In Florida we have had two big races, for Florida, at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola. It is a 1/2 mile banked oval and fairly smooth. The owner donates the facilities for the races. There is a 3/8 mile track not far from Tampa that we are looking at to have a series of races in conjunction with their regular stock car races. Is anyone racing on stock car tracks on a regular basis and what kind of problems do you run into. # 1 problem I see is the track not being as clean as we are used to.
I would think it would be a good track to run on. At 3/8 of a mile you will have a lot of laps to count! Depending on your cars someplace between 100 and 180 laps each. 30 cars on that track and you should have some heads spinning.
If the track is basicly 1/3 of a mile long. Cars running 40 MPH. You would have 120 laps. Many cars are now running faster than 40, but 30 is very obtainable by most cars out there when running on a circle.
A few years ago we had a race in John Day, Oregon. We had well over 200 laps for the winners. Talk about a head spinner. I would have been astonished if the lap counts were within 10 of being acurate. Many, many laps were missed by the counters.
As long as you are counting with the tracks counting system, I do not see a problem.
40 mph is fast for a 1/3 mile. Our cars are around that but on a half mile. We race regularly at a 1/2 mile track and the only problems are the track is a little rough but not bad and when we race the same day as stock cars we get rubber build up on our tires.
