"Zerofret" (zerofret)
12/22/2014 at 20:21 • Filed to: None
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"Zerofret" (zerofret)
12/22/2014 at 20:21 • Filed to: None | 3
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My dad works for a company that has several sub businesses within it. A medical holdings company, restaurant business, and an automotive restoration/custom shop. His boss is a multi-millionare who's a pretty big car guy, American cars specifically. He wants nothing to do with anything foreign.
So, at today's installment of Secret Santa, one of my dad's co-workers who had his boss gave him a block of asphalt, a framed picture of COTA, and a die-cast F1 car. According to my dad, his boss looked at the entire array of gifts in a way that was obvious he had no clue what it was. He didn't know what COTA was (i'm still trying to figure that one out), he couldn't care less about the f1 car because it's too european for his tastes (he's a NASCAR guy), and he thought the block of asphalt was a joke. It wasn't.
See, the lady who gave him the block of asphalt is good friends with one of the engineers who helped design COTA. He took two blocks of asphalt during the production of the track, and the big wigs at COTA were NOT happy with him. But somehow, he got away with only two. One he kept for himself, and one he gave to this lady my dad works with. So she thought she'd give it to her boss as a secret santa gift.
So, he had no idea what any of it was and he really didn't care. I told my dad to ask him tomorrow how much he'd be willing to part with it. Fingers crossed that he still doesn't know what it is.
Have two pics I took at this years USGP:
Clown Shoe Pilot
> Zerofret
12/22/2014 at 20:33 |
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I have 4 track cores in my garage. I picked about 10 out of a trash pile during construction and I've given several as gifts to other car nerds.
MooseKnuckles
> Zerofret
12/22/2014 at 20:34 |
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Why would they care if he took asphalt, as an engineer, his lab or a consultant they've contracted would take samples for testing, most cases it is just thrown out when done but keeping it as a work trophy shouldn't matter. Weird they would be strict about asphalt, it's not like it's a proprietary magic substance.
I can see where your dad's boss is coming from, I don't really give a rats ass about racing, motor sports in terms of the engineering and technology interests me more.
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Zerofret
> MooseKnuckles
12/22/2014 at 20:36 |
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According to my dad's co-worker they were pretty pissed (as strange as it seems). I just think it would go really well on the shelf in my office at work next to some of my F1 posters :)
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> MooseKnuckles
12/22/2014 at 20:41 |
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It's my experience that indeed, nobody gives a shit about the cores. During construction, there were a LOT of cores taken for testing. There were even more that were cut out of the track that didn't need to be sent to the lab and ended up in big piles to go to the dump. That's where I got all mine.
tromoly
> Zerofret
12/22/2014 at 21:02 |
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Meh, it's just pavement. Then again I've ground down some of the pavement at the track I used to work at with a 7-1/2" angle grinder during an event, so my perspective is probably skewed.
FalconHoon
> tromoly
12/22/2014 at 21:30 |
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Agreed, unless it has been raced on (like maybe it has part of a skid mark where someone famous did something cool) it's just pavement.
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tromoly
> FalconHoon
12/22/2014 at 21:33 |
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I was about to write a review disclaiming what you said, but I stopped because my viewpoint has been skewed from working at a racing facility for a while.
Getting a piece of pavement from a race track is a neat thing for those who are into racing memorabilia, I can agree with you on that.
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FalconHoon
> tromoly
12/22/2014 at 21:37 |
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Is there anything special about it as opposed to street bitumen?
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tromoly
> FalconHoon
12/22/2014 at 21:44 |
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I was never involved with any track resurfacing, I imagine that the layers of material are different/thicker so that the track doesn't groove out over time from wheel traffic like you see on older roads. I can't say for certain though.