Lmao I love how this was the only thing we cared for the entirety of the day and now it just happened and we're all just left there like "huh...so it's really happening eh?"
Like bro I don't even know what to say it's actually happening ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
I don't even know what the hell they did: https://x.com/StartAndParkCar/status/1795599611316572296
Bottom lane looks concrete? 2nd lane full repaved in asphalt, 3rd lane half repaved in asphalt?
Repave the whole damn track then what idiotic move is this?
NASCAR goes to multi groove short track and immediately makes it single groove with a repave? WTF.
This is gonna be REALLY bad. Especially turns 1-2, the top is so bumpy there's no way there can be a high line.
3-4 everyone is still gonna wanna run the repaved part to save tires.
Jesus NASCAR what is this move?
Yeah , repave the whole track. It’s just going to be single file on the bottom by repaving only the inside lines like tf , won’t be suprised if the cup race sucks ass on what could have been one of the only good short tracks that work with tbe current cup car
Local rumor is they had to redo it twice too. There was a Nascar rep on site as it was going down and they were ok with how the pore was going. There was a brake in work, and a different two was sent out when they started back up and he wasn't having any of it and had them start over.
So they stealth paved half a track within viewing distance of one of the major travel arteries across the US? How was this not reported until it becomes the most buried story to break in a day due to the SHR implosion?
Are you freaking kidding me? The outside line will be 100% irrelevant. Whole thing needed to be repaved if anything needed to be repaved. Have we not learned that you can't just put patches of fresh asphalt in the turns yet? It will ALWAYS be the dominant groove(s).
Surely this will be the biggest piece of Nascar news in the next 4 minutes
Bob has SHR died yet or nah
It just did
Lmao I love how this was the only thing we cared for the entirety of the day and now it just happened and we're all just left there like "huh...so it's really happening eh?" Like bro I don't even know what to say it's actually happening ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Well Iowa, you were fun while it lasted...
I will hold my judgement. But I can’t imagine this is a good thing at all. Wish we had atleast one race with the old pavement
The issue was the track started to come apart on the bumps. It would have like Atlanta its last race before the repave.
Once again, r/nascar melts down without looking for additional information.
Wtf was the point of that? The racing will be terrible. No reason to go above the new pavement.
Apparently there were too many bumps, and it wasn't gonna work well for when Indycar races.
Indycar hasn’t had any problems the last 2 years. It can’t be any worse this year
Indycar drivers have complained about significant back pain from Iowa
Them Indycar drivers aren't real men (sarcasm)
In Iowa, it can. We swing wild in our highs and lows, and water freezing in the pavement before it can drain off is almost explosive.
Reports were the track was starting to come apart.
I don't even know what the hell they did: https://x.com/StartAndParkCar/status/1795599611316572296 Bottom lane looks concrete? 2nd lane full repaved in asphalt, 3rd lane half repaved in asphalt?
Repave the whole damn track then what idiotic move is this? NASCAR goes to multi groove short track and immediately makes it single groove with a repave? WTF. This is gonna be REALLY bad. Especially turns 1-2, the top is so bumpy there's no way there can be a high line. 3-4 everyone is still gonna wanna run the repaved part to save tires. Jesus NASCAR what is this move?
Yeah , repave the whole track. It’s just going to be single file on the bottom by repaving only the inside lines like tf , won’t be suprised if the cup race sucks ass on what could have been one of the only good short tracks that work with tbe current cup car
Finally gets a Cup race at Iowa, is immediately replaced. :-/
I swear it feels like they purposefully want the racing to be as bad as possible
Local rumor is they had to redo it twice too. There was a Nascar rep on site as it was going down and they were ok with how the pore was going. There was a brake in work, and a different two was sent out when they started back up and he wasn't having any of it and had them start over.
Should have used concrete.
Damn, it rained so hard it repaved the track?
Was this even necessary????
So they stealth paved half a track within viewing distance of one of the major travel arteries across the US? How was this not reported until it becomes the most buried story to break in a day due to the SHR implosion?
I’ve seen some half assed repaves but this.. this takes the cakeÂ
Are you freaking kidding me? The outside line will be 100% irrelevant. Whole thing needed to be repaved if anything needed to be repaved. Have we not learned that you can't just put patches of fresh asphalt in the turns yet? It will ALWAYS be the dominant groove(s).
Dude, even if they repaved the whole thing it was still gonna have dominant grooves…
Iowa being multi-groove was literally its selling point.
Yes, but multi-groove tracks don’t stay multi-groove after repaves unless configuration is changed to account for the new surface
Um...why?