formation lap
Before the race begins, drivers drive around the track once to get their cars ready and to line up where they'll start. This is called the formation lap.
A formation lap is a short circuit run before the start of a race, allowing cars to warm up tires and brakes and line up in their starting positions.
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"all of the cars are going out for their formation lap. Yeah, yeah. Which is a long formation lap because it's like 20 or kilometres."
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"lap, got to the second formation lap and we thought, hang on a minute, this is starting to mean it a little bit."
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"Yeah, car started, he didn't make a mistake on the formation lap. I did actually say go back to people listening to the pod before Australia."
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