Sentences with phrase «tire barrier»

To limit track cutting, they've constructed numerous tire barriers on tracks that aren't actually there in real life.

Sparco seats and seat belts and custom - built roll cage (made by long - time friend, FC3S drifter Henry Shelley) kept me safe during the 103 - MPH tire barrier kiss in the Vegas round.

The left - rear tire went off the surface just enough to send Magnussen into a spin and hard into the outside tire barrier.

Kurt Busch nailed the wall and ended his day early, and Denny Hamlin followed with an even scarier head - on collision with the tire barrier when his brakes failed following a blown tire.

Earlier, Busch's brother Kurt also blew a brake line and crashed into a tire barrier (in a different spot than Hamlin).

Entering Turn 1, Hamlin blew a tire and cut a brake line, which sent his car head - on into the tire barriers in a tremendous collision.

Brambilla, a practitioner of the collisionist's art, ended up against the worn - tire barrier, while Reutemann made it down the car - eating Linden Avenue drop, only to choke out shortly beyond.

He damaged the nose after glancing off a tire barrier during practice, but the team repaired it easily, and neither car suffered any other hiccups.

A brake rotor failure pitched O'Connell into a tire barrier at speed, and hard contact with another car severely damaged the rear suspension of Beretta's Corvette C6.R.

He placed 11th after clipping a tire barrier early in the race.

Running second in class at the 56 - minute mark, Fellows had a close encounter with an LMP1 prototype and caromed into a tire barrier.

Jan Magnussen was cut off by a faster prototype car in the Ford Chicane and spun into the tire barriers.

As the Lambo goes into (and under) the tire barrier, Garcia throws the Corvette into a quick spin to reduce his speed and he avoids the same fate of the Huracan.

The impact sent Magnussen hard into the tire barrier at Turn 3, damaging the front end and left - front suspension.

Milner had light contact with the tire barrier but was able to continue albeit in sixth position.

Despite going into a tire barrier during a practice session, Taylor's driving during the 24 hour race was one of the bright spots of this year's Le Mans campaign for Corvette Racing.

Beretta took the green flag and had moved up to fourth by the 30 - minute mark, but an encounter with a tire barrier damaged the front bodywork and driver's door, dropping them to eighth.

The race began under a threat of thunderstorms, and finished under the day's fourth yellow flag when the No. 02 Ferrari went into the tire barrier in the final turn with nine minutes remaining on the race clock.

The Corvette went off - course and hit a tire barrier which damaged the front bodywork and driver's door.

The # 4 Corvette C5 - R of Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta climbed back to third position after a massive crash on lap 54 which sent Gavin into the tire barriers after Turn 1.

At this year's Sebring race, a carbon front brake rotor disintegrated and Johnny smashed into a tire barrier at 150 mph.

Then, last month at VIR, Alvaro's Bentley was knocked into a tire barrier by another car.

At St. Petersburg, a mechanical issue on his No. 9 K - PAX Racing Bentley Continental GT3 sent Parente and his machine into a tire barrier at some 100 miles per hour.

O'Connell pitched the car sideways into the tire barrier, and then limped the Corvette back to the pits with right - side body damage.

At St. Petersburg, a mechanical issue on his No. 9 Bentley Continental GT3 sent Parente and his machine into a tire barrier at some 100 miles per hour.

Tommy Milner had the only incident of the evening when he kissed the tire barrier at Mulsanne Corner.

Corvette Racing rebounded from a troubled practice this morning that saw the No. 4 Corvette lose nearly half of the two - hour session to a drivetrain problem and the No. 3 Corvette have a close encounter with the tire barrier in Turn 8.

A high speed spin and hard contact with the tire barrier relegated the Audi down the running order but not out of the race.

Driver O'Connell pitched the car into a spin that softened the impact against a tire barrier in Turn 17.

The No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6.R driven by Ron Fellows, Johnny O'Connell and Max Papis finished one lap behind the GT1 class winner after a brake rotor failure sent the car into a tire barrier.

In the early morning light with a little over 8 hours to go in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Corvette Racing's Tommy Milner went off course and struck a tire barrier on the Dunlop chicane.