ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Corvette Racing made motorsports history today, scoring the first victory with E85R ethanol
racing fuel in American Le Mans Series competition.
«We will continue our commitment to cellulosic E85R ethanol
racing fuel in the current GT1 Corvette C6.R and the next - generation Corvette C6.R that will compete in the new GT class,» Fehan said.
The race engines use E85R ethanol
racing fuel in the ALMS and E10 fuel in Le Mans.
of torque while using high - octane
racing fuel in the 6.2 - liter V8 engine.
In a sport that prides itself on being the fastest and at the forefront of technical innovation, going just a few tenths quicker over the space of 12 years (and remember, they had to qualify with
race fuel in 2004) isn't very impressive, is it?
Not exact matches
«I want to tell all those who have
fueled the arms
race over the last 15 years, sought to win unilateral advantages over Russia, introduced unlawful sanctions aimed to contain our country's development... you have failed to contain Russia,» Putin said, later adding that «any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies... any kind of attack... will be regarded as a nuclear attack against Russia and
in response we will take action instantaneously no matter what the consequences are.
Uber
raced into the field
in the past few years,
fueled by a desire to develop a more profitable business model that did not include paying drivers.
These may have lessened the fall
in Canadaâ $ ™ s corporate tax revenue losses, but not by much. Even worse, this tax shifting makes the overall net impact even more negative as any revenue gains from income shifting come at the expense of even greater revenue losses elsewhereâ $» and
fuel a
race to the bottom with tax cuts.
The brunt of the responsibility rests on those who are the aggressors, however, there exists
in every
race a group of ignorants that add
fuel to the racist fire by either being racists themselves and / or perpetuating stereotypes that add to the racism despite these groups often being a minority within the larger
race.
She is
fueled by nothing but plant power, so we sent 5 questions her way to see what it's like competing
in these grueling
races while being vegan.
In the last month, I whipped it up three times before
race days to
fuel up on pure plant - power.
«We are pleased that our perfectly roasted, single origin world coffees will help
fuel the SPM team with a win every morning and win
in every
race.»
However, later
in the season, it was discovered that Benetton was one of a few teams which had modified a filter within the refuelling rig, allowing the
fuel to flow faster and giving the team a serious advantage during the
race.
We were saving something — batteries, tyres or
fuel, not a single lap
in the
race we could push as much as we wanted.
Like other squad cars, it has additions specific to the department, few of which are well suited to
racing: a heavy cage
in the back; special alternators, brakes, and electronics to
fuel the lights; extra batteries; a heavy - duty cooling system; an altered suspension.
The 1985 San Marino Grand Prix had a bizarre and dramatic ending when most of the drivers left
in the
race at that point ran out of
fuel in the closing laps.
Though it's a bit off the pace, his Ligier is pretty efficient on
fuel and tyres so just before he finished his opening stint two hours into the
race, he found himself briefly
in the lead before handing over to teammate Phil Hanson.
Johnson appeared to have a shot to steal the title late
in the
race because he was on a different
fuel strategy that could allow him to make one less pit stop than Keselowski — but then the rear gear of Johnson's Chevy broke.
A lot of the
races that we do with the type of
racing that we sometimes have to do, where you're saving
fuel, like
in the last
race for example [
in Russia], I couldn't push because the car was overheating.
The Pocono IndyCar weekend
fueled by Sunoco
in July was a turning point
in the season for Scott Dixon and the entire Ganassi
Racing operation, as all three cars came from the second half of the field and used strategy to finish the
race sweeping the top three.
A noted Top
Fuel drag racer, Gwynn carried the rabbit foot with him when he won several big
races in the late 1980s.
Ayrton Senna had led the entire
race but was tight on
fuel after being pushed hard by teammate Alain Prost earlier
in the
race.
Instead of the original carbureted pushrod V - 8 of 350 horsepower, it uses a four - overhead - camshaft,
fuel - injected engine — again
in lightweight aluminum and again burning gasoline rather than
racing alcohol.
It slipped back to sixth
in the constructors»
in 2005, not helped by a
race ban for an illegal
fuel tank, and the team was completely taken over by Honda for 2006.
There was the weird Q3 «
fuel burn» phase
in 2006 and 2007, and the
race fuel qualifying until 2010.
Drivers had to start Q3 with the amount of
fuel they were going to start the
race with, which meant that much of the session was spent watching cars driving around trying to use as much
fuel as possible
in order to make their car as light as possible for their flying laps.
