pace car

English Thesaurus

1. a high-performance car that leads a parade of competing cars through the pace lap and then pulls off the course (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar,
definition	:	a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine (noun.artifact)

domain category	:	auto racing, car racing,
definition	:	the sport of racing automobiles (noun.act)