Her passenger had a blanket over her lap and, on her feet, a pair of golden shoes that, glinting in the sunlight, looked as though they were encrusted with coins.
"It would be amazing to end the season winning the first victory for Toyota, " said the Italian, renowned for his pace over a single lap.
Most recently, in Abu Dhabi, he was put to the test in a competitive environment which included providing him with an opportunity to demonstrate his outright pace and consistency over a single lap.
The Woodhall Spa rider finished ahead of Bruce Anstey in the first race although it ended amid confusion with the officials failing to wave the chequered flag which led to Plater and Anstey continuing to ride hard for over half-a-lap before realising that the race was over.
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Allowing significant sharing between the navy program and the commercial world would give us an immediate, multi-lap advantage over all other competitors in a world wide market for commercial shipping using nuclear instead of diesel.
The following year, Ryan qualified fifth fastest and was next to Steve Plater on the grid, posting a lap at over 121mph, but the bike was plagued with electrical problems and two blown engines on raceday made it a miserable weekend.
But this time the dispute was over sales tax and whether lap dances are exempt.
Home hero Fernando Alonso in his Renault claimed fifth while Brazilian Felipe Massa was sixth in his Ferrari, despite running out of fuel on the final lap and coasting over the line.
Being able to lap flat out, and being forced to because of the fight with the Red Bulls, McLaren were giving fuel consumption warnings to their drivers as early as the 30th lap - just over half distance.
The Spaniard traded fastest lap times with team-mate Sebastien Buemi in a quiet opening half hour and improved his lap time by over six seconds, but he still finished the session in 20th position, one place behind his team-mate.
The main problem appears to be bad posture when using the laptop on your, uh, lap -- hunching over in this way apparently causes chronic back problems in all sorts of people.
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Whichever side of the debate is correct, the era of expansion for British lap dancing appears to be over.
Gibernau had been seeking revenge over the world champion for the last-lap incident which cost him a win at Jerez.
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Anytime he's pulled over, he pours a little out onto his lap, and then tells the approaching officer he's been trying to rush home ahead of a bladder emergency.
The Englishman had built up a 6.8-second lead over Kubica when the safety car was deployed on lap 17 so that marshals could remove the stranded Force India of Adrian Sutil.
The second Audi, piloted by Capello Scot McNish and seven-time winner Kristensen, led for over 16 hours, with McNish setting a new lap record of three minutes, 27.204 seconds on the 8.45-mile circuit along the way.
He will go into the final race before his home fans in Valencia with a 43-point advantage over compatriot Pedrosa, who was philosophic after his first lap mistake.
The Austrian's lap of one minite 18.123 was just over a second slower than De la Rosa's pace-setting1:17.057.
BBC: Pedro de la Rosa in the McLaren MP4-19B at Jerez in Spain
Franchitti had an 11-second advantage over Tracy but when the green flag was waved again on lap 96, the gap had disappeared.
You know, I've heard him say frequently over the past 70 days that the decisions that land in his lap or the decisions that are put on his desk to make are the hard ones.
They had the exchange down to just over a minute, which they determined would keep the car on the lead lap if the exchange was made under a caution.
The Boeing 737-300 in question was only 15 years old when its skin peeled open along a riveted lap-joint while flying above 34, 000 feet (just over 10, 000 metres) with 118 passengers on board.
The ergonomically designed counter-weighted stand allows users to adjust the incline and height of the Cintiq for multiple working postures, even allowing the display to extend over the edge of the desk and float just above a user's lap.
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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Over there would be the permanent village, with two five-hundred-man mess halls, a lap pool, a running track, a driving range.
On top of that, Michael Schumacher had damaged his car in a first-lap accident with Jarno Trulli and it was a good opportunity for Coulthard to extend his lead over the German.
Sarazen's single hole victory over Percy Alliss came courtesy of a birdie two at the 15th, where his tee shot landed in the lap of a woman spectator and bounced back onto the green as she stood up to shake it off.
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