Sentences with phrase «race winning car»

The No. 2 stickers reference the 1966 race winning car driven by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon.

McLaren delivered a race winning car in 2007 but while paired with surprisingly successful rookie Lewis Hamilton, Alonso did not take the Brit's success well.

Not exact matches

The car is a Ford GT40, a replica of the legendary vehicle that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans rally race four times in the 1960s.

Of course it helps that several weeks ago, Kyle won the XFINITY race at Dover in a ParkerStore sponsored car.

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.

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.

«I want to help power companies prevent power outages, I want to help police identify patterns of crime that they didn't know about, I want to help race car drivers win races, and I want to help doctors predict medical outcomes.»

Luxury car sales had an especially strong year in 2013, with Mercedes setting a sales record to win the race against BMW and Toyota's Lexus for the top - selling brand.

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.

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!)

That has become the popular question in the wake of Kevin Harvick's dominating win Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, when following the triumph photos surfaced online that appeared to show the rear window on Harvick's No. 4 Stewart - Haas Racing car had bowed in the upper right corner.

We're proud of winning races and having fast cars.

Jaguar has made a lot of good - looking and good - sounding Le Mans cars, but the best has to be the XJR - 12, which won the race in 1990.

Raikkonen pipped the troubled McLaren drivers by a single point, and with Felipe Massa in the other car winning three races Ferrari won the Constructors» as well.

the following year Alfa had stiff competition from Ferrari - mainly because the car drank petrol like it was going out of fashion - and the team «only» won four of the seven races it entered.

We can dream of a situation in which six cars have a chance of winning by the time the F1 flying circus arrives in Melbourne, but it's difficult to transfer winter testing times into a realistic running order and we'll only know part of the picture after the first race.

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

He won the GT class of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona in his first professional car race, in 2005.

The greatest and most successful privateer F1 team of all time, Rob Walker Racing Team ran various cars between 1953 and 1970, the famous blue and white livery winning nine races - mostly in the hands of Stirling Moss.

Hamilton, Vettel, and Alonso fought for the win, Romain Grosjean and Sergio Perez ended up on the podium, and the top eight were covered by just 15 seconds in a race with multiple differing strategies and no safety cars.

Although its car, the P261, was now into its third season of competition, Graham Hill finished regularly on the podium and Jackie Stewart won a race.

Eric Boullier seems to be thinking along the same lines and has said that as long as the car is good, he expects the team to be in the top three and win at least one race in 2018.

Max Verstappen's father has suggested that Max will leave Red Bull if they can't provide him with a race - winning car

He looked incredibly glum after the race, not just because he lost what was looking like a comfortable win, but because despite giving his car full beans he couldn't get close enough to even attempt a move on Sebastian Vettel.

A third straight win doesn't absolve NASCAR finding two infractions on Harvick's race - winning car at Las Vegas.

That is why it is usually won by cars that spring from factories rich in racing tradition, like Ferrari, or simply rich - rich, like Ford, companies capable of producing cars tough enough and indigestible enough to last the distance.

Hours after winning yet another race with a surging kick, distance runner Steve Prefontaine was killed in a car crash.

In addition to his four CCWS championships, Bourdais is also the winner of 31 races in his Indy car career, tied with Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy for eighth on the all - time wins list.

The cars are now owned by Gulf Oil, whose agencies take out the ads when the GT40s win races.

«You know, if we go out and win some races, we'll get credit where credit is due, but we ran well, we've gotten lucky, we've had good cars, we've worked hard.

When the race resumed Truex quickly passed the three cars ahead of him and pulled away for his third win of the season and sixth of his career.

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.

When he was a child Earnhardt would conduct makeshift races with Matchbox cars in front of one of the clocks his famous father had won while the NASCAR radio broadcast played in the background.

Carroll Shelby, the rawboned Texan who put together a winning streak of 19 straight for absentee owners, was tapped by SCCA President Jim Kimberly for Saturday's four - hour race for cars of less than two liters displacement.

JC didn't so much CUT on people as he won the acceleration and braking battles like a racing car, with peppier motor and stickier tires.

«We're not bringing out our best car, the one we almost won with at Indy, until the fourth race,» he says.

Indeed, Montoya had the fastest car all weekend at New Hampshire, setting the pace in every practice session, winning the pole with a track - record time on Friday and leading a race - high 105 laps on Sunday.

I felt like we finally got the car, got ourselves in a position to win that race.»

In recent Martinsville races, he's had a dominant car only for potential wins to slip away due to speeding penalties incurred on pit road.

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.

Jimmy Vasser won the race and immediately after he climbed from the car said, «Who needs milk?»

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.

Harvick and Keselowski had the two best cars a year ago at Atlanta; Harvick won the pole and led a race - high 292 laps, while Keselowski took the checkered flag after Harvick was penalized for speeding on pit road during his final stop.

In 1955 however, an actual F1 car did turn up to race - a Connaught - and it won.

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.

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.

The beauty from 1988 remains one of the most dominant F1 cars of all time, winning 15 of the 16 races and both world titles.

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.

Today the Pau Grand Prix is one of the most prestigious races a driver can win in junior formulae, but in the 50s and early 60s it was F1 cars that tackled the tricky street circuit.

The Renault Alpine A442B with the bubble canopy was a crazy - looking Le Mans car and the livery looked epic, so it definitely won the 1978 race in style.