A trio of NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series drivers, including defending series champion Ben Rhodes, Christian Eckes and Corey Heim, participated in a Goodyear Tire Test on Tuesday March 12, 2024 at historic North Wilkesboro Speedway in preparation for the upcoming Wright Brand 250 on NASCAR All-Star Race weekend.
The Wright Brand 250 on Saturday afternoon, May 18 (1:30 p.m. (ET), FS1, MRN Radio), will get North Wilkesboro fans ready for Sunday night’s main feature, the 2024 NASCAR All-Star Race (8 p.m. (ET), FS1 and MRN Radio). The jam-packed May 14-19 NASCAR All-Star Race week will also include two nights of zMAX CARS Tour late model racing, two concerts and the NASCAR Pit Crew Challenge presented by Mechanix Wear.
In today’s test, the trio of teams worked closely with Goodyear officials to help identify a tire for Truck teams to use in the Wright Brand 250.
Completed last November, the resurfacing process included milling approximately two inches of the old track, repairing failing spots, sealing and adding a specially designed asphalt mixture in the same configuration as the original track, including the 13 degrees of banking in the corners. Similar to the process used for the most recent Atlanta Motor Speedway repave, Speedway Motorsports used a special mix that is expected to age faster than traditional asphalt, creating a more “worn-in” surface more quickly. Carl Rose & Sons Asphalt, the original paving contractor for North Wilkesboro Speedway, supplied nearly 2,000 tons of specialty asphalt for the project, while North Carolina-based Delta Contracting managed the milling process. Summers Taylor, a contractor from nearby Johnson City, Tennessee, used a process called echelon paving to lay a seamless surface across the roughly 50-foot-wide track.
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