I second this about Sun Prairie. Been there well over 100 times, sat in a bunch of different spots and never took a rock. Some good sized lumps of clay - but those have some give, rocks don't.

If rocks on a racetrack are a problem, a fence with 1/2" mesh about 12' high above the wall will take care of the rocks. I've raced all over the USA and the best tracks for no rocks are the ones who use black dirt, the kind of dirt that grows corn. Boone Iowa is a good example, it's a black dirt racetrack

This sounds good in theory, but in practice it would severely limit spectator views from side to side. You'd probably only be able to see the cars once they got to within 30 feet of your seat, and then past also. That is, unless you used a mesh so thin that it would be useless.

I think the CC people may know a caterer!



They are good people. They see what you are saying. I bet if you give them some time, they will make it better.

Thanks for the new name "Quinn the know it all" I'll have to think of new lyrics to the song "Quinn the Eskimo" and start singing it.

At least I'll be wound free when singing,as I know enough not to sit where I'll get hit by flying debris....

(Edit) thought of a new lyric on the way to work this morning.....

Come all without, come all within
You won’t get hit by rocks if you sit next to know it all Quinn...

I must respectfully disagree with any notion that The Prairie is rock-free. My pre-race ritual of walking the track with my screwdriver includes exhuming the visible rocks that are half the size of my fist or larger. Business is always good… if I were to try to remove the rocks smaller than that, I would never be able to leave the racing surface. Any driver that races there will tell you that rocks are an issue. Turn 1 spectators know to be on the lookout.

Most tracks have a rock problem. Occasionally it is of the track operator’s own doing because they’ve graveled the pits, and sticky mudpack tires pick up the gravel and “redistribute” it. Even without graveled pits, the native rocks work their way to the surface from track work and rain. We’ve reminisced about the rock collection parties at Sun Prairie, but to my knowledge there hasn’t been one in years. In reality, the only tracks I can say we haven’t experienced a rock problem are the few gumbo tracks that are in the river bottom, or the dust bowl stock car tracks that never get opened up at all.

If you want to a part of the solution, offer to organize a rock party through the track operator or booster club. Get with the local scout troop or high school band and for a modest donation to that volunteer organization, you can have them pick up the rocks and make a small improvement to the racing surface.

If you want to be a part of the problem, keep banging your keyboards and pontificating about what someone else should do. Do that enough and the whole racetrack will become one big rock parking lot for an auto salvage. But hey, at least then you won’t have to worry about being hit by rocks…

Best solution to eliminate rocks and dust, pavement

You can always spot Quinn at a race track, He's the one singing "Can't touch this"

Didn't a USAC flagman get hit in the nut sack by a rock at
16th Street Speedway back in the 1990's?

Dirt is for racing,
Pavement is for getting there.