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Like watching the pace lap on a NASCAR race, the cars crawl around the track at typical car speeds, then they go green and open up.
Pace cars are not normal cars being driven by normal people. They're high performance cars being driven nearly flat out by professional drivers. They just seem slow by comparison to actual race cars being driven by the top drivers in the world.
Pace car speed in NASCAR is 45-60 mph, with pre-start getting around 100 mph before letting them go. Fast, but hardly flat out in a sports car. The point was that at those speeds that normal people drive regularly, it is very slow on a track built for high speeds.
My bad for assuming NASCAR was similar to F1. I didn't realize pace speed was so low
Is that the turn-left game?