Drivers have to keep the pace up and manage tyre wear and
fuel use across a
race whilst also needing to adapt to potential strategy changes (of which there are many
in IndyCar, thanks to the number of caution periods).
Any hopes of a win were quickly dashed though, as it emerged he'd qualified with less
fuel than those around him and as a result he dropped back
in the
race.
(Repeating story from earlier Monday) * Prices of lean beef trimmings soar * Meat processors
race to find LFTB replacement * Loss of «pink slime»
fuels imports of lean beef trimmings By Michael Hirtzer and P.J. Huffstutter WESTERN SPRINGS, Illinois, May 14 (Reuters)- Behind the glass meat counter at Casey's Market
in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations - old tradition.
Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos has been
in the
race the longest,
fueling his run with his own personal wealth and hopes turnout from his home county will put him over the top later this month.
A Trump - for - governor boomlet
in 2014 was
fueled in large part by western New York Republicans who encouraged him to enter the
race.
While it's one thing to lead a nobody
in a
race for re-election (
fueled by a select few giving max contributions), it's quite another to get folks to dip into their pockets to buy your book.
The governor endorsed the former senator from New York and secretary of state immediately upon her entry into the
race — a move
fueled by a desire to jump ahead of the governor's foe, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio — and was a dutiful surrogate
in the run - up to Clinton's April 19 primary win over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco says the local chapter of the NAACP misunderstood his comments defending Trump's reaction over the weekend to
race -
fueled violence
in Charlottesville.
In the First District's Democratic primary on the East End, venture capitalist David Calone's repeated mailings that attempt to tie former Southampton Supervisor Anna Throne - Holst to Trump because she made contributions to the Conservative Party, which endorsed him, have fueled one of the most heated issues in the rac
In the First District's Democratic primary on the East End, venture capitalist David Calone's repeated mailings that attempt to tie former Southampton Supervisor Anna Throne - Holst to Trump because she made contributions to the Conservative Party, which endorsed him, have
fueled one of the most heated issues
in the rac
in the
race.
Powell recently hired strategist Michael Oliva, who previously told POLITICO New York that the winning message
in this
race will be about delivering services, not railing against a broken political establishment (which is currently
fueling Donald Trump's rise
in the Republican presidential primary, and helping Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders mount a surprisingly strong challenge to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
in the Democratic primary.)
Fueled by competitive Bronx Council
races and the debate about development at the Kingsbridge Armory (which turned into one of the biggest stories
in the city last December), we topped out at 877 posts.
The NAACP of Syracuse and Onondaga County on Tuesday called for state Sen. John DeFrancisco to apologize for remarks he made
in a radio interview about the
race -
fueled violence
in Charlottesville, Va..
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Katko called for Americans to unite against bigotry and white supremacists as pressure mounted today on President Donald Trump to explicitly condemn hate groups after
race -
fueled clashes turned violent this weekend
in Charlottesville, Va..
Marty Masterpole — arguably Miner's closest thing to an ally
in the
race — said «her passionate opinions have
fueled divisiveness rather than collaboration with other leaders putting the city at a detriment due to personal politics.»
State Sen. John DeFrancisco says the local chapter of the NAACP misunderstood his comments defending President Donald Trump's reaction over the weekend to
race -
fueled violence
in Charlottesville, Va..
The
race is on to tap the world's biggest and most unusual fossil
fuel supply — methane trapped
in frozen hydrates
in permafrost and at the bottom of the ocean
The best octane boosters can give you an edge
in racing competitions or just enhance your low - octane
fuel.
As oil prices continue into the stratosphere, the
race is on to find the new
fuel source or sources that will fulfill the long - anticipated revolution
in energy.
Timothy Ruppel, a
fuel expert at PerkinElmer
in Oak Brook, Ill., described testing procedures to ensure that every truckload of
racing fuel delivered to the track has the same chemical composition.
Carbon fiber moves off the
race track Most manufactures said they had already invested
in high - strength steel to meet 2012 - 2016
fuel economy standards, but that a shift may be required to meet more aggressive goals.
Race cars
in the Indianapolis 500 burn mostly
fuel - grade ethanol.
But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as
fuel in the
race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.
In their recent paper, Rebecca Pearson of the University of Bristol's Academic Unit of Psychiatry and her co-authors add
fuel to the
race - car - burning - rubber theory.
«We've got a real fun
race going on here between plugging
in vehicles and storing electricity
in the battery versus pumping hydrogen into a tank and creating electricity from a
fuel cell,» says Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research and development.