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Fox Ridge Speedway To Reconstruct Racing Facility
(March 4, 2006) – FOX RIDGE SPEEDWAY owners Dave Hesch and Jeff Reglin have
announced that starting as soon as the frost is out of the ground they will
begin an extensive project to re-design and improve the racing surface at the
speedway. Comments from drivers in all classes have made the management
consider the reconstruction and design changes. “Our plan,” said Hesch,
“is to make the necessary alterations so that fans and racers at this track
can experience some of the best and most competitive multi-grooved racing in
the upper mid-west.”
In order to bring this plan to fruition, FOX RIDGE SPEEDWAY has enlisted the
assistance of Les Duellman to help create the re-design plan. As a graduate of
the prestigious Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Duellman plans to put his
Mechanical Engineering Degree, not to mention years of successful racing
experience, to work; “What I am doing is taking an engineering approach to
designing the banking of a race track,” explained Duellman, “No body
enjoys watching racing on a single groove race track; so, using an engineering
program I’ve developed, we will create a variably banked corner design which
will produce an equally competitive multi-grooved racing surface for all
drivers.”
In layman’s terms, a variably banked corner (often compared to the inside of
a soup bowl) produces a flatter bottom groove with progressively increasing
degrees of banking as one chooses a lane further towards the outside of the
racing surface. This allows multiple strategies for drivers: slower, yet
quicker, inside grooves or faster, yet longer, outside grooves. “In my
planning,” continued Duellman, “I would like to see four complete grooves
all producing equal lap times. It can be done.”
After the redesign is complete, a different type of clay will be put in place
as a new racing surface and a new, more fan-friendly, winner’s circle will
be designed to bring feature winners closer to the grandstands for a more
personal victory celebration!
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