Anyone heard anything on how the COTA resurfacing is going?

[AustinTrkJunkie]

Just picked up my car from Soulspeed and was speaking to the team there and they said that as of 2 weeks ago when they were there with Edge Addicts, no work had started. Little concerning in that Chin has an event 4 weeks from this coming weekend.

And from what I understand, the amount of smoothing they need to do to get rid of the bumps on T1, Straight before T12 and the T18/19 complex - is a LOT of work. Like tearing out the concrete and redoing the entire surface. Seems grinding down - which they did before and destroyed the paint on many a car - will not work at this point.

Can say that latter set of bumps almost spun me a couple of times, enough to where I started taking the F1 line (way outside which is not optimal for a non-F1/high downforce car) to avoid them.

Anyone have any insight here on what's happening at COTA re: resurfacing?

[SYT_Shadow]

I don't, however, if history tells us something is that large projects are always delayed....

[AustinTrkJunkie]

Posted this over on Rennlist and got a reply saying that the track was now closed and they were starting to tear up the surface...so guess we'll see if they finish in time!

[Kelse92]

Are you a member of the Texas HPDE/Track/etc Facebook group? Somebody posted the same question about it over there and someone in there linked to a post on GP Americas page with photos (see HERE). Quite a bit has been torn up to be resurfaced and they are redoing some of the parking too. CHIN's event is the first one there this year I think so I guess we'll see. It doesn't look like the work they are doing is as extensive as was originally talked about. Just seems like they're grinding and re-doing the top layer, not whole sections with drainage etc like we all thought

[AustinTrkJunkie]

Originally Posted by Kelse92

Are you a member of the Texas HPDE/Track/etc Facebook group? Somebody posted the same question about it over there and someone in there linked to a post on GP Americas page with photos (see HERE). Quite a bit has been torn up to be resurfaced and they are redoing some of the parking too. CHIN's event is the first one there this year I think so I guess we'll see. It doesn't look like the work they are doing is as extensive as was originally talked about. Just seems like they're grinding and re-doing the top layer, not whole sections with drainage etc like we all thought

Just saw this post, sorry for the delayed reply and thanks for the link/insight. Also just got this note from a member at Rennlist:

Partial repaving should be complete by the end of next week, weather permitting

[Suds]

I love the partial, and then I think about I-10 with uneven lanes during repaving.

[AustinTrkJunkie]

There are some good pics of the work on the thread I started over at Rennlist now...

https://rennlist.com/forums/racing-a...l#post16343712

[Kelse92]

Some friends of mine shared this image in our group chat today. Looks pretty much done.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/orVwaLN

[AustinTrkJunkie]

Originally Posted by Kelse92

Some friends of mine shared this image in our group chat today. Looks pretty much done.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/orVwaLN

Interesting, that is some black tarmac!

There in two weeks, will report back on condition

[ATX_M3]

Originally Posted by AustinTrkJunkie

Interesting, that is some black tarmac!

There in two weeks, will report back on condition

After being out @ COTA for the day, I can say the surfacing has made the track much, much smoother but it's a bit slick - I'm sure that will get better over time.

All of our "favorite" bumps in 1, 10, 18 and all down the back stretch are now a thing of the past.

[Suds]

I won’t know when to really brake at max into turn 1 without the hump.

[Malakas]

Was out yesterday as well, there's still a nice dip into 1 for your braking , but the rest is smooth. They resurfaced more that I was expecting. Carousel didn't have the grip I was used to... But other than that it was very nice

[AustinTrkJunkie]

It was 1000x better than with Chin back in August.

Slick to start Saturday morning, yes. But by Sunday afternoon couldn't tell any difference in grip levels between non-resurfaced and resurfaced.

The big question is how long will this last. Was a little over a year after the grinding that the bumps came back...hope it lasts longer this time!

[tom @ eas]

Originally Posted by AustinTrkJunkie

Just picked up my car from Soulspeed and was speaking to the team there and they said that as of 2 weeks ago when they were there with Edge Addicts, no work had started. Little concerning in that Chin has an event 4 weeks from this coming weekend.

And from what I understand, the amount of smoothing they need to do to get rid of the bumps on T1, Straight before T12 and the T18/19 complex - is a LOT of work. Like tearing out the concrete and redoing the entire surface. Seems grinding down - which they did before and destroyed the paint on many a car - will not work at this point.

Can say that latter set of bumps almost spun me a couple of times, enough to where I started taking the F1 line (way outside which is not optimal for a non-F1/high downforce car) to avoid them.

Anyone have any insight here on what's happening at COTA re: resurfacing?

Review from last weekend: https://www.m3post.com/forums/showth...8#post25761828