Astro turf Q

[bbq]

We are building a new track with alot of turf!
But it is a bit long straws/hairy? if you can call it that. (cant find the right words in english)
We trimed it with an open flame befor but i was woundering what
you guys over there have done?
Untreated is feels weird to drive on.
I want it to be faster and is there any good ide to add sand or
some sort of dirt to make it more packed/hard?

/Daniel

[Northy]

Add a lot of sand, brush it in.

G

[PaulRotheram]

nooooo no sand! sand is EVIL

Burys banked corner has alot of sand come to the surface after a few rounds, it gets in to all the car, shocks, diffs, cvds.. the lot.

[jimmy]

Is that humped bit at southport without sand? because its grippy in the dry, slick in the wet and generally a bit floaty from my memory...

sand all the way!

[PaulRotheram]

it has a mix of sand and soil, grippy in dry, nuetral in the wet, if it were all that, and not grass then instantly astro, it'd be more noticeable how neutral it is, but as its a short peice, with grass either side the effect is seemed alot bigger.

the good thing is it dosnt clog every single thing on your car up.

[Northy]

There is some new astro at bury with no sand in it and it is toss. You can feel it squash as you stand on it, and it has zero grip. The area that has had sand worked into it is very grippy!

G

[Rob]

Got to have sand in the astro. Won't last long without it.

[bbq]

WOW that was fast :D
soil and sand mix sounds good :D
We have to try that. any other tips?

Thanks
/Daniel

[Lasse]

BBQ aka PIMP my fellow clubmate, things are getting clearer now, lets go for soil and sand mix, sounds good to me. Astro-Dirt......yippi /L

[Chrislong]

Guys, the sand has got to be dry sand, its very fine unlike beach sand and when dry it just falls into the astro - fill it up...

Then when the sand gets wet, it sticks in the astro for as long as the astro is layed.

Normal sand CAN be used along with anything else, it is a little harder to push into the astro and can come loose quicker than the right sand, but the Astro still works great.

Bury's astro is really good, don't know why paul was having a whinge, nobody else strugles, just got to brush it out of shocks after each round which is no big deal.

The astro on the artifical bitch at Goshen is the same stuff, they will have used to perfect sand and so people don't realise it is actually sand holding the Astro flat. Its actually about an inch deep and is quite flexibible, the sand makes it very very heavy and then it sits flat and has no pile to the top surface.

Chris