Sentences with phrase «than a race car»

«It's no different than the race cars.

Did you know that a tornado travels faster than a race car?

Owing mainly to the fact it has a far plusher interior than the race car, curb weight for the street - legal M6 is 4,220 to 4,250, depending on whether the car is equipped with a six - speed manual or a seven - speed dual - clutch transmission.

The new road car will be called the SCG003S, rather than the race car SCG003C.

«I think this thing brakes better than the race car,» he murmurs.

Looking at historical race photos, it's apparent that vintage race transport trucks were almost cooler than the race cars they carried.

Did you know that the Corvette ZR1 street car has more hp than the race car?

The GTI TCR 2.0 - turbo engine makes 285 hp, which is 65 more than the «ordinary» GTI's and 84 fewer than the race car's, plateauing between 5,000 and 6,800 rpm.

Riding a bike feels even better than racing a car, and Evolution Studios has completely nailed the feel of learning how to tame a two - wheeled beast.

Not exact matches

Even though I was driving for a team I hadn't driven for, and the pedals in the car were different than what I'm used to... the weirdest thing was driving to the race track knowing I was actually going to race.

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

Philip Morris has sponsored a racing car in the Grand Prix for more than a decade, and R.J. Reynolds has sponsored a car since 1987.

However, having a good starter won't make you a good sourdough baker any more than having a hot race car will make you a great racer.

Relatively safe fender - banging is one reason that NASCAR has become vastly more popular than Indy car racing.

Try racing against literally hundreds of cars, all driven by complete amateurs and none of which cost more than 500 bucks.

It got so bad that Fernando decided that he'd prefer to do the Indy 500 than race at Monaco, and on a few occasions even retired a car that had nothing wrong with it because he couldn't be bothered to drive around near the back with no hope of achieving anything meaningful.

It's not like an engine penalty either (which is applied to the car rather than the driver) so Fernando Alonso won't have to serve it when he returns to F1 for the next race in Montreal.

Although the 2018 cars are looking set to be the fastest ever, their minimum weight has ballooned to 734 kg (next year it'll go up to 740 kg)- significantly more than when Kubica was last racing in 2010.

With Brawn's call to make F1 cars more video game - like, and Symonds singing the plaudits of virtual environments, we're sat here wondering how long it takes before F1 drivers have to submit their gamertag rather than a race number and what's the timescale on replacing Charlie Whiting with a hologram created by Codemasters?

Lewis Hamilton has spoken out about it because during the Australian Grand Prix he had to focus more on saving the car for future races than challenging Sebastian Vettel for the victory.

The Red Bull Racing driver believes he's been much quicker than his teammate this year when his car hasn't been breaking down

There are few things in the motorsport world greater than seeing a single - seater race car being chucked up a hill climb with maximum commitment and flair.

After taking the only pole of his career, Giacomelli shot off into the lead and comfortably stayed there for more than half the race - but then his car stuttered to a halt with electrical failure.

He drove with far more verve than finesse, had far more than his share of accidents, and his wrinkled cars were his racing trademark.

This track taxes the stock cars — last year nine drivers, or 20.9 % of the field, suffered mechanical failures in this race — and produces more fender - banging than any other track in the Chase.

Carroll Shelby, the rawboned Texan who put together a winning streak of 19 straight for absentee owners, was tapped by SCCA President Jim Kimberly for Saturday's four - hour race for cars of less than two liters displacement.

As a team, Red Bull also overtook more cars than any other and was also overtaken the least of any team, presumably helped by the fact that one of the cars would end up breaking down not long into the races.

Designer Gordon Murray reckoned that if cars ran two stints on low fuel and soft tyres that it'd be much quicker than trying to do the whole race without stopping.

After testing a Formula E car in Mexico this weekend, she's said that aspiring female racing drivers should focus on trying to achieve a career there, rather than in Formula 1.

The race didn't last much longer than one corner for some cars, after an attempt to go three - wide through the opening chicane predictably ended in tears.

Despite jumping back behind the wheel of an adapted Fun Cup Endurance race car in July, just less than three months since his accident at Donington, Monger has since set his sights back on single seaters.

But the whole reason the Trulli train was a thing was because he'd usually qualified so much higher than expected and come the race, the car simply didn't have to pace to stay there.

Stock - car racing may not have caught on as big nationally as country music, but through the South it enjoys a more devoted grassroots following than any other sport except football.

The total cost of a ready - to - race car (which will be 25 per cent more powerful than the current cars) will be no more than $ 817,300, which breaks down like this:

America's biggest equine event, The National Horse Show, which opens its annual eight - day stand next week (Nov. 2 - 9) in Madison Square Garden, had no more class than a six - day bike race when it was first held in a car barn in 1883.

The acrimony abated in Indy car racing, and so did the rain, as qualifying set the stage for this year's 500 — and at a far faster pace than anyone expected

«He's no different than any other race car driver, he's has had run - ins, but they haven't been as notable because they weren't as close to the front,» Keselowski said.

In 1958 and 1959, by winning no fewer than 45 sports car races, he began to attract the attention of top works teams.

From 1976 to 1980 he made the disastrous call to race for his own Fittipaldi team, which yielded no more than a couple of podiums in largely uncompetitive cars.

Few things in motorsport are less exciting than a race finishing behind the safety car, but that definitely wasn't the case here.

Race director Charlie Whiting dismissed Vettel's concerns, saying it's always been the case that the safety car can change the race and that safety is more important than making sure it's fRace director Charlie Whiting dismissed Vettel's concerns, saying it's always been the case that the safety car can change the race and that safety is more important than making sure it's frace and that safety is more important than making sure it's fair.

Kurt Busch, Race car driver NASCAR's rising star from Las Vegas has won four races and more than $ 5 million in each of the past two seasons.

«I think who's building your engine is more important than what kind of body you've got on your race car, and Robert Yates did a lot of homework this winter.»

But as well as looking badass, it's also set to be faster and more efficient than the existing car, and will also be able to complete a race on a single charge, meaning no more car swaps.

The grid sets up an intriguing race for tomorrow and the Mercedes drivers look like they could genuinely struggle to finish any better than they start - well, maybe one position higher once Verstappen's car inevitably breaks down.

Whilst Montoya had use of the test facilities he also took the Chiron up to a speed of 261mph, which is faster than he's ever gone any of his racing cars before.

Everybody in commentary (Sky / BBC / C4) enjoyed the tired old «Fernando is faster than you» jokes as he got stuck behind the Williams of Felipe Massa for the rest of the race, but he did manage to stay in front of another Mercedes - engined car which was surely a result.

In 200 races, Hamilton scored 68 pole positions, because his car was better than everyone else's.

You can pretend to be a race car, faster than fastest lightning, and ask your child which character you could be.

Alcohol was not forbidden fruit for me as a teen, although drinking and driving was, and I think as a result I approached it better than many of my peers (who would jump in the car and race home from a party to make curfew, whereas I was encouraged to call home and say that I needed to sober up before driving).