pace lap

1. 1.

   the first lap of a car race that prepares the cars for a fast start

   Broaderlap

   auto racing

Questions about pace lap

What does pace lap mean?

pace lap means "the first lap of a car race that prepares the cars for a fast start".

Is pace lap a common word?

pace lap 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.