It’s a lot of dirt underneath, then some asphalt on top
was transformed into a half-mile paved oval with three lanes and 2.5 degrees of banking.
And how does the grass handle being smothered by all that dirt, plastic, plywood and asphalt? Will it be fine and spring right back to life?“We’ll end up replacing it, but in our business that's nothing new.”And is that new grass the sod stuff that you buy at the nursery, or do they plant seeds and grow grass like farmers?
When it's over, the asphalt and dirt can be reused on other projects. The Supercross organization, for instance, piles its own dirt at many facilities and reuses it whenever there’s another race.“It goes out a whole lot faster than it goes in.”
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