We didn't have the fastest car there, but we had it where we needed it to be.
We now have only the third fastest car and it's going to be very tough to win the title.
In 1986, Williams had the fastest car but ended up losing the world championship because Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet took points off each other.
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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You, dear reader, are looking at the fastest street car in the world.
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It had a top speed of 150 mph, which at the time made it the fastest production car in the world.
It's worth repeating: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is the fastest production car in the world--faster than an underwater torpedo or a bullet train.
Just a couple of years ago India was one of the fastest growing car markets in the world, seeing annual sales increase by as much as 30%.
With 12% growth in unit sales during the first quarter of 2008, Kia stands as the world's fastest-growing car company.
Then there was the fastest rate of car sales since 2008 coupled with the strongest level of existing home sales since 2010, it said in the blog post.
The plan gives China's biggest domestic carmaker a foothold in the second-fastest-growing car market in the world (after China itself), and helps cash-strapped GM mount a more vigorous push into India, where it has struggled for years to reach its target of 10% market share.
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Now Ferrari is putting a hybrid system in its fastest, most exclusive sports car.
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For the second day running, Sebastien Buemi was fastest in Toro Rosso's 2008 car with a best lap of 1:17.591 at Jerez.
Although he won the Belgian Grand Prix, Raikkonen's final season with Ferrari was a disappointment, with a car that was never the fastest in the field.
Traffic was also an issue for Sebastian Vettel, the German finishing only 16th fastest and being fortunate not to damage his car after running wide and throwing up clouds of dust at Turn 11.
They would appreciate the 21st century car that claims the title as the fastest Bentley ever.
This is the fastest speed ever achieved by a production-based hybrid car on the famed Bonneville Salt Flats.
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The German waved his arm angrily at the offending car but had to settle for setting the fourth fastest time of the session.
It's the fastest, most expensive, most powerful series-production road car ever built and, believe me, if the VW guys wanted to turn up the wick, we could see a 300-mph Veyron.
"China's very important, it's the biggest car market in the world and it's our fastest growing market, " Mr Edwards continued.
Within two hours of the start of his test, he had surpassed by 0.6secs the fastest time set by Renault number two Vitaly Petrov in two days in the car on Thursday and Friday.
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The device reduces the car's drag on the straights, allowing them either to have fastest straight-line speed for the same cornering pace, or to run more downforce in the corners without a penalty down the straights.
Their car ran for the first time only in March but quickly emerged as the fastest in F1.
"We were second fastest which was good, and we've managed to improve the setup on my car over the last few races so I've been pretty happy with it, " said Raikkonen.
Hamilton was fastest in the morning in the wet and completed 113 laps as he fine tunes his new car ahead of the opening race.
Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen finished fourth fastest and the Finn revealed he was delighted to get to grips with the team's new car.
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