Sentences with phrase «which team your driver»

Picking which team your driver would race for each season was an interesting idea, but I ultimately didn't care which team I was driving for, or who my teammate was on the track.

Not exact matches

Last month, Uber's local marketing team in Lyon, France ran a promotion for a partnership with French website Avions de Chasse, in which Uber users could book cars with attractive female drivers.

The end result, investors say, is that the national team is unwittingly encouraging short - term trading patterns that amplify the detachment of stock markets, which have become less responsive to fundamental drivers such as earnings trends, domestic economic data and shifts in global markets.

Today Solium announced that it's acquiring the tech and whole team of Advanced - HR, which will continue to sell its Option Driver software - as - a-service.

On the digital insurance side, Swiss Re has partnered with US - based Coalition, an MGA startup that provides up to $ 10M in cyber liability coverage, as well as App in the Air (which teamed up with Swiss Re and Chubb on a real - time flight delay insurance) and Cuvva (which partnered with Swiss Re to offer pay - as - you - go car insurance to drivers in the UK.

It was then that a number of software engineers and safety drivers from the Pittsburgh arm of the ATG were sent to California to help the San Francisco team, which had problems performing certain critical tasks, according to sources.

As Gasly points out, they create an environment in which on - track talent outweighs a heavy wallet, but these schemes also lead to a monopoly on said talent, where drivers may later find that they are essentially owned by the teams that gave them a chance.

But just because Sirotkin is bringing the big bucks to the team (which was clearly a factor) it doesn't mean that he's not a talented driver.

Or will it take the long - term option of creating rules which encourage a few more teams (and therefore drivers) to take part so that «more entertainment» is met through tougher competition?

A multi-year deal which brings financial benefit to the team, and with a driver who Williams seems genuinely impressed with?

Called the «power rankings `, a team of experts aims to rank the top - 10 drivers from each weekend based purely on individual performance, regardless of which car they're in.

But one area in which the team is flourishing is clearly their management of drivers, a factor that isn't to be scoffed at considering how often divisions and rifts within Formula 1 teams can spell difficulties and even jeopardy on - track.

It's worth noting the top two teams of 2007 had pretty young drivers, which helped lower the average ages of the podiums.

A reshuffling over the offseason was supposed to curb the underachieving teams and help rejuvenate JGR, which also expanded and added Carl Edwards to a driver lineup including Hamlin, Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth.

Over the years we've heard some brilliantly angry team radio messages, but can you guess which drivers said them?

Huggins is obviously one reason WVU has thrived post-departure, but I absolutely think regional appropriateness is the biggest driver of which teams have done ok.

Turkish giants Fenerbahce have called for the Super Lig to suspend their upcoming fixtures after their team bus was attacked by gunmen which has left the bus driver hospitalised with suspected bullet wounds, the BBC report.

Owner - drivers can expect reliability, lower maintenance cost and minimal mechanic and tech teams - which means more time and elation on the track.»

With Formula E providing a place for manufacturers to develop electric power Christian Horner reckons that F1 should stop chasing future engine technologies and go back to a formula which puts emphasis back on the drivers and teams.

A Friday dedicated to dreary practice sessions which mean everyone is over-prepared for the race, or a Friday where you can go to the track for free, interact more with the teams and drivers and watch a Procar race, followed by a less predictable Grand Prix weekend?

It's motorsport awards season, which means it's time to recognise the achievements of teams and drivers throughout 2017.

That means that drivers who take a penalty for a race earlier in the weekend will potentially benefit, which should make it interesting when all the Renault - and Honda - powered teams race to announce their penalties before each other on a Thursday morning...

For the Spanish Grand Prix new rules were introduced which forced teams to display car numbers and driver names much more prominently so that fans can identify drivers much more easily.

Although she was development driver for Lotus in 2015, Jorda has only driven an F1 car in the team simulator, which makes you wonder what experience she seems to be speaking from.

