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Originally Posted by danny waters sr
The weather has a lot to do with the track surface at Rockingham,. If i could come up with a formula for that surface i would not never have to work anymore! lol.
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I used to hate Rockingham, too, but after I moved to NC and raced there a lot, I've figured the place out. At their bracket races, the track is really quite good, but the vast majority of the cars are parked either on the asphalt or up front. When we get into issues is at Nationals where the Sportsman cars are parked in the back 9 where it's very sandy. Racers have to learn to keep their wheel wells and rocker panels clean. You'd be surprised at how many launch photos you see with sand or pebbles pouring out of the rocker panels in front of the slicks, and I'm sure those racers would spin and scream, "This track sucks!" It's not enough for you to keep your own stuff clean. EVERY SINGLE racer has to maintain their stuff every pass. I see VERY few drivers paying attention to that detail in the lanes. Sand is particularly nasty, because it's so small it gets ground into the track rubber & VHT... not as easy as blowing off larger pebbles. I've seen it get ugly there, and just stage WAY outside the groove, and the car would hook like a bear. "The Rock" and I get along now, and I even won the track championship there in '07.
In regards to the original post: yes, I see an opportunity for something beyond local S/SS Combo races, and I don't think it necessarily needs to be run in conjunction with an existing series. See the "What if...?" thread.