Recently Elko Speedway named me, along with Pete Hackett, as the announcers for this upcoming season. This excites me on many levels including the fact that Elko is one of the very few tracks in America that deliver both asphalt and dirt races at the same exact location, and has since 2010. Bristol Motor Speedway experimented with it about a decade ago with mixed success and Berlin (MI) Raceway ran a dirt race last October and will try again this autumn.
I have come to learn that a lot goes into switching the race surface back and forth. Here is a thumb nail sketch of this labor intensive process:
