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The league said high-banked ovals have unique characteristics, and each should be evaluated individually.
IndyCar Cites 'Perfect Storm' Alexandra Berzon 2011
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According to the report, the design of the high-banked oval track where the fatal crash occurred allowed for racers to move with unusual freedom around the course, creating an environment in which "the opportunity for this incident was increased."
IndyCar Cites 'Perfect Storm' Alexandra Berzon 2011
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Few of them mind that it no longer meets the Olympic specification, which calls for a high-banked 250m indoor track.
Herne Hill revival would be perfect legacy of the 1948 Austerity Games 2010
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The car Johnson drove Sunday was designed to be run on the 2. 5-mile, high-banked Daytona oval, and he couldn't have been happier with it.
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His son-in-law pulled the car into the high-banked sidewalk with the old tethering rings set in the concrete and put a coin in the parking meter.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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On Friday, all 12 teams, fielding 15 cars, took to the high-banked oval at Michigan International Speedway to prove they can go the distance in the range test.
Automotive X Prize competition shows [some] 100-mpg cars can go the distance 2010
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On Friday, all 12 teams, fielding 15 cars, took to the high-banked oval at Michigan International Speedway to prove they can go the distance in the range test.
Automotive X Prize competition shows [some] 100-mpg cars can go the distance 2010
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There was a low, brown mountain, with a high-banked railway grade at its base.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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The gallery forests in deep high-banked valleys are attractive to monkeys and birds.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009
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Busch, who didn't take his first lead until lap 101 and wound up leading four times for 92 laps, beat Truex to the finish by 0.495 seconds — about eight car lengths on the high-banked, 2-mile oval.
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