Sentences with phrase «team car»

In two full - course caution periods, the safety cars split the factory team cars, twice giving the No. 63 an advantage in track position.

The top Michelin technical partner team cars from BMW, Corvette Racing and Porsche North America all turned race laps within 0.5 seconds of that mark.

Even though the effect may in practice be less due to changing conditions, Blocken hopes that his findings will convince the UCI, the international cycling union, to change the rules for following team cars.

To remove any doubts the UCI should now increase the minimum gap to 30 meters, because at that distance the effect of team cars is negligible.

But Magnussen says he and his teammate, along with England's Oliver Gavin and American Tommy Milner in the second team car, will be ready for the challenge as they race in new Corvette C6.R cars.

In its one and only race at the 1978 Swedish GP Niki Lauda dominated, but after backlash from other teams the car was withdrawn from subsequent races.

Strictly speaking that may be against the rules, but TV pictures show that in practice that team cars don't always observe the 10 meters laid down by the regulations.

Before it was finished in such immaculate North American Racing Team livery, this particular Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa lived an extravagant life as a Scuderia Ferrari Team Car that even competed at Le Mans.

22 The flattened top and bottom of the steering wheel once more recall the helm of the F1 team cars.

Overall winner of the 1956 24 Hours of Le Mans, former Ecurie Ecosse team car.

Kazuki is new to the championship winning team car, and is unsurprisingly incredibly excited about the opportunity.

With just 50 genuine Blower Bentleys built to homologate the five Birkin team cars, cars with provenance and traceable histories are highly valued.

The second Blackdog Speed Shop team car features 2017 GT SprintX Pro-Pro champion Michael Cooper pairing with veteran Tony Gaples in the No. 11 Camaro GT4.R.

In the mid-1930s the success of Aston Martin's Team Cars in the Ulster TT road race led the marque to build further examples of the lightweight two - seater for sale to the public.

TU / e professor and cycling enthusiast Bert Blocken uses his aerodynamics knowledge to calculate the effects that following team cars have in today's cycling.

Leading the youth movement in the GTA class at Long Beach is Brazil's Rodrigo Baptista, who'll drive the K - PAX Racing team car to Parente in the No. 3 K - PAX Racing Bentley Continental GT3 which won the GT SprintX Pro-Am division two weeks ago at COTA.

In the case of the prologue of the Tour de France next Saturday in Utrecht, riders in this time trial can save around 6 seconds if the team car maintains a gap of 5 meters, instead of the 10 meters laid down by the regulations.

Which is why aerodynamics professor Bert Blocken is advising the international cycling union UCI to change the rules and increase the minimum gap between riders and their team cars.

And if the gap between the rider and the team car is reduced to just 3 meters, it can even reach a full minute.

And the smaller the gap between rider and car, the bigger the effect of the team car behind.

New aerodynamic research at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU / e) shows that riders in a time trial can save vital seconds by riding closer to the following team car.

Blocken has carried out computer simulations and wind tunnel measurements using models of a time trial rider and team car.

One of the very few motor manufacturers to actually sit in and race the cars he designed and built, the competition no doubt «improved the breed» and the «LM» team cars were very successful in national and international motor racing including at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.

Equaling its team car's solid and steady run, Marcel Fassler took the cockpit of the No. 4 Mobil 2 / Sirius XM Chevrolet Corvette C7 from Tommy Milner as the race headed into its final six hours.

A total of perhaps only 61 cars were built during this era made up of 7 team cars and 54 production cars, insufficient to save the company until the receiver came in 1925 and the demise of Aston Martin looked certain; the first of many such occasions.

Gavin and the No. 4 Corvette was the first of the team cars to pit at the 49 - minute mark for fuel, four Michelin tires and a driver change to Milner.

Through smart strategy, heads - up driving and solid pitwork the rest of the way, the Garcia / Magnussen / Rockenfeller trio gained back three laps and finished behind the team car in class.

Antonio put in a great final lap, and Oliver positioned the No. 4 to help the team car fight for the championship.

In third was the No. 912 team car to the winning Porsche, driven by Earl Bamber, Gianmaria Bruni and Laurens Vanthoor.

The good news: What they watched was the No. 22 team car, driven by Pipo Derani, Nicholas Lapierre and Johannes van Overbeek, win by a whopping 12.427 seconds over the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Konica Minolta Cadillac driven by Jordan Taylor, Renger van der Zande and IndyCar star Ryan Hunter - Reay.

Six - time 2016 winner Michael Schein figures to be one of the favorites in the GTA class with his No. 16 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, a team car to Patrick Long.

We had been racing and driving so hard for 24 hours, and I was racing a very fast teammate and our team car, which had slightly less fuel and newer tires.

Xzibitionist - 20 points.Get your team car to level 4 in the Blinged Out Ride mode a total of 50 times in ranked matches.

Blinged Out Ride had you trying to upgrade your team car from level 1 to level 4 before the opposing team, using the money they dropped upon death.

Racing team cars must be evaluated by the drivers to help the whole teams improve and refine the vehicles that they are going to use.