Sentences with phrase «prototype class this year»

With 20 cars in the prototype class this year, the fight for outright victory is set to be as close as it's ever been.

Not exact matches

Funds will be used to build a strong development team to take our prototype software to a full featured enterprise - class product with a year.

We show here that the X-ray and optical emissions of the prototype of the class, Gamma - Cas, are very well correlated on year time scales with no significant time delay.

Porsche ended its prototype sports car effort after its dramatic win over Toyota in the ’98 24 Hours, and in the years since, Audi has dominated the LMP1 class.

With new prototype regulations arriving next year, there wasn't much buzz in the prototype classes other than Mazda's decision to jettison the uncompetitive diesel that hamstrung its cars for the past two seasons in favor of a conventional gasoline - powered engine.

Several prototypes were tested that year, but the launch of the Nissan Primera in 1990 prompted Ford to made a number of major alterations to the final product, as it saw the new competitor from Nissan to be the benchmark car in this sector, having previously identified the Honda Accord as the class leader.

From the Le Mans - class winning DBR9, which was announced in November 2004, through the brand's successful venture into prototype racing with the DBR1 - 2, to the current Vantage - based GTs which are contesting this year's FIA World Endurance Championship and Nürburgring 24 Hours, the team has played an important role in defining the most recent decade in Aston Martin's illustrious 101 - year history.

Honestly, having raced around the Corvettes before, they aren't far off the pace of the prototypes I raced in the P2 class the last couple years.

«I've wanted to design my own chassis for 10 years,» said team owner Richard Stanboli, «so this new class structure, essentially a Superbike engine housed in a prototype chassis, has provided an ideal opportunity for me.

Current CGR driver Joey Hand is guaranteed a seat in the Ford GT next year, but his co-driver in the EcoBoost - Riley Daytona Prototype, Scott Pruett, may not join him due to his desire to win overall at next year's 24 Hours of Daytona and not just in the GTLM class.

Audi, stalwarts of the top class of sports car racing since before it was first called Le Mans Prototype 1, exited the category last year, and with Porsche rumored to follow, this could be the final year of a factory - versus - factory, Goliath - versus - Goliath battle for the overall win in the world's most storied endurance race for quite a while.

This is the first year of the award which will be presented to one winner in each of the five classes Continental Tire provides the spec tire: Prototype (P), Prototype Challenge (PC), GT Daytona (GTD), Grand Sport (GS), and Street Tuner (ST).

The team will be celebrating their 25th year at Le Mans and will be changing things up by fielding a Ligier JS P217 in the LMP2 Prototype class at the Summer Classic.

The race has been known historically as a leg of the informal Triple Crown of endurance racing, [1] although it suffers from an increasing isolation from international Sports Car racing regulations, which have been eased in recent years (Prototypes include P2 Prototypes and an IMSA - spec open engine class with aero kits, and the two Grand Touring classes are now divided between ACO GTE, and FIA / SRO Group GT3 classes).

Wayne Taylor Racing has won the last three IMSA Long Beach races in the Daytona Prototype class; a fourth consecutive win at the event this year would mark the team's first victory of the season, after full - time drivers Jordan Taylor and Renger Van Der Zande, with their endurance race co-pilot Ryan Hunter - Reay, took a DNF at Daytona and a second - place result at Sebring.

A number of current and prospective Prototype Challenge teams have voiced questions and concerns over Friday's announcement from IMSA, which has tentatively capped the growing, cost - effective class to 10 entries, while also undergoing a shakeup in its schedule in next year's TUDOR United SportsCar Championship.

Scott Tucker's Level 5 Motorsports machines will compete in a new class that includes Daytona Prototypes in the new United SportsCar Racing lineup next year.

Posting a 1 - 2 in the Le Mans Prototype Challenge (LMP - C) class and taking third and fourth place overall was the Dublin, Ohio - based Intersport Racing with 21 year old Canadian driver Kyle Marcelli and veteran Tomi Drissi followed by team owners Jon and Clint Field.

Every year I run a prototyping class at NYU, where students make a new game every week, starting with a prompt or constraint that I give them.