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Originally Posted by car24
Nice video, I would have thought the salt would be a lot smoother than that. Are those really dips or holes in the salt? Anyway nice job.
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The volunteers, officials and people who make it happen do the best job they can preparring the course. Think about trying to manage 2 courses 7 miles long and 100 ft wide. The salt is either good or it isn’t. Conditions play a big part of the challenge.
The salt varies from one event to the next. This year was close to being cancelled due to rain. It dried up and the course was awesome. The soft spots where it looks deteriorated didn’t seem to affect the ride and was like going over slush on a hard packed surface. A bunch of it would be worse and could be bad.
Last year it was very hot, dry and produced concrete hard smooth salt. It was the best I’ve driven. It still deteriorated when racers spun their tires, got sideways, looped it, etc. When the soft spots that are created are dry it’s more like sand and can also affect the ride. Everywhere was flat and smooth in 2006. You couldn’t distinguish the difference between the course, runoff or return road. It looked so much like ice that I actually brushed it with my foot from side to side trying to look through it
In 2005 it was cooler and the course was very rough....
In the video below, just past the 4 mile was a high point of concentration....
http://www.svspower.com/images/upload/video_57_0.wmv
....and it slithered through the 5 mile
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