pace car

1. 1.

   a high-performance car that leads a parade of competing cars through the pace lap and then pulls off the course

   Broadercar

   auto racing

Questions about pace car

What does pace car mean?

pace car means "a high-performance car that leads a parade of competing cars through the pace lap and then pulls off the course".

Is pace car a common word?

pace car is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.