Sentences with phrase «rally cars around»

We walked through the forest and drove in her older brother's rally car around the paddock behind the house, then watched the sun set over the trees eating chocolate leftovers.

I'd hoped there'd be some similarity between driving this truck and whipping an all - wheel - drive rally car around a course, but there's none of the loose - everywhere feel of gravel under car tires.

Not exact matches

For the next two years, they traveled around the country, sometimes for months at a time, hitting car shows, swap meets, trade events, rallies, and anything else they could think of to get the Gas Monkey name out there.

From dogs on the stages to rolling (quite literally) around hairpins and car park detours, it was a pretty dramatic Rally Mexico.

The sight of rally cars blasting down tarmac roads, getting some air, bouncing around on landing and sliding around corners is pretty special

After all, lapping traffic at night at Le Mans is very different to putting in a qualifying lap at Monaco, and threading a rally car through the Finnish forests is a completely different ball game to doing a donut around an aeroplane.

WRC: FIA World Rally includes 15 official rallies from around the world, as well as 30 cars to choose from.

Today on the island we're getting a chance to rip around in a Group N version of Subaru's WRX STI rally car.

The owner eventually got around to mechanically restoring the car in the early 2000s and competed in a series of Italian rallies in 2002.

This week's Rumors Video Roundup goes around the world, from Evo's look at the Ford Fiesta rally car, to Motor Trend's acoustic version of the World's Greatest Drag Race, and Arthur St.

Along with deliciously patina - covered decals and race numbers scattered around the exterior, the car wears a set of functional Hella rally lights up front, an upgraded Koni suspension, and a modern braking system.

Starting on Thursday with a media - friendly start in Casino Square, there followed a ceremonial start in the harbour before the rally cars set off for the first two stages, run at night around the snowy ski resort of Gap.

It doesn't slow us down as we slalom a 2017 Volvo V90 Cross Country around a couple of tasty sports - rally car frozen lake circuits.

The second - generation RS, launched in 2009, looked wild, sounded plain naughty with its turbocharged 2.5 - liter five - cylinder engine and delivered an almost cartoonish driving experience — warbling like a Quattro rally car, weaving around under power and arcing into lift - off oversteer if you wavered for even a millisecond on the throttle mid-corner.

Yet even they weren't the most spectacular cars in the rally, because after a conversation on Twitter I discovered that also tearing around the special stages was a Ferrari 360 rally car.

With around 275bhp from an air cooled six - cylinder engine, this incredible factory - built 1969 911 S rally car has to be one of the greatest Porsches in the world.

And as much as I'm not personally a fan of this Nissan, it's still the car I'd choose if you asked me to set a record around a track in the dry, on a curvy road in the rain, or on a snow - covered rally stage.

After our R - GT win in the 2015 Monte Carlo Rally, a quick turn - around of the car was required before it set off for customer testing in Ireland.

Legendary rally racer, Tony Pond, set out in 1988 with his Rover Vitesse to try and become the first production car to average a 100 mph lap around the island, but Pond's attempt was an unsuccessful one.

Will Beaumont makes a sound point about the nature of the coverage: «I prefer the old style of rally coverage, where you'd see each car go around the same corner one after another before moving on to another corner.

In a dream world we'd all spend our time driving around France in road - going Group B rally cars, 70s sports saloons, small Japanese roadsters and a BMW M1.

Main Specifications of Subaru VIZIV Performance Concept Body size (overall length × width × height): 4,630 × 1,950 × 1,430 mm Wheelbase: 2,730 mm Tire size: 245/40 R20 Seating capacity: 5 persons Design Features To express the distinctive enjoyment of driving a Subaru, the VIZIV Performance Concept draws on previous models symbolizing the Subaru driving experience: the Legacy, which defined Subaru as a drivers» car, the Impreza, which took the World Rally Championship by storm, and the WRX, which still dominates motor racing around the world.

The 2010 Race of Champions will feature some of the most successful racers from around the world, but also some of the world's most famous names: Sébastian Loeb (seven - time World Rally Championship winner and three - time Race of Champions «Champion of Champions»), Andy Priaulx (three time WTCC champion), Jason Plato (double British Touring Car Championship winner), Alain Prost (four - time Formula 1 world champion) and the German pairing of seven - time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher and the recently - crowned 2010 Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel.

The basis for Audi Sport has been around since 1983 but operated under the name Quattro GmbH, a name that paid tribute to the original Audi Quattro — a rally - inspired road car that changed the Audi changed the Audi brand forever.

Almost on a daily basis, we express our complete obsession with rally racing, as their drivers have to have ice in their veins to even consider whipping a car around these often treacherous tracks at triple - digit speeds.

The road variants shared the transverse mid-engine, four - wheel drive layout of the rally car, but had less than half the power; at around 197 hp.

With good reason, the Subaru WRX STI has captured the hearts of rally car drivers and performance enthusiasts around the globe!

Despite having gone all «extreme» and losing its rally focus, it gave us a stunning handling model that delivered all the excitement of sliding a car around a mud covered corner.

I could clearly pinpoint gunfire, hear the gravel hitting the bottom of my rally car and make out the footsteps of some cheeky bugger sneaking around the map in Modern Warfare 3.

It's a fiesty, fun and fiery game that doesn't focus on skill, but on making you feel like a rally legend who can slide cars around the tightest of corners while going flat - out.

Having never driven a rally car in real life it's hard to comment on just how accurate DiRT Rally's incredibly slidey physics were, though I'd hazard throwing a powerful RWD card around gravel bends would indeed be a little slrally car in real life it's hard to comment on just how accurate DiRT Rally's incredibly slidey physics were, though I'd hazard throwing a powerful RWD card around gravel bends would indeed be a little slRally's incredibly slidey physics were, though I'd hazard throwing a powerful RWD card around gravel bends would indeed be a little slippy.

This can enhance the feeling of rallying alongside other like - minded daredevils, as can the attention to detail, such as cars getting covered in dirt when drifting around corners.

There are also different modes to choose from in Sebastien Loeb Rally Evo, you have your quick mode which lets you race around different tracks in rented or owned cars.

The game also features «the largest roster of rally cars on the market», with over 50 models produced by twenty car manufacturers from around the world.

«TrackMania» allows players to choose between a variety of cars (muscle, rally, etc.), environments and game modes and race against millions of players around the world on crazy tracks that feature jumps, loops, hairpin turns and more.

Supposing that my above statistics are correct It would be more prudent for society to rally around reforming our coal power plants more so than around car's and airplanes.