Brake clean cant be used. Asphalt is pretty much just oil and gravel. The surface would fall apart.
Brake clean cant be used. Asphalt is pretty much just oil and gravel. The surface would fall apart.
Well, yes and no...I've seen it happen to a lot of people over the years - some very good mechanics too, using expensive filters...
Most spectacular was Kevin Gray's GSXR at the Manfield WSB round. Warming it up in the pits and there was a flood....The air/oil GSXR 750's hold a shitload of oil....The concrete is probably still stained.
Funny enough i was at the BP station just arround the corner from Ruapuna on Sunday they had one of those massive oversize push mower looking sweepers for sweeping the forcourt.
For a National round maybe having a sucker sweeper truck on loan from FH or something might not be silly
rules say you must have a required amount of practice to run a race, especiallly in a championship, they would have had to do a lot of time to do that plus the permit would not have been for a differnt track. i'd be interested to know if that had happened at say nine am would they have had the resources to clean it in a fair time too, just trying to glean something for the future
Apparently there is a place in Christchurch that use a combination of some type of soda and waterblasting/steam cleaning for exactly this type of spill, on a good day it is dried up within about 20 minutes. I have someone getting me the details to see if it could be a future option
Most oil spill kits contain kitty litter.
looks like limestone but its called zeolite buggar all dust its some volcanic mineral.
There is a quarry or was a quarry near Rotorua. found it.
https://www.bpmnz.co.nz/en/minerals/zeolite/
At VMCC we use a product called "Lime Flour" available from farmlands, i think we pay around $6 a 20kg bag, its as cheap chips, on every flag point we have a 20kg bucket of the stuff available, plus much more in store if we need it, it does a bloody good job, when needed, plus a proper 240ltr whellie bin on wheels regulation "Oil spill Kit" ready all the time.
Shame about what happend over the weekend but thats beyond our control, when we are all involved in racing engines, the inevitable will happen anywhere anytime, thats motorsport.
I still don't know about this Containment Tray system enforcement, everyone is trying to do something to prevent the oil spillage, but its in the hands of the gods of how and where the oil will come out of a failed engine, i have seen two blown engines on solos both had oil trays but still most of the oil went on track, again you can't blame anyone.
They definitely help. My bike put a conrod through the front of the block on the fastest part of Paeroa, wasn't a single drop of oil on the track but quite a lot in the catch tray. That would've screwed the whole day for everyone rather than just me.
I won't go without one just because I don't want to be THAT GUY who shut down the whole day for everybody when it was preventable.
Zen wisdom: No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. - obviously had KB in mind when he came up with that gem
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
The problem with sidecars is that they don't immediately crash upon getting oil on the rear tyre.
Hence why sidecars manage to oil large distances of track.
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