pace car
noun
: an automobile that leads the field of competitors through a pace lap but does not participate in the race
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One of the funny little details in Eliud Kipchoge’s attempts to run a sub-two-hour-marathon was the electric pace cars.
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Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
Notably, Muniz was the pace car driver for the 2001 Daytona 500, where racer Dale Earnhardt lost his life.
—Lawrence Goss, The Tennessean, 28 June 2024
The pace car driver has been a coveted job among athletes, actors and other celebrities since the 1970s, when actor James Garner and singer Marty Robbins handled it.
—Dave Skretta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
This picture shows Oldfield in the Indy pace car in 1922.
—Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 27 May 2016
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Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
Notably, Muniz was the pace car driver for the 2001 Daytona 500, where racer Dale Earnhardt lost his life.
—Lawrence Goss, The Tennessean, 28 June 2024
The pace car driver has been a coveted job among athletes, actors and other celebrities since the 1970s, when actor James Garner and singer Marty Robbins handled it.
—Dave Skretta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
This picture shows Oldfield in the Indy pace car in 1922.
—Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 27 May 2016
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“Pace car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pace%20car. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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