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Draw a vehicle overturning in a race (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

attract

'draw' is the definition.
(I know that draw can be written as attract)

'a vehicle overturning in a race' is the wordplay.
'a vehicle' becomes 'cart' (cart is a kind of vehicle).
'overturning' is a reversal indicator.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'race' becomes 'tt'.
'cart' reversed gives 'trac'.
'a'+'tt'='att'
'trac' placed inside 'att' is 'ATTRACT'.

(Other definitions for attract that I've seen before include "Draw towards like a magnet" , "Allure" , "Draw towards one, as magnet does metal" , "Entice" , "Draw, pull" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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