Sentences with phrase «tight hairpins»

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

There is enough front - end grip to keep the GT feeling stable even in tight hairpin corners and the steering is weighty and accurate enough, although doesn't provide a great deal of feedback.

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

Tracks also have a good variety of long straights and smooth bends, letting you glide at fantastic speeds as well as tight hairpin bends which, if taken perfectly, will make you feel like a real champion.

Tracks also have a good variety of long straights and smooth bends, letting you glide at fantastic speeds as well as tight hairpin bends which, if taken perfectly, will make you feel like a real champion.

Even in tight hairpins, the stability control system didn't have to intervene much to keep the Vitara tracking correctly with the power firmly applied.

Despite the open diff the Adam doesn't devolve into rampant wheelspin, even out of tight hairpins with stability and traction control disengaged.

The effect is barely noticeable and only really comes into play around tight hairpins or in parking situations.

The Vulcan is a big, wide car and it feels it at the first tight hairpin, the tail slipping sideways and the traction control cutting in as Turner makes a swift correction.

As much as we'd love to brake as little possible to avoid losing momentum, there are a few seriously tight hairpins and we have to slow down.

Tight hairpins make it easy to rotate the rear end using the throttle with stability control in Track mode, which allows for slip angle before the nannies cut in and kill the party.

Drivers can keep their hands firmly gripped on the steering wheel through tight hairpins, maximising their control over the vehicle.

Quick direction changes somewhat upset the 4,100 - pound FX, so tight hairpins and quick switchbacks were a bit dicey if not taken with care.

As such, the approximately five - meter long (16.4 ft) Sedan is much more agile in urban traffic, on tight hairpin bends and while parking.

Power sliding round tight hairpin bends with a pumping sound track was such a new experience.

Those dynamics changes might mean that a particularly tight hairpin needs to be altered, and that might have a knock - on on environment art.

The flat paperclip shaped track with long straightaways and tight hairpin corners is among the most perplexing on the Cup schedule.

With its lack of tight hairpins and abundance of sweeping bends, it's actually easier on the brakes than you might imagine, and the stunning scenery with its long snow - tunnels and viaducts makes this a spectacular alternative to the 15 km tunnel that runs beneath.

The minor gripe we have is that the paddles are attached to the column instead of to the steering wheel — in tight hairpins, your grip must be disrupted to click a shift.

He ended up winning the opening race but the second one saw him spin strangely on the formation lap at the street circuit's tight hairpin.

Coulthard was holding P1 early in the 1995 Australian GP when he locked up going into the tight hairpin at the pit entry and crashed into the wall, damaging his suspension.

As Formula E circuits go it's one of the longest and mixes high - speed sections with those fiddly chicanes and tight hairpins that feature on most of the tracks on the calendar.

As for the track itself, overtaking tends to be quite difficult at Sonoma, but the tight hairpins can lead to some optimistic lunges which then lead to caution periods, which as ever in IndyCar have the potential to completely shake up the order.

However there's a surprise ahead as the circuit begins to transform and a tight hairpin elevates into the sky.

We're getting a taste of how far that relationship has come as we power the Continental GT into yet another tight hairpin along a stretch of the Großglockner pass, a spectacular alpine route that cuts across jagged, fog - swathed peaks and deep canyons covered with lush, snow - packed forests.

This tyre bridges the gap between daily road tyres and track rubber, with motorsport inspired dual compound technology making it perfect for a location that mixes heavy braking, aggressive acceleration and tight hairpins.

You're never going to overcome the SRT8's inherent understeer through anything but tight hairpins, so don't bother trying.

Turn 11 is a tight hairpin, and the 2016 Cadillac ATS - V accurately turns in, clips the apex, and powers out before rocketing down the long back straight, all 464 horses from its ferocious twin - turbo V - 6 galloping madly.

These days it's a wide right - handed funnel that leads to a tight hairpin left and after three successive tweakings to kerbs and run off areas that have messed up all the lap record charts, it's a half - sensible compromise.

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.

A run in the roadster suggested just a little tremor in the steering column, but both cars were uniform in their ability to retain front grip in even the tightest hairpins.

Fling it hard into a tight hairpin, hard on the brakes all the way to the apex.

«Horse Thief Mile is a very tight, intense circuit with some elevation change on the corners and some short - burst straights and some tight hairpins as well, so it really replicates what you'll see at Pikes Peak,» said Millen.

The M550i willingly dives into the tight hairpins and decreasing - radius turns of the Rockies.

When I switched to manual gear selection, the 520 horsepower and 481 pound - feet of torque from the twin - turbo 4 - liter V - 8 let me keep it in third for all but the tightest hairpins and longer straights.

The course also features a tight hairpin turn and a run around Camden Yards — home of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles.

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.

Throwing the Mazda3 into a tight hairpin corner, it was easy to forget that I was in a family sedan rather than the road - hugging MX - 5 sports car.

It's only around the tighter stuff that one can feel the weight of the SUV, say around a tight hairpin for instance, where one does experience some understeer.

It's free from any steering kick or rattle, there's only a whiff of torque steer — even at full noise out of tight hairpins — and the ZB tiller telegraphs less unwanted interference from the road than the VF it replaces.

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.

Developer: Codemasters Publisher: Codemasters Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: Yes Split - Screen: Yes Co-op: Yes PEGI: 3 + I'm hurtling down a straight at insane speeds in my Lotus; the tight hairpin is approaching fast, but Sebestian Vettel's rocket powered Red Bull hasn't taken massive chunks out of my lead -LSB-...]

I'm hurtling down a straight at insane speeds in my Lotus; the tight hairpin is approaching fast, but Sebestian Vettel's rocket powered Red Bull hasn't taken massive chunks out of my lead on that single straight and I need to leave my braking for this corner as late as possible to try to claw back a little bit of time and hold the lead for the final lap.

Let alone when they're navigating a tight hairpin or something.

The exception to this is the blatant remake of the Polar Wharf track from Mashed, a layout of two long frozen straights linked by a tight hairpin at either end.