But the fun -- make that, the joy -- is in punching the throttle in second or third on a wide-open straightaway, feeling the G-force suck at your gut, and listening to the engine sound morph from tough-guy rumble to Valkyrie howl.
PHOTOS Artss & culture by The Times The invaluable Kathy Baker leads things off as Sadie, a middle-aged Los Angeles wife who opens up straightaway to the audience about the state of her marriage.
you can get a taste of the real thing in a six-minute tour, the thrill of calibrating a hairpin turn precisely, of opening it up on the straightaway, of deftly slipping inside a rival driver's kart — a 9-year-old driver, but still — and moving up one position toward the leaders.
At the great straightaway, I opened it up.
He raced like a demon, using every square inch of the pavement, and opening up the throttle as far as it would go as soon as he had a couple of feet of straightaway to work with.
In his notably unfavourable assessment of the Dark Horse album, for the NME, Bob Woffinden wrote: "The opening track, 'Hari's On Tour (Express)', is an instrumental, an unevenly paced boogie thing that has George blowing most of his licks straightaway and Tom Scott coming on with a few quasi-Jnr.
So I relished the chance to get reacquainted with its chain of mogul-like dips at the top, and its mid-trail straightaway interludes that open into three big, steep, swooping bends at the bottom.
Jimmy Rollins opened the game with a deep shot to straightaway center field for a ground-rule double.
Under a low-power microscope or magnifying glass he opened the egg membranes, took a first look inside and preserved the embryo straightaway.
Whether hurrying through the handsome new straightaway that has replaced the maze of switchback ramps along the A and C lines or standing on the widened, ornamented and newly opened southbound platform on the R line, the traveling public has begun to occupy completed portions of the sprawling complex.
