Sentences with phrase «racecars went»

Back in August one of the famous Owens - Corning L88 Corvette racecars went up for bids at RM's Monterey auction.

At the last ChumpCar race you blew the engine up on your racecar going up the hill toward the corkscrew at Laguna Seca.

Not exact matches

Woodman had always harbored a dream of being a racecar driver, and once sales of the digital camera were going well enough, he indulged himself by going to racing school at Infineon Raceway, in Sonoma.

He asked for data when we talked on the phone and I was able to bring that with me and present that and try to explain what was going on inside my racecar.

To spell RACECAR, you must go from an R to an E and then from an E to an R.

Easy - going easy to get along with love the outdoors hunting fishing camping going to the lake and racing my racecar

That husband, named Gary (Ben Falcone), is a dentist to the stars; his father Ramsey Cooper (Dennis Quaid) is a retired racecar driver who carries a wad of cash with him everywhere he goes.

Review: Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) was born going 100 miles an hour so it was only natural that he became a racecar driver where he lives by his daddy's motto «If You're Not First, You're Last!»

Going undercover (just barely) as geishas, belly dancers, and racecar drivers (one even does a nude death - defying fall), these Angels redefine the phrase «busting open the case.»

If DeBont's last effort, Speed, could be seen as like a racecar zooming around a racetrack, then Twister is more like stop - and - go rush hour freeway traffic where the «going» is really fast.

It could embarrass a Ferrari 458 in a straight line and out - handle most things this side of a racecar, but Nissan has gone and moved the goal posts, again.

The thought of such abilities, exploitable ones at that, crammed into a road car is difficult to comprehend - at the time of the McLaren F1, people thought no supercar would ever get faster, but it's hard to imagine any road car in the future being able to out - lap the new Red Bull road - going racecar.

Cause if I want to go to the track I buy a real racecar.

The road going car was produced in order to homologate the car for several different racing series, and it proved to be an extremely capable racecar, winning 1436 races in Europe in just under four - and - a-half years, making it the most victorious racecar of all time.

Racecars from every decade packed in garages and under tents, each patiently waiting its turn at going wheel to wheel around this legendary racetrack.

I go to an engineering school, and some friends of mine who build racecars looked at it and said it sounds like the power steering pump is having difficulties.

No word on specifics, but the mill is a close relative to the 5.6 - liter VK56DE used in the FIA GT1 GT - R racecars, not to the mention road going Titan, Armada, and Pathfinder.

And being a replacement for the 599, rather than a reborn Enzo, this is no road - going racecar — there's plenty of luggage capacity and a plush leather and carbonfibre - clad interior.

The 718 Cayman isn't quite a racecar, but it is about as close as you are going to get with a street legal vehicle.

At the Goodwood Festival of Speed, brands set up their stands in a parkland setting and attempt to lure show - goers who are primarily there to see historically significant racecars driven at high speeds by famous drivers.

Technical details for the racecars, which will be built at Jaguar's Special Vehicle Operations facility in Coventry, will be released next year, when the i - Pace production car is set to go into production.

In 1962, Carroll Shelby put a Ford V8 engine into a European racecar chassis and went on to beat the world's best teams AND claim the first and only FIA World Sportscar championship for an American company.

Based on our estimates, the 2014 Hyundai i20 WRC racecar is likely to receive a 1.6 - liter, in - line - four engine that produces close to 300 horsepower, which should be good enough to hit 60 mph in five to six seconds to go with a top speed of about 160 mph.

Plus, it has all the bells and whistles on what you'd come to expect from a fully prepared racecar, including a modified front splitter, a new rear diffuser and an obscenely large rear wing that should go hand - in - hand with tuned suspension dynamics.

Leveraging what they learned from the innovative Nissan DeltaWing racecar — with its distinctive triangular shape — Nissan designers have created their concept of a road - going version, but with an all - electric powertrain.

And let's face it: when you're driving with the family, you aren't going to travel the roads like a racecar driver.

Seeing the prototype now means it will most likely go into production in 2016 as a 2017 model year, which sounds like an appropriate time frame for the launch of a road - going version of the Mercedes - AMG GT3 racecar seen in Geneva this year.

Tomorrow and Sunday we are going to try and put all of that together to see if we can improve on the racecar.

With its sights set squarely on dethroning the Germans and their performance luxury sedans, Cadillac is upping the ante with twin turbochargers, sport suspension, and enough go - fast bits to build a racecar — all while keeping that swanky style the brand has become identifiable with.

I knew I had to go, had to be behind the wheel of a racecar.

In order to attest its authenticity, TeamVVV were invited to a special media day at Brands Hatch along with a group of journos from various media outlets, where we were not only given a chance to race around Project CARS» virtual reproduction of Brands Hatch (one of the instructors who had driven over 150,000 laps of the circuit even commented how astonishingly accurate it was in Project CARS without provocation from Slightly Mad), but experience it for real out on the track in a variety of souped - up trackcars, including a go kart, BMW M3 and a single seater racecar.

«The paint goes in a gun with a compressor,» Mr. Stella said, adding that he favors automotive paint of the kind used on racecars.

Racecar driver Mario Andretti said, «If you don't feel out of control, you're not going fast enough.»

One of them was a racecar experience, and then of course we have silent auction items for which we go out and solicit donations from not only our other realtors and affiliates, but from the local community as well.