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Where expensive things turn left very fast to go absolutely nowhere.
means A track built for racing vehicles, or a channel/conduit designed to guide something — water, cable, electricity — along a fixed path.
from A straightforward compound of 'race' (in its old sense of a swift current or rush, as in a mill-race channeling water to a wheel) plus 'way' (a path or course). The vehicle-track sense borrows this same image — a channel cut for speed — and simply swapped rushing water for rushing cars.
- origin
- first meant a channel guiding water, not cars
- electrical use
- also means a conduit hiding ugly wires
- nascar ovals
- most are under 2.5 miles, lapped in seconds
- daytona banking
- turns tilt 31 degrees, steeper than most ramps