An automobile race is a competition between drivers of motor vehicles, usually cars, to see who can finish a course in the fastest time. The two crossword solutions for this term are INDY and ELOI. INDY is short for the Indianapolis 500, an annual automobile race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana, United States. ELOI is a reference to the Eloi, a fictional species from the 1895 novel The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. In the novel, the Eloi are a peaceful people who live in a future world where they are preyed upon by the Morlocks, another species.