Sentence examples for closed cockpit from inspiring English sources

What goes on behind those tightly closed cockpit doors?

The MP4-X doesn't look quite like a F1 car as we know it, with its closed cockpit and wheelarches.

And I preferred the tactile sensations of its open roof, rear drive and manual transmission to the Bugatti's closed cockpit, all-wheel-drive and dual-clutch automatic.

The closed cockpit, which became mandatory, helps prevent drowning in blow-over accidents (the type that killed Muncey), in which too much air under the front of the boat causes it to tip over backward.

Tom Burkland, who piloted a car to 417 m.p.h. on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2004, is the technical inspector for all closed cockpit vehicles for the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme and for the BUB speed trials.

Hanauer, a pioneer, drove the first turbine-powered boat, which broke the one-lap record by 7 mph (11 km/hr) at 140.8 mph (226 km/hr) in 1984; he introduced the closed cockpit a year later.

Nonetheless, the concept of closed cockpits is unlikely to go away, especially in the wake of Wheldon's death.

The introduction of closed cockpits will be on the agenda following Sunday's first-corner accident, which took out Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Sergio Pérez and Romain Grosjean, the driver blamed and punished for the pile-up.

The series has lately tried to emphasise its risky side, and in 2010 introduced a campaign called "Boys, have at it" to encourage drivers to get aggressive with each other on the track.The next debate over safety will come in Formula One, which is considering introducing closed cockpits to protect drivers.

While medical chiefs in Las Vegas and IndyCar officials have announced that they are to work together to review and examine what lessons can be learned from the crash that killed Dan Wheldon last weekend, Formula One is already a considerable distance down the road to adopting closed cockpits in a bid to improve driver safety in cars.

A fact observed by the Australian driver Ryan Briscoe, who was competing in Las Vegas but not involved in the crash and posted on Twitter: "I'd like to see future IndyCar/Open wheelers with closed cockpits one day, like modern Le Mans LMP1 cars have today".