Speedway may refer to:
Racing
Race tracks
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Daytona International Speedway
Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States, about north of Orlando, Florida, Orlando. Since opening in 1959, it has been the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race ...
, a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Edmonton International Speedway
Edmonton International Speedway, also known as ''Speedway Park'', was a multi-track auto racing facility located in the present Cumberland, Edmonton, Cumberland and Hudson, Edmonton, Hudson neighbourhoods of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The facil ...
, also known as Speedway Park, a former motor raceway in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a motor racing circuit located in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the home of the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400, and and formerly the home of the U ...
, a motor raceway in Speedway, Indiana
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Fuji Speedway
is a motorsport race track standing in the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Shizuoka, Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, Fuji Speedway was used for the ...
, a race track in Oyama, Japan.
Types of races and race courses
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Cycle speedway, a form of bicycle racing
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Dirt track racing
Dirt track racing is a form of motorsport held on clay or dirt surfaced banked oval racetracks. Dirt track racing started in the United States before World War I and became widespread during the 1920s and 1930s using both automobiles and motorc ...
, known as speedway in Australia and New Zealand
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Motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...
, a form of motorcycle sport
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Oval track racing
Oval track racing is a form of motorsport that is contested on an oval-shaped race track. An oval track differs from a road course in that the layout resembles an oval with turns in only one direction, and the direction of traffic is almost u ...
, motor racing on an oval track which turns in one direction
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Sidecar speedway, a form of sidecar racing
Geography
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Speedway, Indiana
Speedway is a town in Wayne Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States. The population was 13,952 at the 2020 census, up from 11,812 in 2010. Speedway, which is an enclave of Indianapolis, is the home of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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, a town in Marion County, Indiana, home of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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Speedway, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Mercer County
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Speedway'' (1929 film), a silent film
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''Speedway'' (1968 film), a film starring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra
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''Speedway'' (soundtrack), 1968
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"Speedway" (song), a song by Elvis Presley
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Speedway (band)
Speedway were a Scottish pop rock group, who were formed in 2001, by Glaswegians Jill Jackson (lead vocals) and Jim Duguid (drums). The band acquired three more members in that year, with bass guitarist Tom Swann from Droitwich plus guitarist ...
, a Scottish band who entered the UK charts in 2003
*''Speedway'', a 1969 racing
electro-mechanical game
Electro-mechanical games (EM games) are types of arcade games that operate on a combination of some electronic circuitry and mechanical actions from the player to move items contained within the game's cabinet. Some of these were early light gu ...
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Chicago Coin
Chicago Coin was one of the early major manufacturers of pinball tables founded in Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded in 1932 by Samuel H. Gensburg and Samuel Wolberg to operate in the coin-operated amusement industry. In 1977, ...
*"Speedway", a song by Black Midi from ''
Schlagenheim
''Schlagenheim'' is the debut studio album by English rock band Black Midi, released on 21 June 2019 through Rough Trade Records. The band recorded the majority of the album over a five-day period with producer Dan Carey at his studio in South ...
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Other uses
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Speedway (store)
Speedway LLC is an American convenience store and fuel station chain headquartered in Irving, Texas, with locations primarily in the Midwestern United States, Midwest, East Coast of the United States, East Coast, and Southwestern United Sta ...
, a chain of gas stations
*, a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
*A brand of the
Gas Engine & Power Company & Charles L. Seabury Company
See also
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race track
A race track (racetrack, racing track or racing circuit) is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing). A race track also may feature grandstands or concourses. Race tracks are also us ...
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highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roads, but also other public roads and rights of way. In the United States, it is also used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or ...
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