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Originally Posted by Dick Monahan
I've seen lots of pics of cars hitting the foam and it looks like it makes a terrible mess. How long does it take to clean up the track after one of those hits? Do they replace the destroyed blocks with new ones?
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Dick, I think the going price for a new foam block is $225, they are always looking for people to sponsor a block and do replace them when needed. During classic when caution laps count the clean up can cost a race team valueable laps if they are able to continue however the Oswego Speedway Safety Crew is the best out there and does everything they can to get a car going as fast as possible or treat an injured driver as fast as needed. At the begining of the race season if the blocks have been replaced with all new ones they look pretty good, as the season goes on they look like a jagged mess, as long as they are still functional they are used. Last night when the race was over, we were sitting in the pits an I happend to look down into turn 1 where I saw two young kids had climbed on top of the blocks, they were just having a ball walking on top of them.
Patti