Sentences with phrase «sports racing car»

The legendry D - Type succeeded the C - Type in 1954, many aficionados consider the D - Type to be the classic post-war sports racing car.

Stephenson agrees: «We have ended up with a car that looks as futuristic as a concept car — except that it will go into production — and with similar aerodynamic properties to a sports racing car.

The rear deck is extraordinarily low, just like a sports racing car.

A sports racing car of the early to mid 1980s powered by the Aston Martin V8 engine.

The C5 - R changed the Corvette's reputation all over the world, proving that GM could make a sports racing car just as well as anyone else.

Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes - AMG GmbH: «With the CLA 45 AMG Racing Series we are providing a preview of another exciting customer sports racing car from Mercedes - AMG.

World premiere at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt / Main: The CLA 45 AMG Racing Series concept car provides a preview of a further customer sports racing car from Mercedes - AMG, alongside the world success of the SLS AMG GT3 gullwing racing car.

The standard version of the CLA 45 AMG, which has been available since June 2013, has the perfect genes for a competitive customer sports racing car: As the world's most powerful four - cylinder engine in series production, the turbocharged AMG 2.0 - litre unit generates 265 kW (360 hp) and maximum torque of 450 newton metres.

Homologated according to the FIA GT3 race rules, this customer sports racing car is active in more than 22 race series and on five continents of the world.

The striking AMG Panamericana grille underlines the motor racing heritage: 15 chrome - plated, vertical bars echo the look of the current Mercedes ‑ A MG GT3 customer sports racing car.

The Jaguar D - Type is a sports racing car that was produced by Jaguar Cars Ltd. between 1954 and 1957.

Pre-Reunion — August 12-13 1947-1955 Sports Racing and GT Cars 1955 - 1962 GT Cars 1955 - 1961 Sports Racing cars under & over 2000cc 1958 - 1960 Formula Junior — front engine & drum brake cars 1961 - 1963 Formula Junior — disc brakes 1961 - 1966 GT Cars under 2500cc 1963 - 1966 GT cars over 2500cc 1970 - 1984 Sports Racing cars under 2100cc 1973 - 1981 FIA, IMSA, GT, GTX, AAGT 1981 - 1991 FIA / IMSA GTP

After sending out feelers to its clients, American Ferrari collector James Glickenhaus eventually agreed to back the project by commissioning his car as a modern homage to great Ferrari sports racing cars such as the 330 P3 / 4, 512 S, 312 P, and 333 SP on the last unregistered U.S. - spec Enzo chassis.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Mazda built a handful of incredible rotary - powered sports racing cars to promote its rotary - powered production cars.

It is the Club Circuit Sports Race Car, and Autobytel got the...

«History will remember the C5 - R as one of the best sports racing cars of all - time and we've set the bar high for the C6 - R.

«History will remember the C5 - R as one of the best sports racing cars of all time, and we've set the bar high for the C6.R,» said Mark Kent, director of GM Racing.

The McLaren P1's downforce is similar to current sports racing cars, including the 12C GT3 racer.

The King Cobra name was first introduced by Carroll Shelby in 1963 for the high - performance Cooper Monaco sports racing cars he built with mid-mounted 289 cubic - inch Ford V8 engines.

Not exact matches

In a sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk of driving a race car at 200 miles per hour and still perform at the highest level, he talked about his injury.

And if that's not enough, in 2010 C.J. founded CJ Wilson Racing, a sports car race team that recently announced its move up to the IMSA GTD class, one of the premier sports car classes in the world.

A lifelong adrenaline junkie, the Ottawa - born software pioneer fell in love with the fastest and most dangerous sports there are: professional race car and motorcycle driving.

Stock - car racing is clearly a mainstream sport... but it's not sports - car racing, which has its own culture, one that definitely deserves respect.

Sports - car racing is the best sports - business success story hiding in plain sight: IMSA, the premier sanctioning body for sports - car competition in North AmSports - car racing is the best sports - business success story hiding in plain sight: IMSA, the premier sanctioning body for sports - car competition in North Amsports - business success story hiding in plain sight: IMSA, the premier sanctioning body for sports - car competition in North Amsports - car competition in North America.

