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"armpit" <armarmpitpit (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote in
news:jZqdnUb2iZOj9nnXnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d (AT) giganews (DOT) com:

Quote:

Ha! I went to a big rig race at the Milwaukee Mile in the early
eighties. They stopped the race a few laps short when one truck blew a
tire and knocked a section of the turn 4 wall back about 3 feet, then
left a 3 foot wide stripe of oil all the way down to the start/finish
line.

Not really a surprise - I don't know what the early race trucks
weighed, but I know an over-the-road tractor with sleeper comes
in at around 32,000, so I'd guess the race trucks were well over
15,000. That's a lot for a track that was built with the idea
that 3600lb stock cars would be the heaviest things around
(yeah, I know, when Milwaukee was built that wasn't what they
had in mind...but it's been rebuilt a time or two since 1909).

John

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