Oval track
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Oval racing is a type of motorsport, primarily American, that involves running multiple cars wheel-to-wheel in a race around a track roughly oval in shape.
Track surfaces can be concrete, asphalt, or dirt. Some ovals in the early twentieth century had board surfaces.
Major forms of oval racing include stock car racing, sprint car racing, and the form of open-wheel racing currently sponsored by the Indy Racing League or IRL.
For many years the premiere oval race in the United States was the Indianapolis 500 (an open wheel race), but among some pundits this has been largely superseded by the Daytona 500 (a stock car race).
