Capital place to make love and race away! (6)
I believe the answer is:
ottawa
'capital' is the definition.
(capital of Canada)
'love and race away' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'race' becomes 'tt'.
'away' becomes 'awa' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'o'+'tt'+'awa'='OTTAWA'
'place to make' is the link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ottawa that I've seen before include "N. American city" , "Canadian city" , "Foreign capital" , "capital city" , "somewhere in Canada" .)