Sentences with phrase «set a record lap»

McLaren suffered several mechanical problems while Mercedes were also quick with new driver Valtteri Bottas setting a record lap time before Vettle on Thursday, 09 March 2017.

After setting a record lap time at Goodwood, the McLaren P1 LM has finally conquered the Nürburgring.

The Ultimate Track Camaro SS car set a record lap on the Milford Road Course time of 1:56.4, pretty close to the 1:53.7 lap cut by the $ 75,000 Camaro Z / 28.

The man just casually set a record lap in T - shirt and jeans, while almost all other drivers attempting such record wore racing overall.

A pre-production version of the new Type R claimed the title of world's fastest production front - wheel - drive (FWD) car on April 7, 2017, setting a record lap time of 7 minutes 43.80 seconds on Germany's legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife (North Loop), more than three seconds faster than the previous FWD best.

Not exact matches

Manhattan (N.Y.) College's two - mile relay team missed by only.2 second tying the 7:32.8 record it set last month in New York, but their 7:33 was the fastest ever run on a 12 - lap oval.

Yesterday, Daniel Ricciardo set an unofficial lap record with his 1.18.047 in the Red Bull RB14.

On May 29 this year, Paul drove a Mercedes 300SL to victory at Thompson, Conn, and set a new lap speed record in the process.

Indeed, Montoya had the fastest car all weekend at New Hampshire, setting the pace in every practice session, winning the pole with a track - record time on Friday and leading a race - high 105 laps on Sunday.

Ricciardo did set some blistering lap times on day two of the second test, a 1.18.047 lap on the new hypersoft compound an unofficial lap record at the Circuit de Barcelona - Catalunya.

He was also the main attraction at a fan event at Zandvoort earlier this year, where he set a new lap record of the circuit in a Red Bull RB8.

But we haven't set our hearts on any particular lap records at this stage.»

1:41.770 minutes - the 919 Hybrid Evo set an all - time record lap at one of the most challenging race circuits in the world: Spa - Francorchamps.

After this year's Australian Grand Prix had an amount of overtakes that you could count on one hand, it no longer mattered that the cars looked cool and were setting lap records, what mattered to fans was that the whole sport was ruined and Ross Brawn needed to fix things quickly.

He put in a 1:19.511 to set a new record for a lap around the historic circuit and Red Bull has now released footage, from a range of angles, of the run.

With two wins already on the young PGA Tour season — including last week at Kapalua, where Thomas turned in his most impressive performance yet, lapping the field with a record - setting performance at the Sony Open in Hawaii.

Rookie of the Year honors went to GARTH BROW, who took the 20 - lap, half - mile - oval race in a track - record 7:32.8, 3.8 seconds under the mark Springsteen set last year.

By this point, Giancarlo Fisichella was leading by a mile, but on a wet setup was struggling for ultimate pace as Raikkonen chased him down, setting lap records on the way.

It was a slightly fortunate win, sure, but Verstappen had shown his mettle by calmly holding off Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari for several laps to take the victory, aged just 18 years and 228 days, in the process setting a record that is going to take some serious beating.

It's not the official lap record, that has to be set in the race to count, but it's still the fastest ever lap around the circuit and that's pretty damn cool.

Muir was right behind Jenny Meadows as the pair passed through the first three laps on record pace, but then the Scot took control and chased down the record Holmes set at the same meeting in 2004 with a 2.31.93 which was also a European record.

Sebastian Vettel set a new lap record during the Belgian Grand Prix, taking over six - tenths of a second off the benchmark he set eight years ago.

Certainly not a healthy diet for the rest of us, considering he swims more than 400 laps a day - at record - setting speeds.

British pop singer Olly Murs broke Hugh Jackman's track record to set a new lap time target for fellow stars when he raced a car for British Tv show...

Coming out on fresh tyres Mansell set a lap record which was two seconds quicker than Senna and with three laps to go was right behind the Brazilian.

Later this week it will dominate qualifying, set a new track record — perhaps with a sub 3 - minute, 16 - second lap time — and if the race were run on paper, it would dominate the field.

Here's a first: a manufacturer set a Nurburgring lap record and didn't immediately brag about it.

Read Chris's reaction to his Ring 24 hours racing seat Alongside Harris and Rohrl in Porsche's team will be German Touring Car ace Roland Asch (who's driven a 911 GT3 Cup in the Dubai 24 hours) and Horst von Saurma, a German motoring journalist who's driven 911s in the Ring 24 hours before, as well as setting a Nordschleife lap record in a Porsche Carrera GT.

Honda has already set a goal of beating the front - wheel - drive lap record at the Nürburgring with this new performance hatch.

Renaultsport has returned to the Nurburgring with the stripped out Megane 275 Trophy - R, setting a new front - wheel drive lap record.

Nürburgring nuts, get ready for some serious controversy: French automaker Renault has a set a new lap record for production front - wheel - drive vehicles on Germany's «Green Hell.»

On October 9, Michael Shank Racing will test the EcoBoost - powered car in a bid to beat the 210.364 - mph lap record set at Daytona in 1987 by NASCAR racer Bill Elliot.

That just - announced record, a 7:51.110 lap time for the fastest four - door roadgoing sedan, was set about a year ago, shortly after the 2016 WTCC Race of Germany.

Before setting its quickest time, the 911 GT2 RS was able to beat the Lamborghini Huracan Performante's record with their first lap and the car easily cracked below 6:50 afterwards.

The record - setting lap was ran while Cyan Racing was testing both race and road cars for the sake of development.

Unlike the Nurburgring lap record - setting Nio EP9, which is all purpose and no comfort, Project ONE caters to rich poseurs as well as professional racers.

Manabu Nishimae, the President of Honda Motor Europe, said that a Civic Type R prototype has already set a time «approaching the lap record» in recent testing.

Toyota has been to the Nurburgring in the Prius plug - in hybrid, setting a lap record of sorts.

Having already set the lap record for electric vehicles at the Nurburgring, it's now taken home two records from Austin's Circuit of the Americas.

Stefan Bellof holds the official lap record set in 1983 in a Porsche 956.

He also set the record for fastest lap time at 6 minutes and 25.91 seconds, which remains the official record to this day.

The plan is of course to hand the Performante over to pro driver Randy Pobst — the man who set the Big Willow lap record of 1:23.54 — to see what he can make of the bright green beastie.

The Mercedes - AMG E63 S 4Matic + lapped the Nürbugring Nordschleife in 7:45.19 minutes, setting a new record for a wagon.

All of this performance potential combined earlier this year to set a blistering lap time of 7 minutes, 50 seconds on the challenging Nürburgring racetrack, beating the previous front - wheel - drive production lap record, not to mention more powerful sports cars.

In 2010, a race car driver Tommi Makinen set a new Nürburgring lap record for production sedans behind the wheel of Subaru WRX STI Spec C.

The Pagani Zonda R recently set a new lap record for a production - derived sports car around the Nürburgring's Nordschleife.

Testing is currently underway at Donington Park, where drivers Sam Bird and Jean - Eric Vergne have been setting competitive times in their DSV - 01 as the lap records tumble.

The lap record for this currently stands at 1:12.6, set by Marko Asmer in his Dallara - Mercedes Formula Three car in 2007.

Motor Trend hot shoe and pro racer Randy Pobst set the Laguna Seca lap, and pro racer Tommy Kendall cracked the record at Texas MotorSport Ranch.

1) There is no official start / finish line with manufactures varying their» record» laps by as much as 300 meters 2) There is no third party verification nor anyone outside the manufactures and their test team overseeing the» laps» 3) There is no one outside the manufactures and their test teams proving a time was even set..