Fresh Surfaces concrete or otherwise

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  1. rb0804

    rb0804 Active Member

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    anyone have any experience or stories about a freshly built or paved facility? Just curious, I remember there were issues at Charlotte several years ago with portions of the track coming up, but I think that it has been re-done since. With Gainesville re-doing in all concrete what can we expect? I was looking at the schedule today and there isn’t a lot of racing between when they open and Lucas Oil race where they will have Alcohol Cars. I was hoping to go down and test between now and then, but curious of how soon is too soon to cranking out big power on fresh concrete.
     
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  2. Will Hanna

    Will Hanna We put the 'inside' in Top Alcohol
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    Last year Norwalk was brand new. They hired Kurt Johnson to come in and lay the rubber down, then had several days of free testing...so the first cars down were literally days before their divisional. The track got pretty good, the only thing that really hurt it as the weekend went on was a big rain storm on fresh rubber.

    It will boil down to who preps it and what they use ultimately. I would be real surprised being an NHRA track and the weekend before the Gators if the whole Safety Safari entourage wasn't there doing the prep.
     
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    I'd like to go down and watch/help you. Lacking sunshine up here......
     
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