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Post by olderguysrule on Apr 18, 2024 11:02:35 GMT -8
^^ where I grew in the burbs they did that. then they covered it with fine gravel. a week later they'd sweep up the excess gravel. :-)
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Post by mmi16 on Apr 18, 2024 11:20:04 GMT -8
They do this shit on our residential streets here in Austin and it only lasts a couple of years even with that limited amount of slow-speed traffic. Imagine what it it'll do on a racetrack. Looks like Shanghai channeled their inner Bobby Epstein and found a new, different way to cheap out on the track surface.The story behind Shanghai's 'painted' F1 track surprise:If it's as durable as the street surface in front of my house that's constantly littered with loose, tiny rocks that have worn off, then yeah, the track will wear away and grip levels will vary during the weekend. Not as bad as COTA's varying grip levels throughout the track, I'm guessing, but probably still significant. But as Kimi says, it's the same for everyone, so wewillsee. A number of years ago Roebling Road Raceway outside Savannah made the paddock roads out of mid sized rock - when the open wheel cars came of track with their working temperature race rubber - no one in the paddock was safe with the tires picking up and throwing the rock in all directions. Shortly thereafter the make up of the paddock roads was changed, eventually they go paved with black top.
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Post by mmi16 on Apr 18, 2024 19:49:27 GMT -8
Competition so hot in FP1 the grass is on fire.
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Post by mmi16 on Apr 18, 2024 20:33:30 GMT -8
Stroll tops FP!
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Post by Zytes on Apr 18, 2024 21:06:00 GMT -8
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Post by Sabrina81 on Apr 19, 2024 0:19:17 GMT -8
This is fun!
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Post by Sabrina81 on Apr 19, 2024 0:21:13 GMT -8
LAPS ARE BEING DELETED!
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Post by olderguysrule on Apr 19, 2024 3:46:03 GMT -8
well that was interesting. :-)
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Post by olderguysrule on Apr 19, 2024 12:57:45 GMT -8
the weather channel says 24 percent chance of rain on Sunday
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Post by hairyscotsman on Apr 19, 2024 15:08:26 GMT -8
Both Saubers in SQ3. First time either Sauber has made it into SQ3/Q3 all season. In China. Interesting.
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Post by safetycar on Apr 19, 2024 16:10:24 GMT -8
I just finished watching sprint qualifying. Well, that was pandemonium.
Hooray for Lando! Hooray for Alonso!
Why does the grass keep catching fire? I mean, this is China but still, that's really weird.
I hope it stops raining for the rest of the weekend.
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Post by Pistola on Apr 19, 2024 16:46:15 GMT -8
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Post by Pistola on Apr 19, 2024 16:49:33 GMT -8
There's also an English Kravitz theory that it's peat in the soil.
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Post by hairyscotsman on Apr 19, 2024 16:55:29 GMT -8
There's also an English Kravitz theory that it's peat in the soil. I doubt it's that complex, but who knows. It's an interesting idea, and reminds me of something that happens here every year around this time. Every spring we get a ton of this brown stuff falling out of the oak trees. Dead oak blossoms? I dunno. So much that it can accumulate in clumps. It's everywhere. Sometimes when it's particularly bad and the conditions are right, it can spontaneously combust, like a mulch pile would, because of the heat built up internally as it decomposes. Sometimes we have 50 grass fires because of it in just a day. Sometimes it even causes structure fires when it collected on rooftops. It's crazy.
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Post by olderguysrule on Apr 19, 2024 18:00:37 GMT -8
^^ Well, the track was built on a swamp or a bog. Over part of the track they installed a 1/2 million wooden piles / posts. Like what they did in Venice a thousand years back. Prolly was used by the Brits and Chinese as a dump since the 17th century. Any of that refuse, like oils, paint solvents or what ever could be migrating toward the surface waiting to catch fire. There's places like that all over Minneapolis and St Paul. I mean what was it, the 1970ies when the river in Cleveland caught fire.
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Post by mmi16 on Apr 19, 2024 18:07:53 GMT -8
There's also an English Kravitz theory that it's peat in the soil. I doubt it's that complex, but who knows. It's an interesting idea, and reminds me of something that happens here every year around this time. Every spring we get a ton of this brown stuff falling out of the oak trees. Dead oak blossoms? I dunno. So much that it can accumulate in clumps. It's everywhere. Sometimes when it's particularly bad and the conditions are right, it can spontaneously combust, like a mulch pile would, because of the heat given off internally as it breaks down. Sometimes we have 50 grass fires because of it in just a day. Sometimes it even causes structure fires when it collected on rooftops. It's crazy. Are we sure it is grass and not some version of Chinese 'astro-turf'? Or real dead brown grass that has been painted green with some form of flammable paint.
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Post by safetycar on Apr 19, 2024 18:44:06 GMT -8
I doubt it's that complex, but who knows. It's an interesting idea, and reminds me of something that happens here every year around this time. Every spring we get a ton of this brown stuff falling out of the oak trees. Dead oak blossoms? I dunno. So much that it can accumulate in clumps. It's everywhere. Sometimes when it's particularly bad and the conditions are right, it can spontaneously combust, like a mulch pile would, because of the heat given off internally as it breaks down. Sometimes we have 50 grass fires because of it in just a day. Sometimes it even causes structure fires when it collected on rooftops. It's crazy. Are we sure it is grass and not some version of Chinese 'astro-turf'? Or real dead brown grass that has been painted green with some form of flammable paint. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they had just painted the dead dry grass along the track green.
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Post by mmi16 on Apr 19, 2024 19:13:20 GMT -8
Sprint under way
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Post by mmi16 on Apr 19, 2024 19:25:42 GMT -8
I wish they wouldn't use the helmet cam view - too many reflections and too much bouncing and vibrating. It the helmet isn't on YOUR OWN HEAD - your brain can make sense of the bouncing.
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Post by mmi16 on Apr 19, 2024 19:37:27 GMT -8
Spoiler VER HAM PER Great fight with ALO SAI LEC PER
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