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Getting over the hump: a third attempt to fix Lowe's Motor Speedway finally might have smoothed some Of the 'meanness' out of the track.(NASCAR)
Humpy Wheeler, the P.T. Barnum of racing, simply was looking to put on a better show last year.
He wanted to promote scintillating, side-by-side racing at his Lowe's Motor Speedway. His idea: smooth out the track, add grip to it and flatten its infamous "Humpy Bumps."
In theory, the changes should have worked. In practice, the Barnum of racing got a circus--twice. The action was scintillating only to fans of demolition derbies.
And NASCAR will be in town the next two weekends for more fun under the big top.
Part of the smoothing involved "levigating," or grinding, the track's upper level. Wheeler had seen how successful levigating had been at Indianapolis Raceway Park and Kentucky Speedway, and he was looking for the same results at Lowe's. Didn't happen. The Coca-Cola 600, one of the circuit's crown jewel races, was marred last May by 22 caution periods totaling 103 laps, or more than a quarter of the race. Just 20 drivers--less than half the 43-car field--were on the lead lap at the end of the 5-hour, 13-minute marathon.
If at first you don't succeed, grind, grind, grind again ...
By the fall race at Lowe's, little had been done to fix the track. Wheeler ordered more levigating, this time to the front straightaway and the upper lane by the wall.
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