The phrase "ahead position" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts discussing strategy or placement, but it is better to clarify the intended meaning.
Example: "In order to win the race, we need to secure an ahead position early on."
Alternatives: "leading position" or "front position".
Speed riders break quickly from the gate and try to stay ahead; position riders are adept at saving ground and finding holes in the pack; closers ride best from behind.
Eye fixation was always maintained in the straight ahead position within an electronic window of 5° amplitude.
They were asked to fixate on the "x" target in the straight ahead position with or without the prism correction, i.e. in VO or VH, respectively.
Since the animal was anesthetized, straight ahead position was estimated by the Hirschberg corneal reflex test, which has an approximate accuracy of five degrees horizontally and vertically.
Every 20 ms, about 30 measures with which to capture driving behavior were registered (e.g. driving speed, distance to driver ahead, position in the course, position of break, accelerator, gear, revolutions per minute, lateral distance from road mid-line etc).
Maybe more supple sidewalls in the tyres would create a compromise, but the MPS engineer, Shinichi Inata, wants to keep the new car's very positive steering feel around the straight-ahead position.
Turn the wheel from the straight-ahead position and the effort becomes noticeably, and unpredictably, lighter.
Just as the steering was turned off-center there was some additional resistance — as if it were suddenly trying to return to the straight-ahead position.
One of those, the president of the New York Road Runners, Mary Wittenberg, tried to justify the go-ahead position gamely, but ultimately lamely.
Actually, despite that "quickness" the steering is the least pleasing aspect of both Coupés; it is electrically powered with the sense of artificiality, tactile detachment and rubberiness around the straight-ahead position all too common in such systems.
It doesn't settle down on the motorway, with constant adjustments required around the straight-ahead position to keep it in trim, and the messages you get through the wheel in corners are vague at best and late in coming.
