Extension of SAFER barrier will narrow Bristol in turns

[Mark in Oshawa]

When you say "old Bristol", you don't mean asphalt Bristol, right?

I am not old enough to really remember it except in grainy old footage. I would accept it in asphalt. I like the layout of a tight half mile with steep banking I think the concrete has been a fairer surface to race on, but the newer incarnation with the progressive banking is more of an even test. The first version of the concrete, the one that turned it into the Roman Colosseum minus the lions was pretty much a test of will and not getting the snot knocked out of you. It wasn't really racing, it was bashing people out of the way who were slower than you. I got tired of 500 lap races with 120 laps under 16 yellows. THAT to me was not really good racing. It was fun, and we saw lots of fights but it wasn't like any other race and that was good in the sense but really it was bad. It made the track as big a freak of nature as Talladega is. Even Martinsville, provides a second groove. The old concrete layout did NOT.

[Lee Roy]

I actually preferred Bristol before the high banking.

[dunes]

Which track was it that got a dirt face lift for some anniversary or something a few years back[10 maybe]?
Also I've seen alot of races both at Bristol and on tv at Bristol and I can't remember a bad race there. Sure there were bad things happen but the race itself, to me anyways, was allways a good one.
I think the safer barriers are a little much there but I won't argue the safty points of it. Furthermore the tighter the better.

[call_me_andrew]

Bristol was temporarily converted to a dirt track a few times. I don't know why they stopped doing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00OmJPBld-I

[dunes]

It was the coolest thing I ever saw at night no less.

[71Fan]

Just my opinion....give me a flat half-mile over a banked one any day of the week.