Sentence examples for grid slots from inspiring English sources

Qualifying for 11-22 grid slots was rained out on Sunday; Wilson and the other drivers will try again this Saturday.

Amid concerns that drivers starting from even-numbered grid slots would suffer from a lack of grip as they were located off the racing line, Ferrari deliberately broke the seal on Felipe Massa's gearbox, thereby giving him a five-place grid penalty and promoting Alonso to seventh and the clean side of the grid.

The front two grid slots at the Monaco Grand Prix that year, which were painted with Brazilian and Austrian flags, were left clear in memory of the two drivers who had lost their lives, while both Williams and Simtek entered only one car each.

The championship leader said he was compromised throughout by his low grid slot.

It still owns the prized F1 grid slot and if it can make it to the start of next season it will be entitled to an estimated £34m of prize money.

That fell on Paul Di Resta as he failed to make it into Q2, leaving the Scot to start from 17th, equalling the worst grid slot of his career going back to the Belgian GP of 2011.

Thirty minutes before the start, I climb into the car and drive round to the grid to take up my starting grid slot.

The Spaniard had fought through superbly from 16th on the grid, making a series of skilled overtaking manoeuvres, but was delayed by a five-second stop-go for having only half his car in his grid slot at the start.

Montoya stalled his Williams on the dummy grid, Fisichella went into the wrong grid slot then the mother of all downpours soaked the track on lap 2. Everybody driver and team was in a panic to stay on track.

The Lotus drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean were fifth and sixth, while Michael Schumacher, whose Mercedes faded from its third-place grid slot, passed Hamilton in the closing laps to take seventh.

Lorenzo's Yamaha team-mate Ben Spies continued his fine form from the practice sessions to claim the fourth grid slot, but it was another qualifying session to forgot for seven-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi as he could only guide his Ducati to eighth following a heavy crash.