Sentences with phrase «race car engine»

To add excitement to any party, the OJ98 is equipped with the Party Kick Starter feature which simulates the sound of a revving race car engine.

The 6.2 - litre LT1 is a brilliant motor and is much closer to the C7.R GTE race car engine than the Z06's supercharged LT4, making this Grand Sport the closest thing you can get to the Le Mans racer.

The original idea behind the Maserati GranTurismo was to provide drivers with a vehicle that was fitted a sophisticated race car engine inside a luxurious, handcrafted sedan.

For example, students discovered that Williams» pioneering work in cooling down race car engines had been transferred to reducing energy bills in the frozen aisles of supermarkets — creating vast energy savings.

Other performance coupe contenders were the Kia GT4 Stinger Concept, with the 315 - hp turbocharged 2.0 - liter Optima racing car engine, it is rumored to be nearing production form.

His main responsibility was racing car engines.

Not exact matches

As mentioned in Chapter 5, the drinking alcoholic becomes increasingly like a car with the engine racing but the clutch disengaged.

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.

Held during the iconic Goodwood Revival meeting, the Settrington Cup does away with frivolities like engines or complex aerodynamics in favour of a pedalling setup in cars so small that teams have to enlist children to race them.

It's not like an engine penalty either (which is applied to the car rather than the driver) so Fernando Alonso won't have to serve it when he returns to F1 for the next race in Montreal.

«But yeah, going to the race and having confidence to push the car on the limit and to push the engine a little bit, I think we have much more confidence now.»

The three - engine rule is already having an effect on the racing, with Lewis Hamilton reluctantly having to give up his battle with Sebastian Vettel to preserve his car

The only Japanese car to win the iconic race has a distinct sound due to its four - rotor Wankel engine.

As of this year any manufacturer wishing to go endurance racing with an engine over five liters must have built at least 500 copies of his car.

«Above all, Le Mans is an engine breaker,» Wyer said in his office 10 days before the race, as outside in the workshop mechanics were reassembling the three squat five - liter GT40s that would be racing in France, a third car having been added for the 24 Hours.

It's just seemed a bit of a reckless decision to decide to put the car on blocks and start pulling pieces out of the engine when the first races were looming.

As for creating a rotary engine for use in such ultra-exotic races as Indianapolis or Formula I, Rudolph Uhlenhaut, the now - retired chief engineer of the firm, is said to have told insiders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Establishment that perhaps three years and $ 5 million would be necessary to develop a winning rotary - engine car for the annual 500 - mile race.

With a year to work on the cars and engines, will we see the same kind of race?

The engines have sung to him for too long — through 35 years and 200 major stock car racing wins and passage into blue - collar legend.

In 1961 he tried the Indy 500 and whilst his Cooper wasn't the first rear - engined car to race there, it had a similar effect as it had in F1.

As well as one car for DragonSpeed, two will also be run by the SMP Racing squad - although they'll have twin - turbo V6 AER engines, whilst DragonSpeed is going to run a naturally - aspirated V8 Gibson unit.

Unfortunately for Jenson Button that's exactly what happened at Monaco in 2010, and by the time McLaren had noticed it was too late - Button's engine overheated behind the safety car and he was out of the race.

It will be more attractive for other car and engine manufacturers to join F1, and for the fans it will be much better as you will have closer racing on track.

Chapman's Lotus MK25, built in 1962, was the first racing car to have its engine integrated with its body in the monocoque design.

That left Phil Hill to lead home Richie Ginther and Willy Mairesse in a processional Ferrari one - two - three against an opposition comprised mainly of privateers and Formula 2 cars in what also proved to be the last win in a championship race for a front - engined car.

Will every car in the race being powered by the legendary Cosworth DFV engine the sound is pretty incredible.

It's like Xmas morning when you have asked father Christmas for a racing car with flashing lights and vrooming engine only to get itchy grey socks.

It won't have the road cars W12 engine either, unfortunately (imagine how a racing version of that might sound!)

After the race drivers complained about how tough it was to follow other cars, let alone overtake, and were already backing off in order to save their engines.

«I think who's building your engine is more important than what kind of body you've got on your race car, and Robert Yates did a lot of homework this winter.»

Formula E will mark Nissan's first major motorsport project since it built a front - engined, front - wheel drive LMP1 car to race at Le Mans.

In the race the reliability of the Mugen - Honda engine Damon talked about did get him and his Jordan to the end of the race (one of only nine cars to do so), but there was no reward of points as he crossed the line in eighth place, back when only the top six scored.

To moan about Wenger is like running over to a car with smoke pouring out of the engine and say it failed to win a race due to bald tires.

The Rondeau M379 wasn't the quickest car and the reliability of its Cosworth DFV engine was a surprise, but even so it managed to reach the end of the race to win - just.

Everybody in commentary (Sky / BBC / C4) enjoyed the tired old «Fernando is faster than you» jokes as he got stuck behind the Williams of Felipe Massa for the rest of the race, but he did manage to stay in front of another Mercedes - engined car which was surely a result.

However, both cars failed to start the race, so we can only assume there are some Honda engines hidden away under an interesting choice of livery.

They know Honda is a disaster next season, so they kept poor drivers in the car and pray that Honda develop well over the year, so that the Red Bull racing team can have a decent engine supply in 2019.

Finally they had to limit the sizes of the engines in the racing cars because people were killing themselves.

Car lovers, start your engines and race on over to Motoring at the Museum on Sunday, September 9 from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Arlington Heights Historical Museum (110 W. Fremont Ave in Arlington Heights).

Some of the great designs for boys bedding include Bob the Builder, Roary the Racing Car and Thomas the Tank Engine.

Electric race cars have such a great capacity for speed because they utilize energy more efficiently than internal combustion engines, Waters explained.

As Robert Ernst explains: «Whereas a racing car will often fail after completing a hundred superfast laps because the engine has overheated, a tractor (representing a normal body cell) will continue to drive up and down the field for a lot longer, but also a lot slower.»

Smith designed the RAD and then built a prototype car racing game in Unity, the most popular game engines in the world, and integrated the RAD into that prototype.

«We have 100 students this year, designing and building full - sized track cars that are zero emission,» he explains, «and we're building a car that will be racing at Silverstone this year against vehicles powered by combustion engines.»

The giant Chrysler Corporation is now testing its Patriot, which will be the first race car ever to use a hybrid powertrain (the engine and driveshaft which transmits torque to the gears).

Carbo - loading before a race is a lot like a race car mechanic tweaking the engine without taking the car out for a lap before the race.

This is like stealing a bare car engine, and hoping it wins you a Daytona race somehow.

In addition, the brand new graphics engine in «Forza Motorsport 5,» powered by the Xbox One, will let «Forza» players get closer than ever to these amazing cars and to really build an appreciation for these masterpieces of race engineering.»

A day / night cycle and dynamic weather elements were introduced with Horizon 2, but with competition from visually impressive titles like Driveclub and the upcoming Project CARS, an even more advanced engine could potentially give Microsoft's flagship racing simulator the edge.

Crashday adopts a similar mentality to Nadeo's TrackMania, offering you the chance to race, perform stunts, and create your own tracks in a tasty looking game engine that does shiny cars and enormous draw distances very well.