Sentence examples for speedway from inspiring English sources

That made the speedway twice as populous as the city itself.

God it's loud.Outside the speedway, Fred Coener at the Race fans for McCain table tells me that NASCAR has always been political.

But now there are hopes that Newton's new speedway, complete with a 25,000-seat grandstand and due to open in September, will attract big-ticket motor racing under the aegis of the Indy Racing League.On the same day that the League was expressing an interest in Newton, Tate & Lyle announced plans to build a $260m refinery in Fort Dodge.

Of the 17 teams competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), a first-of-its-kind event held at a speedway track near Miami in December 2013, only two others got their robots this high up the ladder.

All the robots at the DRC were being "tele-operated"; their near-term goals were set and monitored by operators in the garages that line the speedway track's pit lane.

Both speedway racing and Grand Prix racing, which is done on closed highways or other courses partly simulating road conditions, began in 1906.

The Formula One is generally smaller than the car used in speedway racing and is more maneuverable.

The track was first paved with crushed rock and tar but was soon repaved with brick; hence, the speedway is often called the "Brickyard".

The first speedway purpose-built for automobile racing was constructed in 1906 at Brooklands, near Weybridge, Surrey, England.

It includes Grand Prix racing, speedway racing, stock-car racing, sports-car racing, drag racing, midget-car racing, and karting, as well as hill climbs and trials (see hill climb; see also rally driving; gymkhana).

The speedway is also home to a 400-mile (644-km) stock-car race each August.