Track president Mark Simendinger says that the racing surface at Kentucky Speedway, while providing outstanding action thanks to its advanced age, is on its last legs.
The track is doing everything they can to keep it together and hold off on the repaving project as long as possible, but a date to pour new asphalt appears inevitable.
Sources say Goodyear’s tire test recently was, in part designed to see if a compound can be built to withstand the current surface well enough to “ward off” such a process within the next year or two. The speedway was bit by several tire failures in 2013.
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