Sentences with phrase «up to racing cars»

He made the step up to racing cars in 2007, finishing third overall in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Championship.

Not exact matches

And if that's not enough, in 2010 C.J. founded CJ Wilson Racing, a sports car race team that recently announced its move up to the IMSA GTD class, one of the premier sports car classes in the world.

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.

Taking America out of the running in the global race to clean up our cars can only lead to the next wave of bankruptcies and bailouts.

The image of the pit stop might easily work for church services if one could think only of the gassing up and servicing a car gets at the race track and say that the Christian needs to come every Sunday to get gassed up and serviced — but already we are in deep trouble.

I stopped my car beside the bridge and hiked out to the day's last scene which starred my strong and happy sons fast racing up along a gravelled path, each to....

This all built up to a huge crash with 19 hours remaining, after Pierre Kaffer's No. 82 Ferrari was barged out of the way by Matthieu Vaxiviere's No. 28 TDS Racing LMP2 car.

In the race he even led for a few laps, but come the end had slipped to eighth as faster cars moved up the order.

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.

So when the cars were lined up ahead of the race, some teams started to dry the track.

The three - engine rule is already having an effect on the racing, with Lewis Hamilton reluctantly having to give up his battle with Sebastian Vettel to preserve his car

After a mediocre opening lap and a bit of argy - bargy with Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton quickly made his way past the midfielders and up to fourth, including perhaps the moment of the race when he passed three cars in one go.

This was a weekend dedicated to the proposition that the owner of a sports car should turn up in the driver's seat on race day.

We need to keep momentum on our side and show up with fast race cars and I think we can put ourselves in position to possibly be in the Chase.

That meant he had some advantages other drivers didn't necessarily have, like at the 1996 Spanish Grand Prix, when he spent most of the warm - up trying both his race car and the spare car to see which one he liked the most.

He retired on the spot, but when the race was stopped after two laps, he was able to rejoin on pole in the spare car (although he didn't end up making the chequered flag anyway).

In 1955 however, an actual F1 car did turn up to race - a Connaught - and it won.

Both ended up having to start the race from the spare cars (which were a thing back in those days).

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.»

It got to a point where some teams would roll up to a grand prix weekend with one of their drivers amassing something like a 65 - place grid penalty and starting the race in car parking zone Z.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

For car enthusiasts just about every owners club imaginable showed up; Ferrari, Aston Martin, BMW, Lamborghini... there's enough «car porn'there for a lifetime and the open paddocks also give you a chance to see the racing cars up close, with a lot of them being worked on before they head to the track.

There are few opportunities to snap up a classic F1 car, let alone one that was raced by Piquet and Schumacher.

If you were to draw a racing car from scratch and base it purely on its looks, you'd come up with just this design.»

The car was good enough to win a number of other races and Johnny Rutherford was runner - up in the USAC championship in 1974, 1975 and 1976.

California youngsters move up to the starting line in the world's smallest racing cars.

Wet weather, a mixed - up field and a late safety car set up an awesome two - lap run to the flag in the Formula 2 feature race

Oh no - that'd be the pop art style drawings of some of the cars he's raced on his way up to F1.

According to IndyCar the new bodywork generates a whopping 66 per cent of its downforce from underneath the car (19 percent up on the current cars) and following distances have been cut in half, which should lead to much closer racing and more passing opportunities.

There is about the Lancia a taut feeling of pent - up vitality not evident to the same extent in any other car except an outright racing job.

So, you definitely don't want to leave your car there when they're setting up for the F1 race...

Mercedes protégé Wehrlein moved up to F1 last year with Manor following several seasons in the DTM touring car series, becoming its youngest race winner in 2015.

With no other electric series currently around (pun absolutely intended) it can be quite difficult for drivers entering Formula E to get up to speed with the different techniques required to race an electric car.

Despite the damage, the team will not have to use a back - up car for Sunday's race.

Over 50 cars lined up in formation to start the race, but just a few seconds after the lights went out, Ezequiel Perez Companc's Lamborghini was pitched into a spin.

There'll also be a fully functioning F1 garage set up to give guests a closer look at how F1 teams prepare their cars and get set for race day.

He might have had a chance to get off the mark at his home race at Silverstone but his car suffered a hydraulic failure on the warm - up lap.

Scott Watson grinned and reflected on Clark's first taste of racing: «I had a DKW saloon car to race at Crimond, up north in Aberdeenshire, in 1956.

«I can't wait to win another race and jump up and down in victory lane on the back of my car.»

It was a dramatic race too, as Jack Brabham ended up pushing his car across the line to win his first world championship.

In the opening race of the season in Brazil, Irvine was involved in this nasty four - car pile - up whilst trying to defend from Jos Verstappen's Benetton.

Starting off with some fairly basic stuff about racing lines, he then goes into how it feels to drive the car as he ramps up the pace.

Unsurprisingly the safety car was deployed, but shortly afterwards it was decided that there was too much debris to clear up and the race was red - flagged, leaving the WRT Audi of Robin Frijns, Dries Vanthoor and Stuart Leonard as the victors.

Vettel was busy racing Bottas when the safety car came out to clear up the mess caused by the two Toro Rosso's coming together.

Getting up that close to racing cars being driven in anger has to be up there as one of the absolute coolest fan experiences ever, especially when those cars are close to LMP1 levels of speed.

There's been plenty this year too and this compilation video weighs in at a hefty 20 minutes long, including not just the big stuff like the colossal GT car pile - up and dramatic finish to the F3 race, but also all the stuff from the supporting touring car races.

Towards the end of the race, it started to come alive, with some clashes, (unsuccessful) overtaking attempts and a safety car bunching up the pack.

As it turned out, it ended up being one of the most spectacular ways to finish a race ever as his car came back down on its wheels and rolled across the line to finish eighth.

Speeds were way up — to 190 mph — but joy way down in the Daytona 500 stock - car run as steady Cale Yarborough raced to a narrow win

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.