Bumpy Daytona track causes wrecks galore
"The track is old," Earnhardt said. "It's a terrible time to ask anyone to pave a racetrack, but if anyone needs it, it's probably Daytona."
DIS president Robin Braig said the track has a $20-million repaving project coming in '12.
[Editor's Note: Rich cheapskates. ISC makes so much money every year yet their track surface is the worse on the circuit right now and has not been repaved since 1978. 1978! Imagine that! Maybe they are waiting for the taxpayers to pay for it, the same way they paid for the bridge over Rt. 92 that taxpayers only get to use during Speedweeks, or the way they try to get the taxpayers to pay for any new track they build. So far the taxpayers in NY City, Seattle, Denver and elsewhere have told them to go pound sand.]
02/11/09 ISC "plans to resurface" Daytona Int'l Speedway in three years, the first time the track has been repaved since '78. Track President Robin Braig said that the repaving will be a $20M project. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Dir John Darby said that the surface "hasn't reached a point where it needs immediate attention … but it is near the end of its life cycle." ESPN.com [Editor's Note: BS – Just watch the cars dancing around on the in-car cameras as they traverse the bumpy Daytona surface. Expects more wrecks and torn up equipment.]
02/08/09
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| This Budweiser Shootout melee was one of many wrecks on Saturday in Daytona that took out a lot of cars. The ARCA race was a mess as well. |
It is time for ISC to open their billion dollar checkbook and repave the Daytona International Speedway. The track has become so bumpy and undulating in the corners that the drivers are losing control of their cars and causing huge crashes.
"The biggest thing is they are just bouncing all over the place and nobody can hold their own lane," said a pissed off NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kyle Busch. "A guy on the bottom either slides up because he's tight or because he's loose and it's just so difficult to race out there. Especially racing like three-wide or something like that and bump-drafting each other, the cars are tipping back and forth and all over the place. They're very hard to handle and we look like ARCA drivers."