How to Use speedway in a Sentence

speedway

noun
  • Rhodes hasn’t missed a race or a major event at the speedway since.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Races are run on downtown streets, road courses and oval speedways.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Fans who decide to go to their cars to wait out the rain will be allowed back in the speedway.
    — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
  • The speedway may have a different feel and look to fans this May.
    — Michael Marot, ajc, 13 May 2023
  • All around the speedway, minivans and pickup trucks line up, bumper to bumper, and inch their way out.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2019
  • Fans in and around the sprawling speedway wept after hearing the news.
    — Mike Harris, Star Tribune, 11 Feb. 2021
  • And so from then on, 18 would be Penske’s calling card at the speedway.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
  • The 480-acre speedway will allow fans to spread out and also camp out.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 6 July 2019
  • But the most recent speedway memory is a sour one for Penske.
    — John Zenor, ajc, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The speedway didn’t name the announcer or respond to a request for his name.
    — NBC News, 23 July 2021
  • The speedway didn't name the announcer or respond to a request for his name.
    — CBS News, 23 July 2021
  • Perkins' car went airborne, landed on the roof and barrel-rolled down the speedway as parts of the car flew off.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The speedway said the rest of Friday night’s program was canceled.
    — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Brase walked the grounds of the speedway, shaking hands and meeting newcomers.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And though most fans can’t watch in-person, the speedway broadcasts races on Facebook live streams.
    — Andy Yamashita, The Denver Post, 7 July 2020
  • The speedway grounds also allowed for two full-size stages; in years past, the fest made do with one main stage and a smaller one.
    — Mike Hendricks, kansascity.com, 3 June 2017
  • Banned from the speedway last year, race fans have packed their coolers and rolled into Indy ready to cut loose.
    — Dan Gelston, Star Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • Firefighters had used the speedway as the base of their operations to fight the fires.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Penske was forced to host his first 500 as owner of the iconic speedway without fans.
    — Jenna Fryer, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The car chiefs for the Bowman and Larson teams were ejected from the speedway.
    — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 6 May 2018
  • The speedway is to discuss the deal in a news conference Monday.
    — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The speedway sprayed a sticky substance on the top section of the turns to help create a second row of racing in the turns.
    — Associated Press, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
  • Trump made his entrance to the event with a flyby of the speedway in Air Force One.
    — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 16 Feb. 2020
  • The crashes required rapid rebuilds of the speedway cars, but the 86-year-old team owner shrugged it off as bad breaks.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 22 May 2021
  • Penske and speedway officials got the clearance for IMS to all these fans.
    — Dan Gelston, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2021
  • The race was canceled, and IndyCar has not returned to the speedway.
    — Dave Skretta, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Chandler Smith was side-by-side with Zane Smith as the two trucks took the white flag for the final lap around the speedway.
    — Jenna Fryer, ajc, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The five straight is a first for Cup at a speedway that sat dormant the last decade and first for the series in the Nashville area in 37 years.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 20 June 2021
  • But IndyCar, with its range of tracks across super speedways, short ovals and road courses, is very different.
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 22 May 2026
  • The speedway is about 20 miles west of Arrowhead Stadium.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 22 Dec. 2025

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