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My guess would be us Europeans like astro tracks due to the climates we tend to have.

A nicely sculpted dirt track is lovely, but as soon as it rains it will generally turn into a mud bath which is rubbish to race on whether its 10th electric or 8th nitro.

Also, certainly in the UK, alot of our natrual soil is full of stones and flints etc.

By running astro it gives a nice high grip surface which doesnt turn into sludge when its wet, and also offers a nice surface on which you dont chip the hell out of your chassis.

It can get very slippy when wet though, so always a good idea to have a nice harder set of spikes, schumacher greens or silvers etc.

Another good thing about astro is the fact that (certainly here in the UK) we have to pay to have certain things disposed off "properly". Getting rid of astro can be very expensive. This is why you will often seen tracks with white and yellow lines on them in places. Sports centres and schools will very often simply give away a whole sports field worth of astro to a club. The term something is better than nothing gets turned on its head. Nothing is better than paying out something lol