after Jr.'s comments last November about the dip at Texas Motor Speedway, Eddie Gossage went out and did his best to alleviate the problem.  Good job Dale and Eddie!!!

Earnhardt spoke in positive tones in November about Texas Motor Speedway being a fun track to race at, but also discussed the need to address the dip to enhance the racing.

"Texas is a fun racetrack," Earnhardt said in November. "We've had a lot of success here and it is a fun track so I'm glad it is in it [the Chase for the Nextel Cup]. It [the track surface] is starting to age a little bit and it is starting to move the grooves up a little bit so you can race side by side through the corners a bit. It's really starting to come into its own. The asphalt or the dirt underneath the asphalt has settled over the tunnel, which it does at every racetrack they build, but it seems to be a little more pronounced here. And that will hold this place back for a few years to come until they repair that. As far as being able to run two- and three-wide through that corner, it will hold it back a little bit."

The two-day process was done by Uretek ICR of Arlington, Texas. The method employed high-density special polymers to lift, realign, underseal and fill voids under the concrete slabs, which are resting directly on base soils. As the resin mixture expands, voids are filled and a controlled mold pressure is exerted on a limited area of the slab. Uretek uses multiple-pattern drilled injection locations to resupport and accurately realign the slab. The composite material quickly cures into a strong, stable and long-lasting replacement base material.

This process involves drilling roughly 15 to 20 half-inch holes in the area, inserting a three-eighths-inch copper tube through the asphalt and into the soil below in each hole, and then injecting a special structure urethane through the tubing. The urethane is expected to raise the different surfaces that exist between the track and the soil -- an 8-inch thick drainage mat, a 12-inch thick concrete slab and 4 inches of asphalt -- and help alleviate the dip.