Sentences with phrase «race car i drove in»

R GT3 race car I drove in 2015.

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You stopped driving race cars in the early»60s... what is one current track you most wish you could race?

In a sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk of driving a race car at 200 miles per hour and still perform at the highest level, he talked about his injury.

A lifelong adrenaline junkie, the Ottawa - born software pioneer fell in love with the fastest and most dangerous sports there are: professional race car and motorcycle driving.

Even though I was driving for a team I hadn't driven for, and the pedals in the car were different than what I'm used to... the weirdest thing was driving to the race track knowing I was actually going to race.

But Lyft does have one thing Uber doesn't, now: An actual automaker on its side in the race to create a self - driving car.

Early on I wanted to drive high horsepower, fast cars, but those types of cars just weren't racing in competitive series where I lived.

Tesla is the only major player in the race to autonomous cars that has no patents in recent years related to self - driving.

(Kyle also drives in select races in the Xfinity Series and owns a sprint car team with Justin Marks, an entrepreneur driver I profiled here.)

ED hopes to create a self - driving racing car in the next 19 months.

Other Chinese companies, such as Alibaba, Baidu, and DJI, are racing ahead in ecommerce and logistics; artificial intelligence and self - driving cars; and drone technologies.

While Tesla's Autopilot driver - assist feature is frequently impressive, and a huge edge in the race to true self - driving cars, one Tesla driver was recently reminded we're not quite to Autonomy Heaven yet.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 - Uber was so driven to «win at all costs» in the race to develop self - driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury on Monday, the opening salvo in a trade - secrets lawsuit between the two technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

Those teams have incredible real - time analytics, not just at the race venue, but also real - time, big data beamed from a car driving at up to 200mph on a race track on one side of the globe to the race team's headquarters in England.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Reuters)- Uber was so driven to «win at all costs» in the race to develop self - driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury on Monday, the opening salvo in a trade - secrets lawsuit between the two technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

3M has a product that is a handheld, fire - suppressant product, they use it in the rooms where they keep their big servers, and now it's in the 3M race car driven by Greg Biffle.

And here's a sign of how quickly things move in neuroscience: Earlier this year, another paraplegic man, Rodrigo Hübner Mendes, became the first person to drive a race car solely with his mind.

The bold move suggests that the ridesharing giant is pulling ahead of rivals Google and Tesla, who are also in the race to develop self - driving cars.

Self - driving car hackers meet to build and race autonomous vehciles at a warehouse in Oakland, California

Waymo's strategy so far appears to be attempting to prove that Kalanick was fixated on beating Google and winning the self - driving car race at all costs, which could in turn serve to explain his motivation to conspire with Levandowski.

Newman's wife originally bought the watch for him at Tiffany's back in 1968... right when he was getting into driving race cars.»

Waymo claims Uber was worried about getting beat in the self - driving car race so it stole Waymo's trade secrets when it hired one of its former executives.

In some ways, Uber's headlong rush into the self - driving car race echoes Icarus, whose waxen wings melted as he soared toward the sun.

In the race to put autonomous driving cars on the road, regulatory support makes a huge difference.

And in what could emerge as a self - driving - car arms race, the players are investing in, or partnering with, or buying outright the specialty companies most focused on the requisite hardware, software and artificial intelligence capabilities.

The race to develop a self - driving vehicle fleet has intensified since February when Bloomberg reported that Google was developing a rival to Uber Technologies Inc., most likely in conjunction with its driverless - car project.

For example, companies have already begun implementing in medical devices, mobile devices, and even cars as the race to create a self - driving vehicle continues.

One of the most outspoken players in the race to autonomous cars has some strong thoughts on where the future of self - driving...

Think of participating in the global economy today like driving a Formula One race car, which gets faster every year.

Josh and I raced the petting - zoo miniature ponies around the parking lot after the fall carnival and learned how to do donuts in our youth pastor's car before we could legally drive.

And she soon also followed her father into motor racing, eventually becoming a winner in sports car and GT endurance racing, even driving in the grueling 24 hours of Le Mans.

