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back straight

noun

  1. a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Piastri cut back on the exit, and they ran side by side down the long back straight, with the Australian on the inside.

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Piastri got the cut-back on Norris out of the corner and they drove down the back straight towards the final chicane side by side, Piastri on the inside.

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"I had a good conversation with Bob, mostly around not pushing too hard too early and trying to get those shots back straight away," McIlroy said.

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Behind Verstappen, Mercedes' George Russell passed Ferrari's Charles Leclerc for fourth place with a dive down the inside of the hairpin at the end of the long back straight on the first lap.

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Norris had appeared to be on target to take sprint pole with a blistering first-sector time on a second run but braked too late for the hairpin at the end of the long back straight and ran wide, forcing him to abort the lap.

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