Track Covers

[ruffdiamond]

Shale - that's a laugh!! It looks like mud these days.

 

wud be ok, if you've got 'tigerfeet', lol

[pugwash]

Does anyone out there think that a racing surface could be protected from rain with a spray-on solution...?

If you have the banking, half decent drainage, a well packed surface, why couldn't there be some sort of spray applied protector? It doesn't have to keep ALL the water out, just the bulk of it.......

There is a product.........................It's called Tarmac.

[The White Knight]

There is a product.........................It's called Tarmac.

How about concrete - didn't I read somewhere that the Japanese had Speedway on concrete.

 

Before I get a load of flak - I DON'T think it is a good idea.

 

This would be around the time Jimmy Ogisu rode over here.

 

I'm sure that gustix or somebody will be able to confirm or deny.

[pugwash]

ffs, Don't get him going.

[Triple.H.]

As a professional sport I think the authorities in this country should organise a pilot scheme of some description with regards to track covers to see how feasible the idea is. Najjers thoughts on the subject are sensible ones so why not try some ideas out at a couple of tracks who would be willing to take part as a trial? If it doesn't work then fair enough.

No. I repeat. No sensible posts

Anyway you cannot have covers unless they are of a homologated design of specialist tarpaulin

Edited January 26, 2015 by Triple.H.

[The White Knight]

No. I repeat. No sensible posts

Anyway you cannot have covers unless they are of a homologated design of specialist tarpaulin

Knowing Speedway - you could be right.

[Shale Searcher]

Going back to this spray on protection..... I meant it to be sprayed on after the track is race ready, a bit like spraying PVA glue on a Cricket wicket, (the glued pitch) perhaps a substance could be applied to the track top that repels water to a certain extent, type of thing.......

[Tsunami]

Thats a good point. In Tim Stones 10-12 years of running Newport he must have had no more than 1 rain off a season. Anyone at the Welsh Open in '02 (or maybe 03) will remember it pouring down until start time - at which point Tim said he'd get the meeting on but start 1 hour later - by about heat 10 he had dust on his track and was watering the track All morning it had poured down with rain though. The disadvantage was the track was always dusty, it held no water.

Quite correct. I was at that meeting and rang Tim about 11.30 expecting a calloff. Instead he said there was no chance of that, and should just arrive as usual. And he was good to his word.

 

EDIT Was that not repeated with the PL Pairs meeting about the same time. Seem to remember in that one Stoney ripping off his race bib in the pits, and Frank Ebden was not very happy. But it went ahead, including Stoney.

Edited January 26, 2015 by Tsunami

[Shale Searcher]

Anybody with any ideas with regards to a spray on track water proofed?

[SCB]

Quite correct. I was at that meeting and rang Tim about 11.30 expecting a calloff. Instead he said there was no chance of that, and should just arrive as usual. And he was good to his word.

 

EDIT Was that not repeated with the PL Pairs meeting about the same time. Seem to remember in that one Stoney ripping off his race bib in the pits, and Frank Ebden was not very happy. But it went ahead, including Stoney.

That pairs meeting would have been 1999. I remember it being very dusty. And Carl Stonehewer won it too,Brent Werner.