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Old 02-27-2019, 05:07 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by dilanesp View Post
Askin, the synthetics consistently reduced fatalities AT THE SAME RACETRACK over the previous dirt track.
A new track surface including new base will result in fewer breakdowns.

There was a video floating around, and I imagine it's still out there, where Scollay is giving a lecture to students and she admits that in the first few years that the breakdown rate was lower on synthetics but a few years in (and at the time of her lecture), the gap was closing.
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