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An old timer says they used to put dish shop in the water truck before they would spray the track. He says that it helps keep the moisture in.. he says California and Arizona tracks did this in the 80’s and 90’s.. is he blowing smoke or what??
https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Track-Operators-Room,30/Track-Watering,6…
Checkout JustMX's 2nd post in that thread.
He breaks it down.
The Shop
when I realize I have been posting here for 17+ years I feel......old......
Pouring a costco bottle of dish soap in a whole water truck is snake oil.
Go to your local farm chemical supply dealer and ask for the good stuff. It’s extremely expensive, extremely concentrated, and you’ll want to wear gloves and goggles while handling it. A good organosilicone surfactant will help penetrate the surface a bit, but it’s going to cost you a lot too.
They’re made for soils that repel water instead of absorbing it (called hydrophobic), especially sandy soils or clay that has dried out. You’re better off treating the track during prep, not on race day and in my experience granular wetters spread with a fertiliser spreader across the track and then watered in, works better than liquid wetters added to the water. It also works out cheaper that way.
It costs a bit, but a good treatment lasts months and is worth the investment imo.
Pit Row
It helps for the fresh aroma.
We put it in Mortar to keep it from setting up too fast in hot weather.
It would take gallons to put on a track..dono if thats a profitable solution rather than water the track between moto's?
maybe hit it hard before the season then keep discing it up with water?
the guys I talked to from the car tracks always swore by powdered laundry detergent.
I did a non-scientific test at a hard pack night track I had where I used powdered, liquid, and nothing.
I watered about dark one night and came back and looked at it the next morning.
the stuff I hit with the powder was noticeably darker than where i used the liquid, where it was hard to tell any difference from the sections I hit with just water.
it seemed like the powder foamed up less too, and I liked my water trucks with less of a head on them.
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