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pace car

an official starter's car that leads the competing race cars around the track for one lap (pace lap) before moving off the track

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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