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CUP: Daytona Repaving Scheduled
The problems during the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 will bring out the paving machines...
Mike Hembree  |  Posted April 24, 2010   Daytona Beach, FL
NASCAR officials look on as workers repair damage to the track at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. (Photo: Getty Images)
After a track-surface problem forced two red-flag conditions in the season-opening Daytona 500, Daytona International Speedway officials announced Saturday that stock car racing’s most famous track will be repaved after the July 4 Coke Zero 400.

The massive project is scheduled to be completed by Jan. 1, 2011 in time for January-February SpeedWeeks activities.

The track opened in 1959 and has been repaved only once – in 1978.

The racing surface created embarrassing news during this year’s Daytona 500 as the race was stopped twice to allow workers to patch a hole. Track officials said at that point that repaving would be considered.

The track’s 2.5-mile racing surface will be repaved, as will the skid pads adjacent to the track, the apron and pit road. All of the existing asphalt will be removed down to the original 52-year-old lime rock base, which will be leveled.

The first race using the new surface will be the Jan. 29-30 Rolex 24 Grand-Am event, a 24-hour race on the track’s road course, which includes parts of the stock-car oval. Stock-car portions of SpeedWeeks will follow, with the featured Daytona 500 scheduled Feb. 20.

Lane Construction, which has repaved other ISC race tracks, including Talladega Superspeedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Richmond International Raceway and Darlington Raceway, has been contracted to repave the Daytona track.

Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com and has been covering motorsports for 28 years. He has written several books on NASCAR, including "NASCAR: The Definitive History of America's Sport" and "Then Tony Said To Junior: The Best NASCAR Stories Ever Told". He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.

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