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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context auto racing English) The top qualifying position for a race, on the inside of the front row at the starting line. 2 first place
WordNet
n. the most favorable position at the start of a race
Wikipedia
is an arcade racing video game which was released by Namco in 1982 and licensed to Atari, Inc. for US manufacture and distribution, running on the Namco Pole Position arcade system board. The game was designed by Tōru Iwatani, who had also designed the Gee Bee games and Pac-Man. It was the most popular coin-op arcade game of 1983. Pole Position was released in two configurations: a standard upright cabinet, and an environmental/cockpit cabinet. Both versions feature a steering wheel and a gear shifter for low and high gears, but the environmental/cockpit cabinet featured both an accelerator and a brake pedal, while the standard upright one only featured an accelerator pedal.
By 1983, it had become the highest-grossing arcade game that year in North America, where it had sold over 21,000 machines for $61 million ($ in ), in addition to earning $450 ($ in ) weekly revenues per machine. It was the most successful racing game of the classic era, spawning ports, sequels, and a Saturday morning cartoon, although the cartoon had very little in common with the game. The game established the conventions of the racing game genre and its success inspired numerous imitators. Pole Position is regarded as one of the most influential video games of all time and "arguably the most important racing game ever made."
In motorsport the pole position is the position at the inside of the front row at the start of a racing event. This position is typically given to the vehicle and driver with the best qualifying time in the trials before the race (the leader in the starting grid). This number-one qualifying driver is referred to as the pole sitter.
Grid position is typically determined by a qualifying session prior to the race, where race participants compete to ascend to the number 1 grid slot, the driver, pilot, or rider having recorded fastest qualification time awarded the advantage of the number 1 grid slot (i.e. pole-position) ahead of all other vehicles for the start of the race.
Historically, the fastest qualifier was not necessarily the designated ''pole-sitter . Different sanctioning bodies in motor sport employ different qualifying formats in designating who starts from pole position. Often, a starting grid is derived either by current rank in the championship, or based on finishing position of a previous race. In particularly important events where multiple qualification attempts spanned several days, the qualification result was segmented or staggered, by which session a driver qualified, or by which particular day a driver set his qualification time, only drivers having qualified on the initial day eligible for pole position. In a phenomenon known as race rigging, where race promoters or sanctioning bodies invert their starting grid for the purpose of entertainment value (e.g., pack racing; to artificially stimulate passing), the slowest qualifier would be designated as pole-sitter.
In contrast to contemporary motorsport, where only a race participant is designated pole-sitter, prior to World War II, once upon a time the pace car was designated as official pole-sitter for the Indianapolis 500.
Pole Position is an animated cartoon series produced by DIC Entertainment.
The name Pole Position was used under license from Namco, who held the rights to the name due to the video game Pole Position. The show sought to capitalize on the popularity of the video game. However, there is very little in common between the game and the show other than the car designated "Wheels" being colored red as in Pole Position and the car designated "Roadie" being colored blue as in Pole Position II.
Pole position is a racing term identifying a starting position at the front of the grid.
Pole position may also refer to:
- Pole Position (video game), a 1982 motor-racing video game
- Pole Position (TV series), a 1984 animated cartoon series
- "Pole Position", an Ace of Base demo song from their 1999 album Singles of the 90s
- Pole Position Raceway, a chain of indoor go kart tracks in the United States
- "Pole Position", a Yu-Gi-Oh! card that caused infinite loops and new rules to avoid such conflicts
- Pole Position, a Swedish synthpop band formed in 1988, now known as Elegant Machinery
Usage examples of "pole position".
The pole position and the date of the strata both say this thing was emplaced 3.
Says he's got the pole position for tomorrow and if anyone takes it from him he'll just come back and take it away from them again.
The drivers are competing for 'pole position' on the starting grid, which goes to whoever produces the fastest lap in the qualifying sessions.
Jackson had taken pole position, leaving Liz and Kaye with the air conditioning.
His response to marriage had been to begin an affair, and his response to the difficulty of maintaining a clandestine relationship had been to initiate another one, and when both his mistresses insisted that he regularize his life, when they both insisted on occupying pole position on the grid of his personal auto rally, he at once managed to find room for yet another woman in his noisy, overcrowded bed.
Independent drivers hold the pole position and seven of the top ten starting slots.
Vasvik and Lai wouldn't actually dispute that, they're just jockeying for pole position.
Because I don't know how much longer I can keep drinking beer and watching him get the high score on Pole Position which he is superb at.
All those speeches about 'expanding the remit of the social experiment' and 'assuming pole position in the larger technomeritocracy.