page_title: Race track
section_title: Surfaces
hierarchical_section_title: Race track / Surfaces
caption_attribution_description: Stadion Haunstetten (Stadtteil von Augsburg)
context_page_description: A race track is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals. A race track also may feature grandstands or concourses. Race tracks are also used in the study of animal locomotion. Some motorsport tracks are called speedways.
  A racetrack is a permanent facility or building. Racecourse is an alternate term for a horse racing track, found in countries such as the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. Race tracks built for bicycles are known as velodromes. Circuit is a common alternate term for race track, given the circuit configuration of most race tracks, allowing races to occur over several laps.
  A race course, as opposed to a racecourse, is a nonpermanent track for sports, particularly road running, water sports, road racing, or rallying. Many sports usually held on race tracks also can occur on temporary tracks, such as the Monaco Grand Prix in Formula One.
context_section_description: Surfaces include:
  All-weather running track (Tartan) (athletics)
  Artificial turf (electric radio controlled off-road racing)
  Asphalt/tarmac (motorsport, athletics, cycling)
  Carpet (electric radio controlled racing)
  Concrete (motorsport)
  Dirt (horses, greyhound, automobiles, motorbike (track racing), stock car, radio controlled off-road racing, cycling)
  Grass (horses, amateur motorsport, cross country running)
  Ice (Ice racing – when on dirt tracks, Bobsleigh, speed skating, ice motor racing)
  Sand (horse, camel, greyhound, rally raid)
  Wood (cycling) (board track racing – now defunct)
caption: Stadion Haunstetten, a sand track
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