Best of all for the team, it was the No. 8 car of Sebastien Buemi / Kazuki Nakajima / Anthony Davidson which won (although Davidson didn't even get to drive in the race!)

They're racing to see who can be the first one to hop in his car, drive through the infield tunnel and disappear into the darkening Carolina afternoon.

Senna didn't really want to drive for McLaren in 1993 as he didn't think the car (with its underpowered Ford engine) was worthy of his talents, and instead of signing a contract for the whole year famously drove for the team on a race - by - race basis.

In the second hour of the 2017 Le Mans race, the No. 88 Proton Competition Porsche of Khalid Al Qubaisi in the GTE Am class was hit by the No. 26 G - Drive LMP2 car of Roman RusinoIn the second hour of the 2017 Le Mans race, the No. 88 Proton Competition Porsche of Khalid Al Qubaisi in the GTE Am class was hit by the No. 26 G - Drive LMP2 car of Roman Rusinoin the GTE Am class was hit by the No. 26 G - Drive LMP2 car of Roman Rusinov.

The once in a lifetime experience of being driven at speed by a racing driver at iconic race circuits in dream cars is truly unique.

«It's the first time for me in an endurance race, first time in a prototype car, first time driving at night, first time driving with GT cars around so many new things that will come step by step.

On Sunday that's due to happen at 5:45 am local time, so tune in a bit before that and enjoy the cars driving at «the golden hour» - so called because this is when track conditions are usually at their best and cars often set their fastest laps of the race.

Once long and lean and fiery, now thicker, quieter, deliberate in movement, Jones may be the most remarkable active sportsman in the U.S. Forty - seven years after he drove (and won) the first heat he ever entered, 34 years after he pulled his dying brother from a race car in Valdosta, Ga., Jones remains as competitive and skilled as rivals one third his age.

Last year's Formula E runner - up Lucas di Grassi drove one of the all - electric race cars across the ice cap, inside the Arctic circle in the north of Greenland.

From being fastest by 11 seconds in a wet practice session, to driving his car flat out with three wheels, to managing to win races with an absolute dog of a car (and so much more), Gilles cemented his place as an all - time great.

Driven by a plethora of Italian F1 stars such as Michele Alboreto, Alessandro Nannini, Ricardo Patrese and Teo Fabi, the Ferrari - powered cars took pole positions here, there and everywhere in the WSC, but were just too fragile to get to the end of the race.

Montoya, the 1999 CART champion and 2000 Indianapolis 500 champion, has returned to open - wheel racing full time, driving the No. 2 car for Penske Racing in the Verizon IndyCar Series this season after seven years in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Sracing full time, driving the No. 2 car for Penske Racing in the Verizon IndyCar Series this season after seven years in NASCAR's Sprint Cup SRacing in the Verizon IndyCar Series this season after seven years in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series.

When NASCAR's Drive for Diversity (D4D) program selected Paulie Harraka in the fall of 2006, he took the big step of moving up into late model racing from karting and legends cars.

The team will be sponsored by NTT Data, the same organization that sponsored Kanaan when he drove for Ganassi in the Grand - Am race at Indianapolis this summer, the first time he had driven a car for Chip Ganassi.

Reigning WEC champion and former Red Bull «number 2 driver» Mark Webber drove his Porsche 919 Hybrid as part of the launch of the new Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid in an effort to demonstrate how technology from motor racing can transfer to road cars.

On Tuesday, his remarkable story continued with his first outing in a race car since the accident, driving a specially - adapted Fun Cup car, which featured steering wheel mounted hand controls.

This wasn't the first time Webber has driven racing machinery on public roads, having done a demo run across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a Williams F1 car in 2005, and across the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne for Red Bull in 2011.

Having spent most of May driving a fast, competitive car and being in the running to win a race for the first time in years, Fernando Alonso says he is excited to go back to Formula 1 to drive a slow, unreliable one where even the idea of a 12th - place finish would seem a bit optimistic.

Whether that's just a bit of race rustiness, unfamiliarity with the new cars or just the nature of the track I don't know, but if being able to drive closer to the limit in races means more small errors, that's absolutely a good thing because it means a bit more unpredictability.