chicane
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Leclerc cut a chicane on the first lap to take the lead from Hamilton, who then lost second place to Max Verstappen as a consequence of his team-mate's attack.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
In the 2005 Japanese Grand Prix, he passed Christian Klien's Red Bull by cutting the chicane, let him by again on the straight and then passed him into Turn One.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
He was arguably too aggressive with Lewis Hamilton at the first chicane on the first lap, forcing his team-mate into the gravel and dropping him to 10th, and crashed out a lap later.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Shortly afterwards, a virtual safety car was called when Lance Stroll's Aston Martin broke down at the first chicane and Antonelli's side of the garage decided to risk a stop for fresh tyres.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
The bar of Greece and Rome you point me out, A bar that trained great men, I do not doubt, For then chicane with language void of sense Had not deformed the law and eloquence.
From Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series by James Williams
Carole Lombard, a $20,000,000 American in Cuba, is sorry Dancer George Raft was chicaned by a counterfeit lottery ticket bearing the same number as her genuine winning ticket.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had heard enough to tell me I had been chicaned.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
He had tried his best to get rid of them, advanced the rent, implored, chicaned, but all in vain.
From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II by Jules Lermina
All saw, and too clearly, that we had been chicaned; and that the wretched curs who had “sold” us, were as completely beyond our reach, as if twenty miles lay between us and them!
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
Chmielnicki, now doubly hateful to the Poles as being both a royalist and a Cossack, was again maltreated and chicaned, and only escaped from gaol by bribing his gaolers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
A Judge that goes upon chicaning is to be punished more severely than a highway Robber.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle
Whereby come Dissident ejected Priests; unconquerable Martyrs according to some, incurable chicaning Traitors according to others.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
But the poor girl had no thought of so chicaning away life; her mind was fixed on far other subjects.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy or the path of little chicaning bargain-making.
From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Asa Don Dickinson
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