overtake

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But if it is to make a difference and enable drivers to at least get into a position to try an overtake, this is likely to be in combination with an offset in tyre degradation.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

No-one knows how overtake mode will affect racing in Monaco until Sunday afternoon.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

“Are we going to overtake ServiceNow day one? No,” Bhusri said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

But, thus far, that has not been enough for Steyer to overtake Becerra.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Steam did not overtake water and wind as a source of power until after 1830; in Swift’s Laputa, as in eighteenth-century England, steam power did not replace water power but supplemented it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton