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2011 Rolex Series Test at Daytona Int’l Speedway, DAytona Beach FL, Jan 07-09, 2011


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2011 Rolex Series Test at Daytona Int’l Speedway, DAytona Beach FL, Jan 07-09, 2011

Daytona 24 test January 7th 2011

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Question by ChevyPride0310: Daytona repave job done with five days to spare?

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Approximately 20 Cup teams to participate in Goodyear test Wednesday

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — On Friday, the checkered flag waved for the paving crew of Lane Construction as they finished the final paving of Daytona International Speedway five days before its first scheduled track activity.

Wednesday at 9 a.m. ET, nearly 20 Sprint Cup teams are set to work with Goodyear officials and engineers on a two-day tire test to determine the best rubber compounds and tire construction for February’s Speedweeks.

Among the drivers tentatively scheduled to participate in the test are 2010 Daytona 500 champion Jamie McMurray and his Earnhardt Ganassi Racing teammate Juan Montoya, Brad Keselowski, Kurt Busch, Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., David Ragan, Matt Kenseth, Casey Mears, Trevor Bayne, Paul Menard, Jeff Burton, Bobby Labonte, Todd Bodine, Regan Smith, Reed Sorenson and Brian Keselowski.

The test is scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday with a lunch break tentatively scheduled around noon. During Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Goodyear’s Rick Campbell said the test might be complete in one day, but NASCAR and the speedway have scheduled a media event at noon Thursday including several drivers and track, NASCAR and Goodyear officials.

During the test, the public has free access to a section of the Oldfield Grandstand through the lobby of the Daytona ticket office.

The repave, only the second since the track was built in 1958, began on July 5, two days after the midsummer Coke Zero 400 Cup race.

In the project’s 23rd week, the paving crew wrapped up the final pass on the apron in Turns 1 and 2 late Friday afternoon, following some morning inclement weather. While all the paving is complete on the racing surface, skid pad, pit road and the apron, there’s still a punch-list of items being worked on to get the speedway capable of holding the first of at least four test sessions that are scheduled before Speedweeks’ racing events.

Included on that list are finishing touches to the re-installation of the Musco stadium lighting, such as connectivity and adjustments of the lights; the striping of the track has begun and is ongoing; the process of hanging the eight caution lights around the track is ongoing; installation of the electronic “scoring loops” is ongoing; and finishing touches are being put on the catch fence in all four turns.

Lane Construction, which repaved other International Speedway Corporation race tracks including Talladega Superspeedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Richmond International Raceway and Darlington Raceway, used an estimated 50,000 tons of asphalt — prepared in a temporary facility installed behind the track’s backstretch — to repave more than 1.4 million square feet of the speedway.

Speedweeks 2011′s scheduled start is the 49th annual Rolex 24 At Daytona Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series race on Jan. 29-30. It ends with the 53rd annual Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 20, the prestigious season-opening event to the Cup season.

So any thoughts about the repaving being done and the testing?
mbl – I know a lot of people agree with you since every track has some kind of character but just realize the new surface should change little by little every year as more races happen on it. Especially since NASCAR isn’t the only organization that races there. It might take a couple of years but it’s better to repave and have the character eventually come back than to have delays every race.
Rusty – It didn’t save them any $. It’s one of those things that are paid per job, not per day. So they’d have to pay the same amount no matter how long it took as long as it was finished by the deadline NASCAR gave. If the company got paid per day don’t you think they would take as long as possible so they can get paid more for the same job? Think about it.

Best answer:

Answer by mbl
I was disappointed that the repaving happened. I don’t like 5 hour delays for pot holes and I understand every track has to have new asphalt every so often. But the new pavement will take some character out of the place in my opinion. My hope is that there isn’t so much grip that every car is running wide open lap after lap after lap a la Talladega. At least at Daytona, teams had to get their car to handle providing the opportunity for the best teams and drivers to shine rather than the lotto finish that ‘Dega often presents. I liked on long runs that the field got separated as the haves moved forward the have nots fell of the pace.

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Daytona’s Rolex 24 race gets off to hectic start
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An aggressive early pace at the Rolex 24 at Daytona led to a track full of debris, a rough start for the favorites and led veteran drivers openly wondering why teams were pushing so hard in the starting stages of an endurance race.
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