"He's certainly having fun, " she says, as her husband, who's never driven anything faster than the family car before this, fishtails out of a curve and accelerates down the backstretch.
Rubens Barrichello did that job for Michael Schumacher when he was at Ferrari and the only reason he stayed there was because the number two Ferrari was faster than any other car on the grid.
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.
If an ERP system can help the people at Lotus make a race car go faster, maybe it can help you pull ahead of the competition to help your team win, too.
In addition back markers in a race must allow a faster car to pass at the first available opportunity.
Ford and other auto companies wanted to be able to prove that their infotainment systems could keep up with the consumer-electronics industry and a pace of product introduction and obsolescence that is many times faster than the glacial pace in the car business.
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When this happens, his various team-mates usually manage to go faster and it is probably not a coincidence that Button was clearly faster than Barrichello this year when the car was at its best, but the positions were reversed when its competitiveness dropped off.
Brawn shocked F1 by turning up at the final pre-season test in 2009 with a car that was nearly a second faster than anything else after a battle to survive following the withdrawal of former owner Honda.
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Alonso lost out on pole to Sebastian Vettel at Hockenheim by a scant two-thousandths of a second and the car was, if anything, slightly faster than the Red Bull in the race.
For another, the Brawn appears particularly strong on slow corners, where the benefits of a diffuser - which creates downforce by accelerating the airflow under the car and effectively sucking it to the road - would not be as great as on faster corners.
Chrysler has grown faster in the U.S. than any major car company.
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While dirt would seem to be a slippery surface compared to pavement, a sprint car bites into the dirt and can accelerate faster than almost any other vehicle: 0 to 95kph in about 3 seconds.
Though relative novices behind the wheel, young drivers generally have better car control and faster reactions than their older counterparts.
Door-to-door, a flight of 500 miles or less (the majority of American flights) is no faster than driving a car.
That is because cars depreciate faster than the loan balance, resulting in the collateral value of the car being less than the outstanding balance.
While total sales of passenger cars in China increased by 8.6 percent during the first seven months of this year, luxury car sales increased even faster at a 36.1 percent rate, and sales of large SUVs increased by 23.2 percent.
After turning off the jet and rocket he will deploy an air brake at 800mph, parachutes at 600mph and finally put his foot on a car-type friction brake at 250mph any faster and the brakes could explode.
Schumacher was punished for stopping his car near the end of the session to prevent Renault's Alonso from setting a faster time.
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In addition, the driverless car would reduce wasted commute time and energy by relieving congestion and allowing cars to go faster, operate closer together and choose more effective routes.
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Driving your car to a park-and-ride station and taking the train downtown is now cheaper and perhaps faster than the average trip on the congested highway.
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