Stellar field heading for Smoky Mountain this Saturday

[TerryM]

It's not disked. Grading doesn't do anything to help get the water in the track. They need to take some lessons from Sarge or Helfrich.

There’s a lot you need to learn.

[TeNfOMaFiA69]

So much Truth Terry

[dirtcrazy4u]

Actually a lot depends on the soil. Time of year, and many more factors. One I do know, if the track was sealed all winter and the Temps never dropped for the surface to frost where that alone pushes moisture deeper into the soil. If they didn't get water down into the soil by tilling a min of 6" then seal the surface after 24 to 48 hrs it locks the moisture into the surface. Dirt track prep is a science, you have to know the soil, because each track is different.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

Disking, lots of water, sheepsfoot, an additive that you like that works with your soil, and more sheepsfooting. Fine line between taking rubber and sucking to being balls out tearing sh!t up.

[TerryM]

The biggest factor some of you ignore is, once you start going further south — it starts around the Kentucky/Tennessee border — most of the tracks are red clay or red dirt. It’s a whole different animal. Nothing at all like the actual *dirt* tracks many of us have known and attended our entire lives. As CnB said, it’s a fine line. And that line is even thinner down here in the Deep South. One of those red tracks — Swainsboro — is reopening next month, with supposedly several changes. They’ve added a wall, and I’ve seen that in person. What I’m waiting to see is, is the racing surface going to be better. It was lockdown freight train around the bottom every time before they closed. That’s why they closed. Hopefully they’ve taken care of that issue. We’ll be there to see.