Alligator Teeth also called “rumble strips” warn you when you are out of track. Just like the strips before you get to the tool booth. They also give you a few extra inches before you fall off the track! If you look close you’ll see they are at slightly angled up from the track surface. That angle provides a little extra motion back onto the track. Don’t agree w/John, if T10 is the only place on SP that has “teeth” they’re using way to thick paint!
Generalities:
Strips Can be used on some corners, not on others. For example outside edge, usually good, inside edge – slow corner kind of OK, fast corner – not OK. The strips can also erode on the exit end & outside edge, creating a hole you don’t want to go near.
For example: T10 SP, outside edge good for exiting fast, inside edge not good, ever! T3, same as 10 but get back on track before they end! T6 inside edge, you’re just way off line but probably no harm. Outside “NASCAR” turn at VIR, big drop off last year. I bottomed DAS COUP real bad, lots of undercoating loss, deep gouges on pan, flattened seat belt bolts.
Concrete Patches = good traction, use em when you can, as much as you can, when ever you can.
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