Sentences with phrase «time in a race car»

Haywood should know about the watch's durability — he owns nearly every model of Rolex Daytona ever made, most of them hard won from time in a race car.

Not exact matches

The car is a Ford GT40, a replica of the legendary vehicle that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans rally race four times in the 1960s.

The angular - looking concept version called Urus, unveiled for the first time in Beijing in 2012, had the same built - for - playboys appearance as Lamborghini's cars: sharp lines, wide rims, race - car aesthetics.

Those teams have incredible real - time analytics, not just at the race venue, but also real - time, big data beamed from a car driving at up to 200mph on a race track on one side of the globe to the race team's headquarters in England.

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.

Racing to the scene, he arrived just in time to observe the suspect getting into his car, and speeding away.

The drivers rushed back to their cars and prepared to get underway for a sprint to the flag, but in the time between the restart being announced and the drivers getting set to go, the fog set in again, and the race was ended.

«It's the first time for me in an endurance race, first time in a prototype car, first time driving at night, first time driving with GT cars around so many new things that will come step by step.

We can dream of a situation in which six cars have a chance of winning by the time the F1 flying circus arrives in Melbourne, but it's difficult to transfer winter testing times into a realistic running order and we'll only know part of the picture after the first race.

The greatest and most successful privateer F1 team of all time, Rob Walker Racing Team ran various cars between 1953 and 1970, the famous blue and white livery winning nine races - mostly in the hands of Stirling Moss.

On Sunday that's due to happen at 5:45 am local time, so tune in a bit before that and enjoy the cars driving at «the golden hour» - so called because this is when track conditions are usually at their best and cars often set their fastest laps of the race.

After what seemed like ages of waiting over the off - season, the car launches have come and gone in no time at all and before you know it, we'll be in Melbourne, getting hyped up for the first race.

The day before the race he took lunch at his hotel in the town of La Chartre - sur - le - Loire, 30 miles south of Le Mans, and looked at the trial times while mechanics worked on the cars in a Renault garage across the street.

In addition to his four CCWS championships, Bourdais is also the winner of 31 races in his Indy car career, tied with Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy for eighth on the all - time wins lisIn addition to his four CCWS championships, Bourdais is also the winner of 31 races in his Indy car career, tied with Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy for eighth on the all - time wins lisin his Indy car career, tied with Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy for eighth on the all - time wins list.

By race time, Porsche, with the four three - liter, 320 - horsepower cars, and nine other privately owned 2.2 - and two - liter starters, was heavily favored and the race began for them just as the season had in Florida.

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Indeed, Montoya had the fastest car all weekend at New Hampshire, setting the pace in every practice session, winning the pole with a track - record time on Friday and leading a race - high 105 laps on Sunday.

But the Chevrolet engineering staff seems too involved in making the rotary suitable for domestic - car use to spend time and money on racing.

Busch and Keselowski emerged as the dominant cars in the final third of the 500 - lap race, exchanging the lead multiple times between themselves.

In fact, his public image may have helped to hasten his downfall, for he was simply too busy with the public to spend time with his mechanics improving the team's race cars.

A sign of the times: A.J. Foyt, arguably the biggest name in the history of Indy car racing, will field a NASCAR Winston Cup team next season and is looking for a driver.

F1 cars raced at Oulton Park in the UK a number of times between 1954 and 1982, often competing for the «International Gold Cup».

From being fastest by 11 seconds in a wet practice session, to driving his car flat out with three wheels, to managing to win races with an absolute dog of a car (and so much more), Gilles cemented his place as an all - time great.

Apart from there obviously being more races this year, having two extra cars on the grid (Haas) no doubt helped, as did the number of times fast cars were out of position on the grid due to mechanical issues, penalties, or weather conditions in qualifying.

The car had suffered a wheel problem early in the race, losing time, but just as it was being lapped in a heavy braking zone it suffered a brake issue.

You run in the day, then in the night, then you've got the parade downtown with the fans, the meetings with the engineers, how the race will be divided up with your team mates, how to hand over the car to them without losing any time, and vice versa.»

