Track races are held on a specially built racing oval — the track. Modern tracks are 250–400 meters long. For major competitions the set width is 7 meters, the banking on the straights is 12.5 degrees, and in the turns 42. A track fully equipped with infrastructure is called a velodrome.
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Translated from Georgian with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic), reviewed by the Velorbola editors.
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