[Jeff Stout]

Being race director at Speedworld Phx AZ. I would have a lot of races that I had free rein on what needed to be done. We would scrape when time permitting. Scrub track do to desert conditions and whatever was on track from past week. Tire drag rosin in $15 worth. Glue entire lane up and then back done to widen groove. Light tire drag first 200 foot and then reglue to around 400 ft. Yes the glue has to be mixed with something. Methanol was what we used. Cost of material to do this was around 40 gallons at a mixed price of $12 a gallon. So $480. If it was a full weekend of heavy racing, this would be done on Friday. Sat. tire drag and maybe 25 gallons of glue $300, Sat. night tire drag and maybe 15 gallons of glue $180. On Sunday after 3 events and that much product believe it or not tire drag and were good to go. Then for the race we could use a couple gallons on starting line of straight glue, $20 times 2 gallons times four events of racing. Yes there is man hours but we were paid a flat rate which was good for up to 8 hours of work. Then we were paid hourly after that. If we were going past 8 hours then we must have had a good car count. ( I know we always had the same people complain about track and at times my hands were tied because of no cars, but for the most part we had a good to great track)
To me this is not expensive when looking at the income of a national event. Hell even if they used twice as much its still worth it. PJ1 was the glue