Most weeks, as many as 200 drivers turn up in 200 gleaming cars, and they race 400 or 600 or 800 times till they've shaken themselves into hierarchies of velocity and control.

In the 16 races that year his race was ended by car failure 12 times and he spun out twice.

Montoya, the 1999 CART champion and 2000 Indianapolis 500 champion, has returned to open - wheel racing full time, driving the No. 2 car for Penske Racing in the Verizon IndyCar Series this season after seven years in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Sracing full time, driving the No. 2 car for Penske Racing in the Verizon IndyCar Series this season after seven years in NASCAR's Sprint Cup SRacing in the Verizon IndyCar Series this season after seven years in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series.

The test — at Sebring International Raceway in South Florida — was his first time in an Indy car since 2000, the same year that he won the Indianapolis 500 for Target Chip Ganassi Racing.

The team will be sponsored by NTT Data, the same organization that sponsored Kanaan when he drove for Ganassi in the Grand - Am race at Indianapolis this summer, the first time he had driven a car for Chip Ganassi.

Which is why when it was announced last month that he would not be returning to Earnhardt - Ganassi Racing next season, it was logical to think Montoya would either return to open - wheel racing or compete in sports cars full -Racing next season, it was logical to think Montoya would either return to open - wheel racing or compete in sports cars full -racing or compete in sports cars full - time.

The safety car came out in the hope the track could be cleared by the time the leaders got around, but eventually the red flag had to be thrown and the race ended, with Ferrari junior Charles Leclerc winning from McLaren junior Nyck de Vries.

Tandy, like Bamber, has been on Porsche's books for a while and spent time racing GT cars, where he notably won the 2015 Petit Le Mans outright in a Porsche 911 in the wet, beating the prototypes.

Unfortunately for Jenson Button that's exactly what happened at Monaco in 2010, and by the time McLaren had noticed it was too late - Button's engine overheated behind the safety car and he was out of the race.

The 18 - year - old was back behind the wheel of a racing car at Brands Hatch for the first time since his Formula 4 crash in April

This wasn't the first time Webber has driven racing machinery on public roads, having done a demo run across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a Williams F1 car in 2005, and across the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne for Red Bull in 2011.

2012 World Endurance Champion and three - time Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer is used to racing some of the fastest cars in some of the fastest championships.

The two - time champion had made it pretty clear that he was fed up racing in an under - performing car and he's finally said enough is enough.

Having spent most of May driving a fast, competitive car and being in the running to win a race for the first time in years, Fernando Alonso says he is excited to go back to Formula 1 to drive a slow, unreliable one where even the idea of a 12th - place finish would seem a bit optimistic.

He has raced hard, he is exciting and giving it everything every time he is in the car, and he loves what he is doing.

Four - time WRC champion Sebastien Ogier has dabbled in circuit racing on occasion, but in nothing that comes close to the performance of an F1 car.

Adrian Newey is one of the greatest racing car designers of all time, so naturally the excitement surrounding the Aston Martin Valkyrie project - which Newey and Red Bull have a hand in - is pretty high.

A Painesville, Ohio, judge ordered a man, who ran from police after being stopped for drinking in a car, to compete in a five - mile race; the faster his time in the event, the shorter his sentence will be.

The initial first part of that race on June 12 included this huge crash, after Josef Newgarden found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when friend and fellow racer Conor Daly lost the rear of his car.

With his F3 car stuck in the middle of the track, the marshals couldn't get the yellow flags out in time before Guan Yu Zhou ploughed into the side of him at racing speed.

It's a crossover attempt that harks back to a time in racing when top drivers in each discipline hopped from car to car.

The grid included a bunch of Le Mans winners, such as Tom Kristensen, Emanuele Pirro and Frank Biela, as well as several famous names from Audi's time in DTM, GT, and touring car racing.

The race went into overtime (yep, that's a thing in Nascar) five times thanks to a series of crashes, including «The Big One», which involved 18 cars.

Roberto Mehri was racing in F1 for Manor in 2015 but unusually decided to carry on racing in Formula Renault 3.5 at the same time, presumably so he didn't forget what it was like to drive a competitive car.