She remembered riding behind her Lululemon-Specialized team car when the car entered a roundabout.
Menchov was still sliding along the wet surface as his mechanic jumped out of the team car and took another bike from the roof.
Assured of victory, Landis hoisted a champagne glass handed to him from the Phonak team car early along the 96-mile route from Sceaux-Antony to the capital.
The stage was marred by a crash near the finish which resulted in three spectators being taken to hospital after being hit by a team car.
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Based in Enstone, England, the highly skilled Lotus team designs, builds, maintains, tests, and races the Lotus Formula One Team car, which can travel from zero to 60 miles per hour in 1.6 seconds.
Ferrari will launch their 2007 team and car on Sunday, though the car itself may not be ready in time.
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Da Matta had to abort his final lap to prevent him crashing into the prone Team Target car of Junqueira.
He has various options, including the second seat at Renault, but that would mean pairing up with Robert Kubica again, and the Pole would have one more year's knowledge of the team and car.
He did, though, deny claims that Dallara had ended its contract with the team and sold the car to F1 hopefuls Stefan Grand Prix, a team set up by Serbian businessman Zoran Stefanovich who do not have an entry for 2010.
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But in practical terms how does a team make its car go faster?
Darshni Pillay, operations manager for the University of Calgary Solar Car Team, disagreed about the advantage provided by the gallium cells.
If they did, they might be happier letting this management team drive the car, instead of constantly complaining from the back seat.
Mr Warner sponsored a stock-car team, thus linking his name with a sport that a quarter of Americans adore but which the coastal elite mostly ignore.
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Luke Martz, director of fundraising for Iowa State University's PrISUm Solar Car Team, said he thought the difference between the types of cells teams used had a major impact on the race.
The UK Rescue Challenge was held in London last year, where the Royal Berkshire Rescue Team won the car rescue title - with the hosts winning the urban search and rescue challenge.
Group Lotus - part of Malaysia's Proton car company - is sponsoring the Renault team this season and the Russian sports car manufacturer Marussia has bought into Virgin.
"We always kept believing in the team, and the car, and I kept believing in myself, " the German told BBC Sport.
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Evans owned a car racing team and traveled around the country in a private jet according to the Seattle Times.
Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen finished fourth fastest and the Finn revealed he was delighted to get to grips with the team's new car.
Sebastian Vettel, who put the first miles on the new Renault-powered RB9 later in the day, unveiled the car alongside team-mate Mark Webber.
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Hamilton won last year's title by a single point from Brazilian Ferrari driver Felipe Massa, who has already had a day testing his team's new car.
One insider at a top team told BBC Sport that while it was hard to be definitive about comparative pace because of the differences to lap times created by fuel loads and tyres, Ferrari appeared to have a slight advantage over Red Bull at the moment as the team with the fastest car.
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Herta will drive the car for several laps as well as taking passengers out in the team's two-seater car.
Which was to ignore the previous eight seasons when he'd been prevented from success by the car disadvantage - and that he was blitzing team-mate Rubens Barrichello in the same car.
Instead, the team failed to get either car into the top-10 qualifying shoot-out for the first time this year.
The team will assess the new car's performance at the second winter test, which begins in Jerez on Thursday.
Scotsman Di Resta and German Adrian Sutil helped take the wraps off the new car at the team's Silverstone base.
His diverse portfolio now ranges from a Formula 1 racing team and a British sports car maker to a mobile phone provider.
Every aspect of the network is duplicated to make sure there is always a path of communication between driver, car and the team.
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