earth, and a pole sitter could sit continuously over Earth's poles and can provide continuous data on the polar ice caps.
As for the ultimate goals for light sail technology, Johnson said he'd like to see them used as «pole sitters».
No hockey to watch and the only alternative was the Indy 500 — the pole sitter by the way, a Canadian, Alex Tagliani who crashed on Lap 147.