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Nascar you could do better, ''The king of stock car racing''? With all their money that's what you do for these racers.That is so ''cheezeeeeeee''. We're going for the minimalist approach,using orange traffic cones and some stacked-up tires protecting part of the inside wall. If “minimalist” is Silberman's goal, he succeeded.Why not go to Wallmart and put some cones up and I will give you some left over tire's I have.Robert Hart will love this.
Daytona International Speedway unveils its new short track--sort of
By: Steven Cole Smith on May 30, 2012
Steven Cole Smith - Brett Bodine drives a Toyota Camry around the new short track at Daytona International Speedway. The track is marked off by tires and cones.
“We're going for the minimalist approach,” said George Silberman, NASCAR vice president of regional and touring series, at Wednesday's unveiling of the 4/10th of a mile oval-within-an-oval at Daytona International Speedway.
Unlike other short tracks inside big NASCAR ovals such as Texas Motor Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway--which have dedicated small ovals inside the big speedways--the Daytona short oval is just marked out on the backstretch of the superspeedway, in front of the “Superstretch” grandstands, using orange traffic cones and some stacked-up tires protecting part of the inside wall. If “minimalist” is Silberman's goal, he succeeded.
The track will be used Feb. 18-19, 2013, during Speedweeks, prior to the Daytona 500. It will host three NASCAR touring series--the NASCAR Whelen modified series, the K&N Pro Series and the NASCAR Late Models. It will be called the University of Northwestern Ohio Battle of the Beach at Daytona.
The start/finish line is against the inside wall, close to Lake Lloyd in the infield. You go left at a pylon for turn one, then turn two takes you onto the actual speedway surface. You leave the surface at turn three, and turn four and the straightaway are on the paved area that Daytona officials say is a skidpad. The wall next to the starting line has a SAFER barrier, but you head toward the concrete outside wall through turn two and onto the other straight. Turns are paper-clip tight.
Former NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Brett Bodine, who presently drives the official pace car in Cup races, gave rides around the track in a Toyota Camry pace car. The Bodine family has plenty of experience in open-wheel modifieds, and Bodine said he suspects top speeds will approach 115 mph.
“We're doing 75 right now in the pace car,” he said, looking down at the speedometer.
Bodine agrees that the ultraflat track will be a challenge, especially since there is no track like it on the circuit. Bodine said it reminds him of Riverside Park Speedway in Agawam, Mass., which was built in 1948 and closed in 1999. However, having raced at Riverside Park, I don't recall the similarities, since Riverside was a quarter-mile with 15 degrees of banking. If NASCAR teams want to find a place to test the setup for the Daytona short track, they'd do well to just find a big parking lot.
Drivers can prequalify for the UNOH Battle of the Beach by winning a 2012 Whelen modified, K&N Pro, Late Model, Canadian Tire Series, Toyota Series of Mexico or Euro Racecar race. Among those already locked in are Chase Elliott, son of ex-NASCAR champ Bill Elliott, and Joe Gibbs Racing developmental driver Darrell Wallace. If you are hoping to see NASCAR hot shoes such as Tony Stewart in the race, it won't happen--Battle drivers who are full-time competitors in the national NASCAR series aren't eligible.
But it will, at least, give a lot more drivers a chance to say yes, they have raced at Daytona.
“I think it'll be exciting,” said Bodine. “I think they can go three-wide around here.”
Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/2012...#ixzz1wTZJShDq
Daytona International Speedway unveils its new short track--sort of
By: Steven Cole Smith on May 30, 2012
Steven Cole Smith - Brett Bodine drives a Toyota Camry around the new short track at Daytona International Speedway. The track is marked off by tires and cones.
“We're going for the minimalist approach,” said George Silberman, NASCAR vice president of regional and touring series, at Wednesday's unveiling of the 4/10th of a mile oval-within-an-oval at Daytona International Speedway.
Unlike other short tracks inside big NASCAR ovals such as Texas Motor Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway--which have dedicated small ovals inside the big speedways--the Daytona short oval is just marked out on the backstretch of the superspeedway, in front of the “Superstretch” grandstands, using orange traffic cones and some stacked-up tires protecting part of the inside wall. If “minimalist” is Silberman's goal, he succeeded.
The track will be used Feb. 18-19, 2013, during Speedweeks, prior to the Daytona 500. It will host three NASCAR touring series--the NASCAR Whelen modified series, the K&N Pro Series and the NASCAR Late Models. It will be called the University of Northwestern Ohio Battle of the Beach at Daytona.
The start/finish line is against the inside wall, close to Lake Lloyd in the infield. You go left at a pylon for turn one, then turn two takes you onto the actual speedway surface. You leave the surface at turn three, and turn four and the straightaway are on the paved area that Daytona officials say is a skidpad. The wall next to the starting line has a SAFER barrier, but you head toward the concrete outside wall through turn two and onto the other straight. Turns are paper-clip tight.
Former NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Brett Bodine, who presently drives the official pace car in Cup races, gave rides around the track in a Toyota Camry pace car. The Bodine family has plenty of experience in open-wheel modifieds, and Bodine said he suspects top speeds will approach 115 mph.
“We're doing 75 right now in the pace car,” he said, looking down at the speedometer.
Bodine agrees that the ultraflat track will be a challenge, especially since there is no track like it on the circuit. Bodine said it reminds him of Riverside Park Speedway in Agawam, Mass., which was built in 1948 and closed in 1999. However, having raced at Riverside Park, I don't recall the similarities, since Riverside was a quarter-mile with 15 degrees of banking. If NASCAR teams want to find a place to test the setup for the Daytona short track, they'd do well to just find a big parking lot.
Drivers can prequalify for the UNOH Battle of the Beach by winning a 2012 Whelen modified, K&N Pro, Late Model, Canadian Tire Series, Toyota Series of Mexico or Euro Racecar race. Among those already locked in are Chase Elliott, son of ex-NASCAR champ Bill Elliott, and Joe Gibbs Racing developmental driver Darrell Wallace. If you are hoping to see NASCAR hot shoes such as Tony Stewart in the race, it won't happen--Battle drivers who are full-time competitors in the national NASCAR series aren't eligible.
But it will, at least, give a lot more drivers a chance to say yes, they have raced at Daytona.
“I think it'll be exciting,” said Bodine. “I think they can go three-wide around here.”
Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/2012...#ixzz1wTZJShDq
) had a pretty good amount of banking on it. So much so that the preferred groove for the Tour Mods was the high groove. It was "accidentally" progressive banking being flatter on the bottom. Although Stafford is rather flat it is still 9 degrees in one corner and 7 degrees in the other at twice the size being a true 1/2 mile. I would say if you want a comparison think of Plainville Stadium (now a Lowe's 
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