You don't have a lot of fancy equipment, you just have you and gears and two wheels. It's not like you can accelerate in your car. You're the accelerator. The races are short and fast with a lot of pain and suffering to go. The only really true wooden track in the country.
Velodromes are tracks built for bicycles so that they can go very fast on a very flat surface.
Blaine's track is the fastest track in the country. The Velodrome just closed for the season. It re-opens in May. It's open to the public, but you do have to pass a test to ride there. The corners are banked at such an angle that you must reach speeds over 12 mph to get around them.