New Look for Daytona?

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John Galt

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From jayski.com:
NASCAR wants lane stripes at Daytona: NASCAR will ask Daytona International Speedway to add broken, white lane stripes between Turns 1 and 2 and Turns 3 and 4 before returning in February. Sprint Cup director John Darby said before NASCAR returns for Speed Weeks, the track will add lane markers in all the 31-degree banked areas. "We've had some conversations with a few drivers and they've told us that would be helpful to them when they are three wide in a draft," Darby said Saturday. "The hash marks will give them some sort of a guide to understand how much room they have above and below them. In talking with the Speedway (Saturday) morning, they said they will probably paint those right before the stock cars start running in February." Darby said the double-yellow lines, which separate the racing surface from the out-of-bounds area for NASCAR races at Daytona, will not be moved from the apron to the track surface.(Daytona Beach News Journal)(1-23-2011)

Good move. Anything which will make the racing at Daytona and Talladega safer is fine with me. Unlike the double-yellow lines, these won't present any rule controversy (...yet, as long as NA__AR doesn't try and come up with some unneeded regulation concerning these proposed lines).
 
how would they they were there before?

Because it's my take on it.
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Yeah i thought just talladega had em before as far as plate tracks.
 
Daytona had lines on the track originally.

Everyone remembers this finish from the 1959 inaugural Daytona 500 with Lee Petty passing Johnny Beauchamp @ the line for the win.

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and another pic of Fireball Roberts @ that same race.

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More recently they did have a broken white line high in the turns probably just as a reference point for the drivers.

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