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«I absolutely love the Spa track,» says the 37 - year - old Corvette Racing driver who, this coming weekend, will be racing for the Mad Croc Racing team in the fifth round of the FIA GT1 World Championship.

Alexander Gurney (born September 4, 1974 in Newport Beach, California) is an American racing driver who competes in the Rolex Sports Car Series for GAINSCO / Bob Stallings Racing.

Parente is not the only K - PAX Racing driver who has been triumphant at Lime Rock Park.

In today's main feature race, the one - hour, two - driver challenge for closed - cockpit GT cars (1960 - 1964), the Corvette Racing driver who usually competes in the American Le Mans Series, lined up alongside some of the most famous names in motor sport in around # 100million of exotic cars.

Meet Dean Stoneman, the promising young racing driver who redefines the meaning of the word determination

He was a famed British racing driver who competed for Bentley in the 1920s, and the latest special edition of the Bentley Mulsanne luxury sedan wears his name.

A racing driver who appeared in Formula 1 film Rush has been killed in a car accident.Italian Mauro Pane, who served as a double for actor Daniel...

It's named after Louis Chiron, a racing driver who competed for Bugatti in the 1930s and who also holds the record for being the oldest Formula 1 driver to start a race.

The Veyron EB 16.4 is named in honour of Pierre Veyron, a Bugatti development engineer, test driver and company race driver who, with co-driver Jean - Pierre Wimille, won the 1939 24 hours of Le Mans while driving a Bugatti.

The car is for ordinary people, not for racing drivers who are expected to be aware of many more parameters than ordinary people.

Parnelli Jones was a successful race driver who won the Indy 500, numerous stock car, sprint car, and Baja truck races, in addition to winning the 1970 SCCA Trans Am title in a Boss 302 Mustang.

«Patrick is a passionate race driver who embodies the professionalism and amiability that makes the Porsche motorsport family what it is.»

- Federal drug agents are investigating a Florida aircraft leasing business operated by two former champion race drivers who are suspected of providing airplanes to South American drug traffickers,...

To replicate the event as accurately as possible, Slightly Mad enlisted no less than three professional racing drivers who competed in last weekend's event.

The game that launched back in May of last year was therefore the ultimate culmination of our own experience making accomplished racing games for over a decade, along with invaluable input from real - world racing drivers who gave us unprecedented insight into the motorsports world, and the wishes and desires of the racing community through our equity crowd - funding platform called the WMD Portal which allowed fans and players to test the game from day one, and who gave us feedback and guidance every day thereafter.»

Not exact matches

I remember interviewing someone years ago who claimed to be an avid track race driver, which it turns out I also happen to be.

Unlike a lot of other drivers who grew up in the sport, racing wasn't a big thing in our household.

MILEPOSTS — DIED: JEAN BEHRA, 38, of France, one of the world's most brilliant race drivers (winner of Grand Prix de Pau, Nurburgring, Bari, co-winner with Juan Fangio in 1957 Sebring), who started career as motorcyclist, switched to racing autos in 1951, of a fractured skull when his Porsche skidded during preliminary for Grand Prix of Germany (see page 31).

It also snapped a 112 - race dry spell for Richard Childress Racing, whose last victory occurred November 2013 — also at Phoenix with former RCR driver Kevin Harvick, who's since moved to Stewart - Haas Racing.

In a way, it'll reward consistent drivers or those who are fast through the race but don't get the finishing result they deserve.

The obvious option would be Nobuharu Matsushita, a Honda - backed driver who races in Formula 2.

Magnussen had to watch on as the Italian driver, who raced twice for Sauber earlier this year, lost control of his car at Turn 11 and hit the wall.

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

«Ferrari: Race to Immortality» focuses on the Scuderia's early years in F1 and the drivers who raced for the team

When it comes to racing in their home grand prix, there are two types of drivers: those who really struggle with the added pressure, and those who thrive on it.

He is a driver who has exposed himself as being too influenced by his own mindset in the past, but he seems to thrive on race weekends in which he turns up with focus and a positive mindset, it works for him.

He was just one lap behind race winner Michael Schumacher and on pure pace, he beat Heinz - Harald Frentzen's Prost, Olivier Panis» BAR, the two Arrows drivers, and his teammate, who was a massive two laps behind him.

As a recently retired Mercedes driver who has raced against Lewis intensely, Nico's insight this season could be unique on anything concerning the Mercedes garage.

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.

Mike Conway, who will compete with Ed Carpenter Racing on road / street courses next season, tested the No. 20 Fuzzy's Vodka entry for the team, with team owner / driver Ed Carpenter in attendance as well.

That's certainly a disappointing ending for the «Chicken Man,» who RCR pledged to help develop as a driver but only waited through five races of wrecked cars and poor finishes before giving him the boot.

One driver who disagrees with Keselowski and strongly supports NASCAR's new policy is Dale Earnhardt Jr., who a year ago suffered two concussions within a span of six weeks and sat out two races.

Five different drivers have won a race at this early stage of the season, including Jimmie Johnson, who has taken the checkered flag in this race twice since 2007.

The most recent example was Nationwide Series driver Michael Annett, who was arrested for DWI last February but still allowed to race at Daytona.

That is how the NASCAR world turns heading into the AAA Texas 500 Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway (2:15 p.m. ET, NBCSN), the second of three semifinal races that will determine the four drivers who will vie for the championship in two weeks at Homestead - Miami Speedway.

This is the driver who once tweeted a video of a rampaging bull to signify his mood entering the playoffs and whose résumé is filled with triumphs in races where anything short of winning resulted in playoff elimination.

Amazingly that wasn't the most overtakes by a single driver in a race — that honour falls to Lewis Hamilton in China, who made 18 passes on his way to 7th place having started dead last.

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.

Here are seven drivers who should've won a race.

It's a striking statistic, especially considering that Clark (who to be fair was one of the most gifted and brilliant racing drivers of all time) won seven of the ten races that year.

Whether it's near misses, cruel defeats or bad luck, there have been some brilliant F1 drivers who have never finished first in a race.

There wasn't much movement in the point standings overall — no driver gained or lost more than two spots — but race winner Jeff Gordon was among those who moved up multiple positions.

Eighth in the standings with one race to go, Hamlin (below) is the one driver who has consistently matched the speed of Jimmie Johnson during the Chase — that is, when Hamlin has been on the track.

The whole race weekend (6 - 7 April) will be a celebration of that last victory, with many of the drivers who competed in the race in attendance, as well as other events celebrating his incredible career.

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.

Thankfully no - one hit it, but in the jam driver Matt Kenseth (who had been fighting for the win) made contact with the back of another car, ultimately putting him out of the race.

That in itself is a massive part of the endurance racing calendar and there are some WEC drivers who were contracted to race in both.

That means that drivers who take a penalty for a race earlier in the weekend will potentially benefit, which should make it interesting when all the Renault - and Honda - powered teams race to announce their penalties before each other on a Thursday morning...

In this video a whole host of drivers talked about how they tackle the start of a race, with the likes of Antonio Felix da Costa, Alex Lynn, and Lando Norris (who's listed as a Formula 3 champion, even though he isn't quite yet!)

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.