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But the race last week was really good

The car’s and the wheels are trouble you ain’t gonna see much or that’s right you didn’t see much it was a horrible race the wheels kept flying off the cars garbage Jr.Johnson’s turn over in his grave

@@1406Alexx The race sucked! New asphalt for cars that are prone to spinning out. Just what they need. More accidents than ever and we end up with long lines of cars that can't pass. They need to find out why this car spins out so easily. I think they also need to get away from the low profile tire. I believe the sidewall is not strong enough to keep the bead in the rim. It slips out and causes the flat tires.

round and round in and endless circle . . . .

I would love to do this some day on any track

I wonder if they did something at least some of the old asphalt.

Me to. Me to. Also I wish it was California speed way they were doing it to. It need help to bumpy.

They had a promotion where if you bought both the spring and fall tickets during a time frame you could have gotten a piece of the old track the rest they grounded up and put it in the mix for the new track

@@andrewstewart8339 That's good to know thank you!

@@andrewstewart8339 Ah good. At least they did a good thing.

I want a piece of that old track! They should sell sections of it... U know? Would be a great way to raise money for charity or something.

I remember when it had the red stripes on the walls, when it used to be a complete oval.

Superspeedway speeds=Lower speeds. Been that way since the 80s

Atlanta isn't a Super Speedway

@@JediOfTheRepublic it is now

@@JediOfTheRepublic you been following racing for a whole year and a half I can tell already. It's a figure of speech bruh. Insane fast speeds on a 1.5 mile are essentially superspeedway conditions. Ask any driver.

@@JediOfTheRepublic AMS has loooooooong been a favorite of many top-notch Nascar drivers.

why is it historic

I was there too 😁 the weather was perfect Saturday

Me too

Next week we get to see Sunday march 20

Well above average. But then again its not about size but how you use it....

Yeah😔

I felt the opposite! He said something about everyone enjoying the results of the work by watching the races, but I hate watching races. I'm only here for the construction and engineering. When I have gone to races, the pits are the bets part because I got to see what went into running the cars or boats. I was hoping to hear more about how each machine works and what they actually do to compact or roll the surface, how the crane was setup (the video didn't show much of that until later, so I was pausing to figure out how it was configured). They hardly scratched the surface. Is the top layer of asphalt also open to allow water to pass through or is it closed so rain runs off and only ground water comes up and drains? How thick was the road base and how did they compact it? Do the support arms between the machines have a hinge point to adjust for angle? As a construction pro and engineering person (no schooling or degree, but someone who builds solutions to problems) I was hoping for more. It was cool to see an overview of a track being rebuilt. I watch Cleetus McFarland and loved their videos on repairing a small track.

@@CGT80 definitely could’ve gone more in depth but it’s rare they show this much behind the scenes on a basically brand new cup series track. I’ll have to check out those Cletus vids for more info. Thanks!

Same here man, super excited

Austin Cindric was saying on Jr.'s podcast that they're running superspeedway motors on intermediate chassis.

if stuff was done right the ground is compacted already

Sadly. It was abysmal, atrocious, and terrible.

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💯 that’s what I came here for too. They hardly covered anything really and we all know the host or whatever of this video is just a talking head who doesn’t know anything about all that 🥱

and that ridge from the asphalt lanes coming out of the bank, you can already see the ass ends of some of those testers getting loose and bouncing. Wait until they are drafting doing the same and no downforce to keep it planted. Gonna be sketchy ride through there.

That is a ground water drainage system. How is fuel going to get under the surface? You are not understanding the design.

@@paulcopeland9035 guess it depends where it runs off to 🤷🏻‍♂️ they didn’t say any details on car fluids

@@rickcraver837 ...Car fluids will run down the track and into the infield as before. Ground water (which they have had trouble with for years) will travel in the special asphalt layer to the infield under the racing surface and into the drainage trenches shown in the video.

@@paulcopeland9035 Any car fluids that would be spilled in the same area as the water will indeed run into the same place as the water drainage. There's no magical chemical sorter built into the gravel that distinguishes between fluids. Now with that said id imagine with the EPA fucks being how they are... nascar has designed some filtration system into this "fancy" drainage system to at least reduce the amount of contamination.

@@crisnmaryfam7344 ...Review the video. They are channeling (piping) the ground water in trenches to a collection site. Car fluids won't get near that collection system. This type of system is as old as time. The cool part of this system is the special asphalt based underlayment that allows the ground water to freely move through it.

Fans love superspeedways to and they love 1.5 mile tracks now due to the great races at those tracks this season, people have been asking for Kentucky back and so many 1.5 mile tracks lol. The reason fans wanted more short track was because of How trash the 550 Hp package was

@@ninjawarrriorr3062 The fans' push for more short tracks started when nascar still ran the gen 4 car. It had nothing to do with the 550 package.

I hope it's good too, but definitely not my type of track. Just hoping it isn't another TMS-type of failure.

It would be nice if they went back to 750 hp

@@Thomas-qh3vj Number is just a number, You can have a 600 hp car walk the ever living shit out of a 700hp car or even a 1000hp car, if the 600 is set up proper. At a certain point it becomes more of a challenge (and more rewarding time wise) keeping the power to the ground then making more of it.

@@Thomas-qh3vj you only say that just because 750 is a bigger number, even if the racing was trash