tractor tires get rid of them

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hornet66

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tracks need to get rid of them and put car tires in the ground the last 3 weeks that all i have seen is drivers cut down on the car the bottom and put them in the tire
 
With car tires there, they will be driving thru the infield. Something softer would be nice, but anything a driver can move or go over, they will.
 
the couple of times i have been at macon it looked like the car tires worked

all the trackes need to do is police it and i bet they would quit driving like that
 
like jimmy said in another post,as far as policing it some times you have to use some thing to get peoples attention like a tractor tire to get people to realize the track is a certain size. look at it this way better than aguard rail or a concrete wall.
 
I'd take a concrete wall over tractor tires any day. I-55, Belleville, etc. You might get pinched but you wont get destroyed. Why not bury the car tires halfway, like it was for 40 years, to designate the racing area. Then place the tractor tires 5 to 10 feet inside the car tires in case anyone wants to get ignorant. This method would still keep the cars off the corner workers.
 
I like the idea of putting car tires in the ground and having them stick halfway out of the ground, those tractor tires get to be real dangerous when someone runs you into them. Also, where they're so spread out you can have people cut in between them for a couple of laps like Don O'neal did last year at the Fed Ex 50.lol
 
I think Hornet66 & Aaron Wood sound like they are very smart about racing. Put you two together and that sounds like a winning team.....oh wait, you two already are a team! :)
 
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the tires at Haubstadt ind Tir state speedway in IN are fork Truck tires full of concrete buried 1/2 way down same problem if ya cheet um they get ya !!!
 
Those tractor tires have been kicked around on here as much as Highland's dirt. The complaint I have heard from drivers is that you don't always know where they are going to be. If a driver hits it during a race and pushes it out a little bit, that can take away the line that you are running and you don't know it until it is too late. I think the idea of putting car tires in the ground sticking up high enough to allow a driver to drive over it to avoid a wreck but not be able to gain an advantage by driving over it lap after lap is the way to go. When the SARA ran Highland, the president claimed that the fair board would not allow tires in the ground but they put them in the first year the fair board ran the track. I don't know when they were taken out or why.
 
Knoxville has the best idea.They have about an 18" berm around the inside.It does'nt tear up the cars but it slows them down enough to prevent any one from going lower than they should
 
A few years back Highland moved all of their tractor tires into the infeild and put a bunch of car tires in the corners burried about half way down. I belive the thought was that less time would be lost moving the larger tires back into place during races and in-between, but if memory serves me right it resulted in more cars being damaged by the stationary tires. The idea is to go around the tires and not over and threw them. Try to work on that first, or try finding a diffrent line around the track that doesnt involve being so close to the bottom that a simple nudge or bump or even a slight slip up will cause you to hit a tire. if none of that works I belive I-55 has a wide assortment of classes that your cars may fit into. But on second thought, they might not be as quick to move that 15 inch thick concrete wall that they have on the bottom of their track. Hey, what do I know?
 
sh5 said:
Knoxville has the best idea.They have about an 18" berm around the inside.It does'nt tear up the cars but it slows them down enough to prevent any one from going lower than they should
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I like that one too but have been to a couple of tracks where lates and mods.would do the 3 wheelin thing and would hang up and over the berm to shorten the track up for themselves.
I guess there's nothing to do except take out the tires of any kind , berms and walls and install a lazer-beam system around the track marked with little happy faces:)stenciled on the ground that if crossed over and triggered would disintegrate the car and driver making it plain and clear to stay off the bottom.:eek:
 
someone said a few posts back, something like the tires getting pushed out a little bit when someone hits them... unless it's a huge, direct hit,(the kind where the caution comes out becuase the car is mangled) the tires always get pushed INTO the infield when being hit by a car.... never out. this post happens a couple times a year, but, looks like the tires are still there. heres a novel idea, drivers'.... DON"T HIT THE TIRES!!!! there! problem solved. are the complaints gonna be about the outside wall next? as far as the complaint about getting pinched down into them, dont put your car in the position that it could happen... leave yourself enough room to stay out from them. there! another problem solved. any more issues?
 
sh5 said:
Knoxville has the best idea.They have about an 18" berm around the inside.It does'nt tear up the cars but it slows them down enough to prevent any one from going lower than they should
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I was just going to add, and got beat to it that I was at Doe Run last saturday and they did not have one single tire on the infield.

Instead they had a burm built up on the inside corner that faded to nothing in the straight aways. Then a few feet back they had some tall orange pylons marking the corners.

A couple of cars would bump a tire over the burm a little, but it didn't seem to do anything except hold the car in the track.

MCS is the worst. They have the buried car tires, then right on the other side of the tires, there is about a 3 foot drop off. I've seen and been one of cars that get spun out to the infield, right sides drop off the track and then you roll over on your lid!!!
 
hornet66 said:
the couple of times i have been at macon it looked like the car tires worked

all the trackes need to do is police it and i bet they would quit driving like that
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Macon needs some bigger infield tires. It's small enough now without the drivers going inside the tires.

You have to clearly define the inside of the track. Otherwise, you get into nightmare deals like when Kevin Huntley got DQ'ed for cutting inside the track at a Mt. Vernon All Star Circuit of Champions race in the mid 90's.
 
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