Sentences with phrase «racing driver from»

The 25 - year - old racing driver from New Zealand has competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Bathurst 1000, and FIA World Endurance Championship (among other events), but this run is decidedly different.

Bibi Delhany (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a racing driver from the upper class.

Gavin, 37, spearheaded a team of 14 racing drivers from the British Racing Drivers» Club (BRDC)-- persuading many of them to enter the marathon, enthusiastically encouraging others with training support and advice, and leading the charge in the fund - raising effort.

Gavin, 37, spearheaded a team of 14 racing drivers from the British Racing Drivers» Club (BRDC)-- persuading many of them...

Gavin, 37, spearheaded a team of 14 racing drivers from the British Racing Drivers» Club (BRDC)-- persuading many of them to enter the marathon, enthusiastically and regularly encouraging others with training support and advice, and leading the charge in the fund - raising stakes.

Not exact matches

«The Mark Webber team was telling him to try and take care of the engine a few laps before the finish because they could see from the data that the engine was in danger of breaking down and two laps before the finish it exploded,» he added, referring to the F1 race driver.

From this year's crop of winners, if P&G's «Pick Them Back Up» tribute to Olympian moms didn't do it, then Honda's homage to the late racing driver Ayrton Senna would.

A gaffe about his opponent's race, allegations that he is the backseat driver from hell and, most recently, an indelible photograph of him in the middle of a wild party of teenagers — is Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler having the worst run...

From that came the implementation of a three - stage format that incentivizes drivers with bonus points that apply toward the championship so that they push hard from green flag to checkered flag in every regular season rFrom that came the implementation of a three - stage format that incentivizes drivers with bonus points that apply toward the championship so that they push hard from green flag to checkered flag in every regular season rfrom green flag to checkered flag in every regular season race.

The latter forced Force India to stop its drivers from racing each other but now fourth has been secured, Perez thinks it's time they let them race again.

Whilst Arnoux was a race winner and qualifying beast (he took 18 poles, more than any other driver without a championship), Cheever never quite managed to reach the top step during his time in F1 from 1978 to 1989.

The post-race celebrations are magnificent and if you feel physically, mentally and emotionally drained just from having watched the race, then imagine how it is for all the drivers and teams!

«It's more or less the same goal as Indianapolis - first of all, try to learn different driving techniques, try to learn from the specialists of endurance races, try to be a better driver when the 24 hours finishes.

But whilst his determination was impressive he wasn't the driver he had been before the accident, and aside from a non-championship win at Silverstone in 1971 the best he could hope to achieve was the occasional points finish in attritional races.

A snapshot from Wimbledon last week: Kimiko Date Krumm — a 40 - year - old Japanese player who lives in Monaco and is married to a German race car driver — nearly upset Venus Williams on Centre Court, while on an outer court 6» 6» Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina defeated Olivier Rochus, a 5» 6» Belgian.

At a luncheon two days before the race, the drivers had got an inkling of what they would face in a film that traced every mile of the 440 - mile course as seen from an airplane.

«IndyCar racing is stupendous and it was so exciting all year long — going from track to track and all the diverse ways that we race and seeing these drivers do some incredible things.

The Chase field will be trimmed from eight drivers to just four after the next three races, with Texas and Phoenix following Martinsville, before the final championship race at Homesead in Miami on Nov. 22.

Annett's car owner Rusty Wallace, for example, said last year that removing his driver from a race would hurt the entire team because it would be a severe points hit.

My friend and I (both race car drivers) were coming home from Philly and I was driving his car since he had a few drinks.

He was also one of the few drivers on the grid to gamble on the race staying wet throughout and he went for a full - wet setup, but that in no way detracts from his performance.

This slick video from the DS Virgin Racing crew and their driver Jose Maria Lopez shows a snapshot of a mid-race car change.

He hired veteran driver Jeff Burton away from Roush Racing and promoted young talent from his Busch program, including Bowyer and Martin.

Of all the drivers from other forms of racing who came to run occasionally in NASCAR — from Jim Clark to Mario Andretti — Foyt is the one Petty would have loved to face on a regular basis.

Three years removed from a stellar short - track career running 30 - mile, dirt - oval sprints, Bowyer has exhibited a veteran's car - control skills and is one of only three drivers in the top 12 to have finished all 18 races this season.

And as the competition among drivers from eight countries came down to the last meeting — Saturday night at Philadelphia's Liberty Bell Park — colorful Joe found himself in a rip - roaring race for the title with one Giuseppe Guzzinati of Turin, Italy.

From diving to touring car racing and golf, Max Verstappen manages to win «Driver of the Day» for pretty much everything in this funny parody.

Three drivers from three different countries having a hilarious bit of back - and - forth on Twitter as they prepare for one of the biggest races of the year?

From 247 entries and 246 starts, the Scottish driver won 13 races and scored 535 points before exiting in disappointing style at the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix.

A car that's stalled on the grid at the start of a race is a scary situation for everyone involved — especially the driver who didn't get away from the line, and the chasing pack.

It was everything a driver could want from a racing car and it dominated the 1990 championship.

This isn't just your typical race highlight montage however, but a beautifully shot movie with insights from drivers and team members getting just as much of the spotlight as the on - track action.

So from next season the cars will have two different power modes available, both of which the drivers have to use at some point during a race.

Despite going from 17th to fourth in the race, Sebastien Buemi wasn't impressed with some of his fellow drivers in Montreal

For a driver to go from making their motor racing debut to Formula 1 in under four years would suggest that they're incredibly talented.

2016 just keeps on getting worse with the news that former Minardi driver Esteban Tuero has retired from racing.

The British driver did a little bit of saloon car racing but retired from it altogether in 1969, moving to the USA.

Aside from the awesome looks, perhaps the best thing about the next Formula E car is the fact that it'll mean the end of drivers having to change cars in the middle of the race in order to get to the end, a stumbling block for many in their enjoyment of the series.

The lap times mean basically nothing, the drivers are rarely pushing as much as they could, and anything you can learn from them loses a lot of relevance because by the time of the race, the track conditions are completely different.

We've seen various types of helmet cam get developed over the past few years and lots of footage from practice and test sessions, but this year in the USA we've started to see them regularly fitted to drivers in races.

Quite often when a teams» lead driver retired from the race they'd pull in a slower driver and give it to the faster guy in the hope of getting a better result... and it makes for some weird looking results.

At a lunch with the German - speaking press on the Friday before the race, McLaren boss Ron Dennis was asked why he would keep three drivers — Andretti, Senna and Mika Hakkinen, a prospect from Finland who has been testing for McLaren this year.

Harraka moved to Charlotte for his senior year and graduated from Lake Norman High in Mooresville, N.C.. He's since worked as a test driver for Stewart - Haas and Red Bull Racing and, in the summer of 2010, was an intern in NASCAR's corporate marketing department.

«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.

«For me, I view this race now from the television booth almost like a driver,» Goodyear said.

12:08 p.m. — After an iffy forecast earlier in the week, meteorologist and SB Nation contributor Brian Neudorff believes the rain will hold off until later in the afternoon — meaning, this could be a race to halfway (100 laps) as the race would then be official and theoretically increase the intensity, with drivers eschewing patience from the onset in an effort to get to the front as soon as possible.

DIED: Miami Racing Driver LLOYD (Lucky) CASNER, 34, from injuries sustained when his five - liter Maserati skidded on a curve during a practice run at Le Mans, France.

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.

With barriers preventing them from cutting across and rejoining the track both drivers had to stop in the gravel, where they got promptly beached and were out of the race.

26 cars lined up on the Suzuka grid for that first race, but how well do you know the drivers from that year?