So start your team engines.
It's a fascinating piece of equipment, but it is completely inanimate on static display," said White at the team's engine factory in Viry-Châtillon Viry-Châtillon.
It was also the first victory for BMW, the team's engine manufacturer, which returned to the sport last year after racing from 1982 to 1987.
Vincent Glud of Livonia, Mich., a senior majoring in physics and the team's engine project leader, said he recently spent 12 hours at a milling machine and missed the last bus between the university's north and central campuses.
Yet in the words of Rob White, the director of the Renault team's engine department, it is the thing that turns the sleek, inanimate racing car into a vital force.
He lost control, and the team and engine crashed though a brick wall at the end of the street over a railyard -- now the site of the Trump Place residential development.
Firefighter Smagala's first child is due on Jan . 11 four months to the day he died at the World Trade Center as part of the team from Engine Company 226 in Brooklyn.
"We knew we had to go off hard to counter the Australians in the first 1,000m," said Sbihi, a 6ft 6in gentle giant who is the team's engine, "and they kept challenging, kept challenging, kept challenging, but we kept answering".
Actor Andy García gave the traditional command, "Gentlemen Start Your Engines!" Before the race, Denny Hamlin moved to the back of the starting grid because his team changed engines after his qualifying run.
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