Sentence examples for a previous lap from inspiring English sources

The actual cause of the accident was a failure of the nose wing structure, probably weakened by Ratzenberger clouting a kerb on a previous lap.

In both team events, the teams start on opposing sides of the track and, in case of a tie, the team with the fastest time over the last lap (or a previous lap if the last lap time is the same) will be declared the winner.

Massa had made a mistake the previous lap on the exit to Turn 1, enabling the persistent Hamilton to get a run on him through Turn 3 and down the main straight, where the DRS wing helped him to get closer still.

Lorenzo, 26, took half a second off the previous lap record in his first lap of the final session, only for Marquez to immediately better it.

I was thinking it would be almost impossible to regain that, but on the previous lap there were a couple of corners I'd messed up so I fixed those and the rest of the lap just got better and better".

Stewart has said that he did not see Ward on the track until just before Stewart ran over him after Ward had scrambled out of his car, upset about an incident with Stewart on the previous lap.

The two had had a close call at Les Combes on the previous lap - as well as banging wheels at the starts of the race - before the controversial incident at the start of the next lap.

The safety car was also deployed on lap 50, due to debris from a crash involving Christijan Albers on the previous lap, and on lap 55 due to Vitantonio Liuzzi crashing into the wall of champions once again.

In fact, when a race is halted prematurely, the final classification is taken from the previous lap completed by all contestants, which meant that it was the order from Lap 31 that counted.

The other driver, Kevin Ward Jr., had collided with Stewart on the previous lap, leaving Ward's car with a flat tire and pushed into the wall.

Ratzenberger, in his first season as a Formula One driver, had run over a kerb at the Acque Minerali chicane on his previous lap, the impact of which is believed to have damaged his front wing.