Sentences with phrase «tight hairpin turns»

As a result, the controls are extremely fluid, allowing you to chuck the car around the notoriously tight hairpin turns with ample accuracy.

It isn't until a tight hairpin turn that the LC's portlier curb weight can no longer be masked by its platform, steering and optional go - faster parts.

Not exact matches

There are several tight, uphill hairpins on this early stretch of Decker; hard on the gas, then the brakes, drop a gear with a roarty throttle blip, turn in, and the Miata tucks its nose in eagerly.

Accelerating down the long straight from the tight turn - 11 hairpin is an experience to savor, but now we're hard on the brakes for the 90 - degree left that we were approaching at massive speed just a moment ago.

The charge into the tight, second - gear hairpin asks a lot from the brakes, but there's plenty of stopping power and the turn - in is responsive.

It really is quite fun to drive when you don't feel like it does not have a tight enough turning circle to negotiate the tighter hairpins and feels too wide to slip by a delivery truck, or handcuffed by impossible sight angles that even a convertible would be challenged to deal with.

One corner that's unique to Long Beach is the very tight hairpin at Turn 11.

The 20 - turn, 3.41 - mile road course's high - speed esses, long back straight, heavy brake zones and tight hairpins are a thorough workout for race cars and high - performance road cars alike, and here I am, tackling it in an SUV.

These are tight, hairpin turns with nothing standing between you and that aforementioned plummet other than a few guardrails and cement barriers.