How to Use pace car in a Sentence

pace car

noun

• On a restart, the pace car leads the field around the track until race control is ready to restart the race.
  — Jim Ayello, USA TODAY Sports, 11 Mar. 2018
• This is the 16th year in the event's history that a Corvette has been the pace car at the Brickyard.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 24 May 2019
• After the pace car slips down off the track, the green flag waves, and there is nothing in front of the cars but 500 miles.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2019
• Thank you so much for letting me drive the pace car today!
  — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017
• Zdrazil played guitar for the city's annual Flekkefest and drove the pace car for the 5K run.
  — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
• At this rate, Buick's V-6 will be ready for Indy in a few more years, and in something more speedy than the pace car.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023
• When the race is about to resume, the pace car is supposed to turn its lights off and dive into pit lane.
  — Jim Ayello, USA TODAY Sports, 11 Mar. 2018
• Bromsey rode in a pace car, climbed up the spotter's stand and had a meet-and-greet session with Buescher.
  — Larry Lage, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
• Some of them reached speeds in the mid-90s, although they were required to stay behind a pace car with no passing.
  — al, 2 Apr. 2021
• In a press release for the event, Gaines expressed his excitement to get behind the pace car wheel.
  — Courtney Ortega, star-telegram, 4 Oct. 2017
• Taylor was the honorary pace car driver at the Quaker State 400.
  — Tyler Dragon, Cincinnati.com, 13 July 2019
• At the back for the restart will be those that took the free pass (as the last car on the lead lap) or wave-around (while ahead of the leaders but behind the pace car) or were penalized.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2020
• The top-6 four-lap runs from that pool will then run once more after a two-lap cooldown period behind a pace car.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2022
• They were kept in position by a laser line shot out by a pace car driving fifteen metres in front of them the whole way.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2019
• Brennaman, who has broadcasted Reds baseball for 45 years, will drive the Toyota Camry pace car, which leads the field to the start of the race.
  — Jason Hoffman, Cincinnati.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Pritchard watched the Indianapolis 500, nervously through the parade laps, as Oladipo drove the pace car.
  — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2018
• On the ground level of the Pagoda is the garage where Chevrolet displays the official pace car for the Indy 500, as well as backup pace cars.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2021
• The official pace car has high-temp brake fluid, race brake pads, and Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 20 May 2021
• At the time, O’Ward was within about a half-second of Newgarden, but like the 500, there wasn’t enough time to line up behind the pace car, clean the track and get back to green before the checkered.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2020
• Fisher will carry on her traditional role as the in-race pace car driver, with Patrick in front of the camera.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Aug. 2020
• Netflix, the upstart outsider from Los Gatos, has been the pace car for television’s transition over the past decade.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 20 June 2023
• Both the pace car driver and the series official were taken to the infield care center, where they were checked, cleared and released.
  — Gary Gastelu, Fox News, 4 June 2018
• Qualcomm provides a wireless charging unit used by the race’s pacing cars.
  — William Boston, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
• Andretti and Gaga followed four parade cars and led the official pace car on three laps before the race.
  — Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2023
• Actor Ryan Phillippe, a Delaware native, is the pace car driver.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 1 May 2022
• Took a ride with @erik_jones around @RichmondRaceway this afternoon and talked about short-track racing, getting dizzy driving in circles and why the pace car can feel faster than his race car.
  — Michelle R. Martinelli, For The Win, 21 Apr. 2018
• The Pacers' forward will serve as the pace car driver for Sunday's Verizon 200, the track announced Thursday evening.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2021
• Malzahn previously drove the pace car at Talladega before the 2014 race.
  — Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• No one is taking the 500 pace car out for victory laps around Monument Circle.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2018
• Up to 800 drivers and their passengers will be able to take two laps around the track in their own vehicles behind a pace car, according to a news release.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024