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What's That Mean?

Dennis Andrews
@dennis-andrews
13 years ago
835 posts

Did you know that the term "Self Cleaning" refers tomore than an oven?

What race track is said to be "Self Cleaning" and who is credited with giving it that description?


updated by @dennis-andrews: 12/05/16 04:10:12PM
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts
Dover, because the crashed cars spin to the bottom... don't know the author of the term


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Pete Banchoff
@pete-banchoff
13 years ago
279 posts
DefinitelyDover, the first time I heard "self cleaning" used was by Buddy Baker when he did the announcing on TV.
Tim Leeming
@tim-leeming
13 years ago
3,119 posts
Dover is the place, I'm sure of that. However, I have to go with D.W. as coming up with that. He's come up with everthing else from co-opetition to vortex to gophers to being the poster child for the biggest mouth engaged by the smallest brain.


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TMC Chase
@tmc-chase
13 years ago
4,073 posts
Keep talking up Dover folks! I'm making my first trip there at the end of the month with a COLD PASS to boot! I'm putting out feelers everywhere I can in an attempt to meet The King, AJ, Marcos, Dale Inman, Robbie Loomis, the janitor, the candlestick maker, the Three Stooges, or whomever. I'm just ready to have a ball there - self-cleaning, Scrubbing Bubbles, steel wool, or whatever it takes.


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Dennis Andrews
@dennis-andrews
13 years ago
835 posts
The track I'm looking for is indeed Dover the Monster Mile and PLK is right about the person who said it, he goes way back, all the way to the beginnings of Nascar.
Dennis Andrews
@dennis-andrews
13 years ago
835 posts
The person credited with the term "Self Cleaning" was the man that built the Monster Mile Mr. Melvin Joseph.
Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts
Mel Joseph was in the asphalt paving business, but he never could get his own asphalt to hold up at Dover. That's why it went to concrete. Paul Sawyer at Richmond used to tease Joseph unmercifully and tell him that the asphalt onSawyer's half-mile lasted from 1968-1988, but Joseph's asphalt couldn't make it through two races!


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Jim Wilmore
@jim-wilmore
13 years ago
488 posts

Good topic Dennis, love the trivia stuff.

Which track is known for sand wearing the tires out?

Jeff Gilder
@jeff-gilder
13 years ago
1,783 posts
Columbia.


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Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
13 years ago
9,137 posts
Darlington & Rockingham


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Jim Wilmore
@jim-wilmore
13 years ago
488 posts
Rockingham, built right smack dab in the middle of the sandhills but Darlington, not far from The Rock would have the same problem, don't recall it being as obvious as Rockingham. I don't know about Columbia other than it can get hotter than a griddle.