Sentences with phrase «week in sports car racing»

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So we made it to Daytona Beach in the Camaro ZL1, if not quite to Daytona International Speedway, where — since the Daytona 500 is a restrictor - plate race — we would have arrived with more horsepower than any car NASCAR had at the track this weekend, and for that matter, at least as much horsepower as any entry in the Rolex 24 at Daytona sports - car endurance race a few weeks ago.

Olly has been at the historic Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course since the beginning of the week as the Corvette Racing team has been testing here at the 2.25 mile track, which sits between the cities of Colombus and Cleveland in Ohio.

DETROIT (Aug. 3, 2016)-- Less than two weeks after adding another chapter to its already impressive record book, Corvette Racing rolls into familiar territory in pursuit of strengthening its GT Le Mans (GTLM) championship lead and resume as sports car racing's premier GTRacing rolls into familiar territory in pursuit of strengthening its GT Le Mans (GTLM) championship lead and resume as sports car racing's premier GTracing's premier GT team.

Whenever the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship goes to Detroit, as it will again this week for Saturday's Chevrolet Sports Car Classic, the importance of the race to competing manufacturers in the Motor City dominates the conversation.

F3 Americas Series Debuting just two weeks ago at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas is the new F3 race car, which is powered by a 240 -270-horsepower (pending SCCA sporting regulations) HPD version of the new Civic Type R turbocharged K20C1 motor (a non-turbocharged version is used in the F4 U.S. Championship), and features an all - new, state - of - the - art, U.S. - designed - and - built Ligier Crawford chassis.

No stranger to the SEMA Show, Jay Leno was in good company, as more than 100 celebrated sports figures, race - car drivers, custom - car builders and TV personalities were active at the Show, making the SEMA Show a version of «celebrity central» for the week.

This week, Marc Miller reflects on his time racing in the IMSA Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series, what Continental Tire Challenge has done for his career, and fills us in on some of the memorable cars he's been able to drive over the years.

We're not sure what that has to do with this crash other than it seems similar to last week's news reports of two middle easterners racing exotic sports cars in Beverly Hills.

To that end, Michelin sports car race engineers are busy this week both here in the TUDOR Championship at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and at the FIA World Endurance Championship race in Spa, Belgium.