Exactly which team Sainz has his eye on is unknown, although Renault must be a strong favourite - even though pretty much every free driver on the grid is linked to them!

It's the latest in a catalogue of car problems for the team in Bahrain which also saw multiple failures across the race weekend for both drivers.

It's well known that Williams title sponsor Martini want someone over the age of 25 in the car, which rules out the team putting a young driver alongside teenager Stroll.

«One of our aims, which we are looking at with the FIA and the teams is that, for 2021, we want to have cars that allow drivers to really fight one another on track.

Speaking of the driver who was demoted from Red Bull to Toro Rosso, Wright asked Twitter and Facebook which other team they wanted to see with a branded X-Wing livery.

Bruce McLaren was an accomplished racing driver before setting up his own team, which has since evolved into one of Formula 1's most successful outfits.

It would involve all the drivers and teams, and could be brought in ahead of the 2018 season — giving fans a much closer look at car launches, which are usually restricted to media at the moment.

The only potential stumbling block is that Toyota has said that it doesn't want to run three cars at Le Mans next year, which would mean that Alonso would have to replace one of the team's regular drivers.

Scheckter was meant to be the number one driver but a number of good results early in the year for Villeneuve led the team to question which driver it should be backing.

This will all be done alongside full campaigns in junior categories, in which each driver will seek to justify their positions with these F1 teams.

Drivers and teams disliked the new slow and twisty section (which resulted in race laps of over two minutes), which had the opposite effect to what was intended and actually seemed to reduce overtaking.

Team Max defeated Team Massel head to head which means they are in the driver's seat for the # 2 seed.

Although Williams finished third in the championship that year, it wasn't until the ninth round in Austria that the team actually got a podium, which of course came the day after Massa became the only non-Mercedes driver to take a pole position that year.

There are many things about the start of a new season to look forward to - learning the pecking order of the teams, seeing which drivers are on form, and simply getting to enjoy the racing again.

He was one of just a few drivers to stay out on slicks in the rain - which for Rubens Barrichello was a race - winning strategy - but he lost any hope of points for the team when he spun off and out of the race.

It was introduced for the 2011 season but it's been kept in the series to cut costs, which is a good thing for teams and drivers.

Thanks to his Peugeot connection he became a test driver for McLaren which resulted in a one - off drive for the team in Hungary, and after one more drive for Larrousse that year his F1 career came to an end.

The Monegasque driver was leading the race when his Prema team gambled on a late pitstop with eight laps to go, which is almost unheard of in F2 (formerly GP2) sprint races.

Ricciardo put a lovely move on Bottas early on which lasted for four corners, Stoffel Vandoorne (who finished a brilliant seventh) had a good battle with the Williams drivers after emerging from his pit stop and Fernando Alonso had an entertaining scrap with Kevin Magnussen, leading to an amusing bit of team radio.

The beauty of Saturday's win were three excellent team goals which, to me, are more satisfying than the spectacular pile - drivers that routinely make the goal of the season running.

Sauber drivers Pascal Wehrlein and Marcus Ericsson expressed their surprise at the sudden departure of team principal Monisha Kaltenborn, which was announced yesterday

As has been the case all season long, very few messages were broadcast compared to the amount of discussion which was going on between the drivers and teams, even given the new team radio restrictions.

But if you've got an idea for an engine change penalty which both leaves the driver unaffected and deters teams from using one engine per race, I'm all ears!

Force India have accused rivals of breaking Formula 1's rules after some teams dried the grid slots on which their drivers started the Malaysian GP.

An FIA statement said: «The stewards heard from Marcus Ericsson, the driver of car # 9 and the team representative and reviewed the video evidence which clearly showed that the driver attempted to set a meaningful lap time after passing through a double waved yellow marshalling sector, contrary to the requirements set out in the race director's event notes (10.1) in breach of article 12.1.1 i.»

Which drivers and teams will you be supporting in 2017?