Then, a 1936 Aston Martin 2 - liter sports - racing two - seater car is seen selling for between $ 2.1 million and $ 2.6 million on September 10 at the Goodwood Revival festival in England.

Ferrari NV RACE said Thursday that net profit rose 19 % in the first quarter in part thanks to higher sales of its sports cars, including the new 812 Superfast and 488 models.

Ferrari profit rises on sales of new modelsFerrari NV RACE said Thursday that net profit rose 19 % in the first quarter in part thanks to higher sales of its sports cars, including the new 812 Superfast and 488 models.

Recently uploaded by YouTube's resident drag race enthusiast — DragTimes — the race between the electric car and the pedigreed ICE sports car was tense until the very end.

By the time you've realized that truth, you're racing down the streets in a boosted sports car, bag of money and assault rifle laying on the back seat.

And she soon also followed her father into motor racing, eventually becoming a winner in sports car and GT endurance racing, even driving in the grueling 24 hours of Le Mans.

If the track magnate who hosts five of the Indy Racing League's 11 events gets his way, Indy cars could be sporting fenders as early as next year.

«In view of extremely hazardous conditions at the Watkins Glen course, because racing at this site under present circumstances places all organized motor sport in jeopardy,» says the Sports Car Club of America, it is banning to its members all races at the Glen until further notice.

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

Jan 04,2016... With the world's best drivers and top - ranking factory teams, America's biggest sports car race achie...

Last year Ferrari decided to opt out of sports - car racing, after a multitude of very successful seasons, and concentrate on Grand Prix racing instead.

The low square car not only won the biggest single event in sports - car racing but in doing so also squeezed by Porsche to win for itself the International Manufacturers» Championship by a slim three points.

NASCAR Grand National Division 50 - mile race, $ 4,200, Greensboro, N.C. Targa Florio International Sports Car Championship, Sicily.

The mechanical stars of a pair of zestful Sports Car Club of America endurance races last weekend on the exacting Road America course at Elkhart Lake, Wis. were bright - red Italian machines, an Osca and a Ferrari.

This was a weekend dedicated to the proposition that the owner of a sports car should turn up in the driver's seat on race day.

But what really makes Busch so formidable on flat tracks such as New Hampshire (those with little or no banking in the corners) is that he can control a loose race car (meaning the rear end slides up the track through the corners) as expertly as anyone in the sport.

NASCAR Grand National Division 100 - mile race, $ 4,200, Greenville, S.C. SCCA Sprint Sports Car Races, Danville, Va. (also May 4).

In sweeping the Daytona 24 - hour race some rugged German sports cars demonstrated that they are the threats of the year in the altered game of endurance racing.

A vintage - car race served up many of the sport's best surviving drivers as happy participants.

He later went on to race in the British Touring Car Championship and sports car championships, as well as Grand Prix MasteCar Championship and sports car championships, as well as Grand Prix Mastecar championships, as well as Grand Prix Masters.

Despite never winning an F1 race, Cheever still achieved a lot in his varied motorsport career, winning sports car races, finishing runner - up at Le Mans twice, racing in CART and standing on the top step of the podium in IndyCar and winning the famous Indianapolis 500 in 1998.

Trim enough at 47, Greenberg used to race sports cars and motorcycles and still tools to his office at Miami's Mount Sinai Medical Center in a high - powered Porsche.

It almost makes you wish tracks were still like this, until you remember that this is the very same race where the ultra-talented Stefan Bellof tragically lost his life, cutting short a a career that had yet to fully blossom in either Sports Cars or Formula 1.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

The final race of the day saw a Group C race and it's really not that difficult to understand why these are the fans» favourite era of sports car racing with the looks and the sound to go with it.

A sports car buff who has not been seen riding a bicycle in years, the prince nevertheless climbed aboard a two - wheeler in Stockholm and led the field through part of the first lap of a bike race, pulling nimbly aside after 850 meters and letting the 60 - odd competitors pedal past.