Sentence examples for broken gearbox from inspiring English sources

But De Cesaris had himself run out of petrol and Daly had stopped with a broken gearbox.

The Brit was taken out at the first corner in Belgium by Romain Grosjean and a broken gearbox saw him retire in Singapore from the lead.

The car soon showed promise: Piquet ran third in the race on the high speed Circuit Île Notre-Dame before retiring with a broken gearbox.

Hamilton, for his part, drove a brilliant race until he dropped out with a broken gearbox — the fourth race in which he has failed to score points.

Helio Castroneves was boarding a flight out of Houston last week, eager to clear his head of the weekend's great disappointment: a broken gearbox scuttled what looked to be a clean shot at his first IndyCar Series championship.

When he wins a Grand Prix on his home turf he completes the last few laps with a broken gearbox, and he's in such agony afterwards that he can barely lift the trophy above his head.

On alternate days, the crews repaired flooded engines, battered hulls and broken gearboxes.

Lewis Hamilton was given a 55-place drop (plus five more for breaking a gearbox seal in parc ferme), most of which became entirely meaningless once he had already been relegated to the back.

"It was probably the hardest race of my whole life in terms of driving, because I had to improvise for every corner," Alonso told Spanish television, revealing that his gearbox had broken at the beginning of the race.

Lewis Hamilton lost the world championship lead when his gearbox broke and he was forced to retire, and his team-mate Jenson Button finished eighth.

Why the gears disappear by adulthood is not known, but the researchers suspect that it may be similar to a problem that every carmaker faces: if one tooth in the gearbox breaks the whole mechanism is impaired.