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13-01-2014, 03:50 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Perth
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A first for me, watering dowm a drag strip,
Perth was 43 degrees last Saturday at the top fuel meeting 
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13-01-2014, 04:41 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Kalgoorlie
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Hot track cool air is ideal but too hot will melt soft compound tyres and if the lower end of the track if it's asphalt and it bleeds you'll have cars in the wall as well as destroy the track
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13-01-2014, 05:28 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Pit Lane
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have never seen one watered down but agree that too hot a track and it becomes slippery
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14-01-2014, 01:32 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: perth w.a
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i was at that meeting too,i just thought they were washing the track as its top fuel meet etc,but from what has been said there may be an optimum temp for the track to be good for those monsters to run well and safely.
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14-01-2014, 11:25 PM
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Budget Racer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 2,421
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Motorplex needs to get with the program!
"Track has a proprietary 'Track Cooling System' that is unique to the drag racing industry. This track cooling system lies in the concrete launch pad and circulates chilled water from a pair of 12,000 gallon underground tanks through over 15,000 foot of lines in the launch pad. The cooled area is 200' long; 40' behind the starting line to 160' past the start. Track temperature probes in the concrete, as well as surface reading show temperature reductions between 15-25 degrees." I Sh*% you not! http://www.bandimere.com/services/trackFacts.php
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watering down a drag strip
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