Mopar Express Lane NHRA Spring Nationals news

[nickh]

Originally Posted by L.Fite

Don't they own a paving company?

Yes they do own a paving company, always wondered why they would not use some of their off spec material it fill up the sponge. They track was built out in a marsh field. Like Larry Hill said it is sad that they never have put resources back into the track for improvements. I always attend their national events, years ago they had to stop the event because they had a weeper in the right lane, the tide would come up and come up through the weepers in the track. They would get the jet dryer out and blow the moister out of the weepers and resume the event.

[Pete Lanciers]

Glad I bailed from Ennis Sunday morning after withdrawing from Houston. I left at around 7am was damn near PECOS before I drove out from under the monsoon!

[L.Fite]

Coming down hard here now...

Seems as though I remember more than once I've wallowed in mud trying to get out of there...

[L.Fite]

Originally Posted by nickh

Yes they do own a paving company, always wondered why they would not use some of their off spec material it fill up the sponge. They track was built out in a marsh field. Like Larry Hill said it is sad that they never have put resources back into the track for improvements. I always attend their national events, years ago they had to stop the event because they had a weeper in the right lane, the tide would come up and come up through the weepers in the track. They would get the jet dryer out and blow the moister out of the weepers and resume the event.

Honestly to do it right is not a cheap undertaking...
You can't just dump asphalt and smear it around...
There is a lot of prep and stabilization work to do it, and make it last...
Especially with the water table as high as it is there...
Maybe if they had done a little each year over time it would have been possible...
I fear it's too late for that now...

[Larry Hill]

That is former division champ Greg Hill and father to All Star and division champ Andrew Hill.

[Spyphish]

Lets see? If Lake Charles could just get Locust, earthquake and a big fire we could check the Mother Nature box. WetPhish

[L.Fite]

Originally Posted by Spyphish

Lets see? If Lake Charles could just get Locust, earthquake and a big fire we could check the Mother Nature box. WetPhish

Hang on...
Haven't you heard the news, the great locust hatch is about to begin!...

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by L.Fite

Hang on...
Haven't you heard the news, the great locust hatch is about to begin!...

Locusts? It's the cicadas that are taking over.

[L.Fite]

Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz

Locusts? It's the cicadas that are taking over.

LOL...
In the south, (at least where I come from) Cicadas are called Locusts...
Yeah, not technically correct but, that's what I've always heard them called.
We used to catch them at night and put them in a jar and watch them come out of their shells and dry their wings and then we let them go...
Them and fireflies...
Had tons of them too...

[Jim Hanig]

Originally Posted by L.Fite

Honestly to do it right is not a cheap undertaking...
You can't just dump asphalt and smear it around...
There is a lot of prep and stabilization work to do it, and make it last...
Especially with the water table as high as it is there...
Maybe if they had done a little each year over time it would have been possible...
I fear it's too late for that now...

Thats true the same could be said for many tracks. After living in Houston for 30 + years can say they did much,been pull out of the mud their more offend then not.