Sentences with phrase «race sports cars»

A true gentleman that loves going to the beach and race sports cars.

Trim enough at 47, Greenberg used to race sports cars and motorcycles and still tools to his office at Miami's Mount Sinai Medical Center in a high - powered Porsche.

I heard from people with albinism who were professors and raced sports cars and started tech companies.

I tend to think of the Ford GT40 as the last of the dedicated racing sports cars that you could imagine taking on the road.

As with the legendary racing sports car from the 1952 season, the vehicle featured consistent lightweight design throughout and a spaceframe that supported the engine, transmission and axles and left no room for conventional doors.

His love of Corvettes comes from his father, NCM Board Member Richard Anderson, who has owned and raced the sports car in SCCA events.

For rarity, how about the prototype Lister - Chevrolet Costin sports car, raced at Goodwood in 1959 and a prime example of British racing sports cars

The museum itself features one of the world's greatest collections of racing sports cars.

One of the most successful racing sports cars in its class, the Audi R8 LMP900 won the 24 Hours of Le Mans five of the six years it competed and the American Le Mans Series six times in a row.

Not exact matches

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.

And if that's not enough, in 2010 C.J. founded CJ Wilson Racing, a sports car race team that recently announced its move up to the IMSA GTD class, one of the premier sports car classes in the world.

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.

Stock - car racing is clearly a mainstream sport... but it's not sports - car racing, which has its own culture, one that definitely deserves respect.

Sports - car racing is the best sports - business success story hiding in plain sight: IMSA, the premier sanctioning body for sports - car competition in North AmSports - car racing is the best sports - business success story hiding in plain sight: IMSA, the premier sanctioning body for sports - car competition in North Amsports - business success story hiding in plain sight: IMSA, the premier sanctioning body for sports - car competition in North Amsports - car competition in North America.

Then, a 1936 Aston Martin 2 - liter sports - racing two - seater car is seen selling for between $ 2.1 million and $ 2.6 million on September 10 at the Goodwood Revival festival in England.

Ferrari NV RACE said Thursday that net profit rose 19 % in the first quarter in part thanks to higher sales of its sports cars, including the new 812 Superfast and 488 models.

Ferrari profit rises on sales of new modelsFerrari NV RACE said Thursday that net profit rose 19 % in the first quarter in part thanks to higher sales of its sports cars, including the new 812 Superfast and 488 models.

Recently uploaded by YouTube's resident drag race enthusiast — DragTimes — the race between the electric car and the pedigreed ICE sports car was tense until the very end.

By the time you've realized that truth, you're racing down the streets in a boosted sports car, bag of money and assault rifle laying on the back seat.

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.

If the track magnate who hosts five of the Indy Racing League's 11 events gets his way, Indy cars could be sporting fenders as early as next year.

«In view of extremely hazardous conditions at the Watkins Glen course, because racing at this site under present circumstances places all organized motor sport in jeopardy,» says the Sports Car Club of America, it is banning to its members all races at the Glen until further notice.

We take a look at the drivers who came back to the sport after suffering nasty injuries in racing cars

Jan 04,2016... With the world's best drivers and top - ranking factory teams, America's biggest sports car race achie...

Last year Ferrari decided to opt out of sports - car racing, after a multitude of very successful seasons, and concentrate on Grand Prix racing instead.

The low square car not only won the biggest single event in sports - car racing but in doing so also squeezed by Porsche to win for itself the International Manufacturers» Championship by a slim three points.

NASCAR Grand National Division 50 - mile race, $ 4,200, Greensboro, N.C. Targa Florio International Sports Car Championship, Sicily.

The mechanical stars of a pair of zestful Sports Car Club of America endurance races last weekend on the exacting Road America course at Elkhart Lake, Wis. were bright - red Italian machines, an Osca and a Ferrari.

This was a weekend dedicated to the proposition that the owner of a sports car should turn up in the driver's seat on race day.

But what really makes Busch so formidable on flat tracks such as New Hampshire (those with little or no banking in the corners) is that he can control a loose race car (meaning the rear end slides up the track through the corners) as expertly as anyone in the sport.

NASCAR Grand National Division 100 - mile race, $ 4,200, Greenville, S.C. SCCA Sprint Sports Car Races, Danville, Va. (also May 4).

In sweeping the Daytona 24 - hour race some rugged German sports cars demonstrated that they are the threats of the year in the altered game of endurance racing.

A vintage - car race served up many of the sport's best surviving drivers as happy participants.

He later went on to race in the British Touring Car Championship and sports car championships, as well as Grand Prix MasteCar Championship and sports car championships, as well as Grand Prix Mastecar championships, as well as Grand Prix Masters.

Despite never winning an F1 race, Cheever still achieved a lot in his varied motorsport career, winning sports car races, finishing runner - up at Le Mans twice, racing in CART and standing on the top step of the podium in IndyCar and winning the famous Indianapolis 500 in 1998.

It almost makes you wish tracks were still like this, until you remember that this is the very same race where the ultra-talented Stefan Bellof tragically lost his life, cutting short a a career that had yet to fully blossom in either Sports Cars or Formula 1.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

The final race of the day saw a Group C race and it's really not that difficult to understand why these are the fans» favourite era of sports car racing with the looks and the sound to go with it.

A sports car buff who has not been seen riding a bicycle in years, the prince nevertheless climbed aboard a two - wheeler in Stockholm and led the field through part of the first lap of a bike race, pulling nimbly aside after 850 meters and letting the 60 - odd competitors pedal past.

Two drivers will make their IZOD IndyCar Series debut this weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, headlined by Luca Filippi for Barracuda Racing and James Davison of Dale Coyne Racing.

Except for Sportsman Briggs Cunningham's virtually single - handed efforts with homebred machines, the U.S. has lately let sports car racing honors go to overseas manufacturers by default.

«I think with the competition — the race cars are very cool - there's diversity in the sport with the drivers from 14 different countries, nine different winners this year...,» Frye said.

Defending Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan is also still seeking for a place to race next year and may depart for NASCAR, sports cars or Brazilian Stock Ccars or Brazilian Stock CarsCars.

Tagliani says he has shifted his attention to sports car racing but says a return to IndyCar and select NASCAR Nationwide Series races still may happen.

Tagliani has been competing in Grand - Am since his departure from Barracuda Racing in early August and the sport's relatively short off - season could mean that he remains in sports cars next season, with the newly merged United Sports Car Champiosports cars next season, with the newly merged United Sports Car ChampioSports Car Championship.

Beautiful, dangerous supremely thrilling, sports car racing has a magnetic attraction for its fans

He's also inquired with teams about potential opportunities in Brazil and in sports car racing, after making his debut in the Grand - Am Rolex Series at the Brickyard Grand Prix in July.

Which is why when it was announced last month that he would not be returning to Earnhardt - Ganassi Racing next season, it was logical to think Montoya would either return to open - wheel racing or compete in sports cars full -Racing next season, it was logical to think Montoya would either return to open - wheel racing or compete in sports cars full -racing or compete in sports cars full - time.

Jan 04,2016... So say the international arbiters of sports car racing to gifted U.S. amateurs who, denied ail but a...

The sport got its first look at the new restart rule during the second race of the opening round of the season at Hockenheim after an incident on the first lap brought out the safety car... and it made for an epic run down to the first corner.