Why no off road Tarmac tracks?

[Nick Goodall]

With the whole Moto-Arena thing up for debate, i just wondered why nobody has ever built a Tarmac off road track??

I'm not talking about a T/C track with some jumps, but a track that's smooth flowing, with banked corners, tabletops, whoop sections etc...

If you think about it, you could run Proline Dirt Hawgs or whatever they're called, they'd last absolutely ages, you could run in all weather conditions as long as the drainage is designed properly like roads so the water runs off the edge.....

You could then just make some shock top protectors to allow the cars to "skid" if they landed upside down, rather then snapping things or ruining shocks.

When Lee's CML Raceway was first built the whole track was actually Tarmacced before Astro was laid over the top - We drove on it a couple of times with the wrong tyres but it was still good fun, and even then i think we talked about the idea.....

It would basically be no different to a proper hard packed dirt track, similar grip levels, it would blue groove nicely in the sun and provide an awesome surface in my opinion.... especially as you could run in the wet with no issues!!

What do you think?? Even Concrete would work just as well surely!??

Think of a hard packed dirt track - they may as well be concrete!

Supermoto tracks are pretty much EXACTLY what i'm thinking of, you could even have an Astro / Dirt infield that you could run if the weather was good

Awesome couple of vids here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEcxHSncg08

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=AfbD...eature=related