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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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Norris tracked Verstappen closely and a number of times the two ran side by side through some of the corners of the complex after Turn 12, the tight corner at the end of the long back straight.

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On lap 52, Norris was closer than ever coming on to the back straight and he went for the outside as Verstappen defended the inside line.

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For working your legs, add squats with your feet shoulder-width apart, looking straight ahead with your back straight.

Behind him, Sainz then immediately came under attack from Leclerc, who drew alongside down the long back straight and tried to pass around the outside of the hairpin at the end of it.

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Johnson's Blue leads them into the back straight.

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