"flat oval" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: flat ovals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} flat oval (plural flat ovals)
  1. A type of racetrack, where the circuit is not banked to allow for track in cornering, thus missing positive camber needed to transform centrifugal force into normal force and traction. The shape footprint of the oval itself is unrelated to being "flat", as it only deals with the banking of the track and not the shape traced out by the track. Coordinate_terms: oval (english: a racetrack in which all segments are either convex or straight), banked oval (english: an oval with positive-camber banking, especially over the convex (turn) segments)
    Sense id: en-flat_oval-en-noun-Gyly23fG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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