The phrase "artificial track" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to sports, transportation, or technology, referring to a track that is not natural or is man-made.
Example: "The athletes trained rigorously on the artificial track to prepare for the upcoming competition."
Alternatives: "synthetic track" or "man-made track".
What has become clear is that a lot of us horseplayers can't keep it straight as to which artificial track favors what kind of closer.
After his team had taken the risky decision to call him in for an early tyre change on the 15th of the 55 laps, he found himself spending the last two-thirds of the race behind the Renault of Vitaly Petrov, prevented by the nature of a featureless artificial track from making a successful overtaking manoeuvre.
A straight laser beam that sequentially traverses consecutive layers of microstrips can be used as an artificial track to align them.
It was built as a temporary, artificial track with the curves being constructed in snow and then frozen hard to ice.
Walk or run on softer surfaces (artificial track or sand, for example) instead of concrete.
The safety benefits have not yet been conclusively demonstrated, but what is certainly known is that horses tend to perform differently on artificial tracks than they do on dirt.
Adam Du Breteau (3.10) put up a career-best performance to win at Fontwell last time and can follow up today, while at Southwell, the remarkable Stand Guard will attempt to win his 28th race on the all-weather and take sole ownership of the all-time record for successes on the artificial tracks.
That means there is no blueprint to prepare horses like Big Brown, the Kentucky Derby winner, who have never raced on the artificial tracks, but Dutrow and Iavarone have said that a prep race on the grass may be the way to go.
This principle can be used to generate artificial tracks of known characteristics, by randomly selecting consecutive azimuth and speed values from distributions of controlled characteristics [17], [24], [25].
A recent attempt to assess SSM accuracy was made using artificial tracks, and reported mean absolute errors to be at best one to two times larger than what we recorded in this study [17].
Following automated tracking, artificial tracks were removed manually from the data set.
