Speedway
Encyclopedia

In racing

  • Oval track racing, motor racing on an oval track which turns in one direction
  • Cycle speedway
    Cycle speedway
    Cycle speedway is a form of bicycle racing on short oval dirt tracks, usually outdoors, occasionally indoors, typically 70-90 metres long. Like motorcycle speedway, riders use machines without brakes or multiple gears but, unlike motor speedway, the object is not to slide bikes round the...

    , a form of bicycle racing
  • Motorcycle speedway
    Motorcycle speedway
    Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...

    , a form of motorcycle sport
  • Dirt track racing in New Zealand
    Dirt track racing in New Zealand
    Speedway is a popular type of motorsport that takes place on oval tracks in New Zealand. A number of tracks throughout the country provide regular racing programs and sanctioned racing series...


Other uses

Placenames
  • Speedway, California
    Speedway, California
    Speedway is a former settlement in Butte County, California, United States. It was located southeast of Chico on the Northern Pacific Railroad.-References:...

    , former town in Butte County
  • Speedway, Indiana
    Speedway, Indiana
    Speedway is a town in Wayne Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States. The population was 12,881 at the 2000 census. Speedway is the home of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, from which the town derives its name, and is a complete enclave of Indianapolis....

    , a town in Marion County, Indiana, that is the home of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  • Speedway, West Virginia
    Speedway, West Virginia
    Speedway is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Speedway is located on West Virginia Route 20 north of Athens....


Miscellany
  • Speedway (band)
    Speedway (band)
    Speedway were a Scottish pop rock group, who were formed in 2001, by Glaswegians Jill Jackson and Jim Duguid . The band acquired three more members in that year, with the keyboardist and vocalist Tom Swann from Edinburgh plus guitarist Dan Sells, now lead singer of The Feeling , and signed with...

    , a Scottish band who entered the UK charts in 2003
  • Speedway (film)
    Speedway (film)
    Speedway is a 1968 action film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a racecar driver and Nancy Sinatra as his love interest.Scenes were shot at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina...

    , a 1968 film starring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra
  • Speedway LLC, a chain of gas stations

, a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
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