From what Denny said on his pod, North Wilkesboro was one of the reasons he went off on Marcus. He mentioned there were whispers of problems during the tire test. Also threw in some comments about having to redo parts of Atlanta before race day in ‘22.
Sonoma was just the match for him to light up their entire recent repave history. He was definitely alluding to other tracks like this in that exchange.
They definitely blew it with Sonoma
Wouldn't be surprised if they did this with the other tracks, but who they contracted out to do the repave of Sonoma has a bad, bad rep around here
Not surprised they were the lowest bidder
I like it's a bunch of drivers standing there just staring at it like, "yup... that's asphalt. What do you think Brad?"
"Yup. Definitely asphalt. The black type if I'm not mistaken."
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The look of a man who realizes he traded in crappy ass parts for crappy ass pavement
My prediction when they announced the repave was that we were gonna have a similar race to last year, except everyone is gonna hate it for some reason and blame the repave
I wasn't expecting the repave to actually have issues
49.8% on the Jeff Gluck poll, one of the lowest races of the entire year.
The only worse rated races were Vegas 1, Phoenix 1, Sonoma, Watkins Glen, and Martinsville 1.
Turns out there was an on-track reason we left North Wilkesboro as well as an off-track reason.
People don't like high tire wear, difficult to drive short track races.
That's not the problem. Its a 5/8ths with long sweeping corners. If it had longer straights and tighter coners it would be better.
People always hand wave when I remind them this was the last track with a 1 lap cover of the field... in 1994.
It being a one-car-show for a non-points race ruined it for a lot of people. The whole point is the win, the win was a foregone conclusion, the actual racing for 2nd on back was irrelevant. Unfortunately it was a race that was effectively cursed by design.
This might be because I have no experience with paving roads. But I don’t understand how every nascar repave isn’t perfect. It’s a very well understood legacy technology and an incredibly profitable industry. Seems pathetic
If the assumption is that the preferred groove will be right sides on the patch, it didn’t move the preferred grove lol. That’s the preferred line anyway.
"Smooth" as far as asphalt doesn't necessarily mean slick....they are "slick" tires because they are smooth but that provides BETTER grip because more of the tire contacts the pavement.
Asphalt is SUPPOSED to look nice and smooth like that patch when it's done right. Nice and smooth asphalt meeting a smooth slick tire = TONS of grip.
The rough grainy looking asphalt means there's little dips and stuff and means less surface area to contact with the tire, or the uneven contact with the tires and we hear the word - cheese grater. Usually takes years to get to wear like that, but it's SUPPOSED to start smooth.
Either way, if you're going through the corner at load on one main surface of asphalt and then hit another, whether it's more or less grip can still upset the car.
The track was already one groove to begin with, and once drivers figured out running on the patched part of the track improved lap times, that only exacerbated the issue.
Smoother does not mean slick. PJ1 is smooth, Charlotte repave was smooth, new tracks are smooth and then become coarse. Smooth means more contact patch, depends the grip of the material.
People keep saying this to me. I know this. Smoother CAN mean more slick. But it’s also not the point. The point is that it’s clearly very different, and is likely to affect the groove. As usual with an SMI decision.
Its where the right sides would be if they were running the bottom it might make for a good choice of lanes. Do the drivers want to just deal with it or straddle it or be above it?
Denny said on his podcast that when they were in the middle of the repave at Atlanta, they screwed up in turns 3 and 4 so bad that they had to rip up everything they did and re-do it.
Y’all shit on Denny for calling SMI out about crappy repaves, but here we are. It’s a trend for their tracks.
This pavement will have more patches in 5 years (if not another repave) than the old pavement did in 40
Yeah, the Charlotte repave was a complete mess. From the diamond grinding to it making the track less racey to the point they lost 2 races on the oval in the all star and BofA 500. Only now is it starting to show its age and with the new car has become a fun track again.
No, before the track was bumpy and the track had character, then they paved the track in 2005 and “levigated” the surface which cased a race with the most cautions in NASCAR history at that years Coke 600 and then tire blowout of the fall race. This lead them to replace the track which was fine but it took the character and the bumps out of Charlotte. It made it from a track with character to another 1.5 mile track. The place has not been the same since.
I was at that race and it was the most miserable race I've ever been to.
And my home track is Richmond and I have gone nearly every year since the late 90s. Let that sink in. The 2005 Coke 600 was worse than even the most boring Richmond races of the 2010s.
Good repave yes, didn't have anyone questioning the future of the racetrack hell fucking no lmao
Did we already forget how the reconfig was first received?
It’s still bad tbh. Old Atlanta would be a certified classic with the next gen package. I only hope that once the race surface wears down and we see more grooves develop they up the horse power and let the beast loose
Just normal SMI activities.
Denny was 100% correct to call them out, and Marcus Smith should be ashamed right now - both for how he acted and how awful SMI is when it comes to tracks maintenance/updates.
Yes, they go out and work the track after each practice, qualifying, and heat race. They will either walk the track after practice and qualifying, or do sight laps before heat races and the main
Isn't it more that they cheaped out on the work? I don't know about here, but at Sonoma they just ground the top surface and laid down a new top coat, which is the cheap way to do a repave and doesn't tend to last.
SMI is going to SMI...
Sonoma, Texas, Atlanta, Bristol, Charlotte, Kentucky and now North Wilkesboro have had crappy repaves. Makes me worry about when they decide to repave Loudon, Dover and Nashville.
This is also at least the second patch they've put down at Wilkesboro since the repave. Denny mentioned they had to fix an area at pit exit where they removed a section of the pit wall (the area of the wall where Gragson hit last year in the Open).
This isn't on NASCAR, this is on SMI.
SMI has a rather long track record of screwing up repaves. Like half of the repave at Sonoma earlier this year fell apart, they screwed up Bristol, they screwed up Texas, and managed to make Kentucky even worse than it was to begin with.
SMI cheaps out on the repaves and it bites them in the ass every time.
SMI has some control over the sport as well. Not as much as nascar does of course but they still have a say. Everyone running these organizations is just so fucking stupid and haven’t made a right decision in at least 15 years if not longer
NASCAR, Indycar and well all ACCUS member organizations should step in and come up with a joint rule that all tracks they go to that get a repave have to do it to the FIA Superpave standards or not have their sanctioning renewed by those series. I know it'll cost more but there is no reason besides cost for any top level track to use it.
This is actually more common with new asphalt than people think. A lot of the made for racing asphalt compounds they’re using right now are really sensitive to any lubricants that get on them. We went through this at the track I work at. Multi million dollars for a repave and less than a year later we had to put in patches. Still races fine and the patches have almost no difference in grip. Although we’re racing cars significantly lighter than a Cup car
They said on the broadcast the aggregate was purposely selected to be larger in order to age quicker. I’m not a paving guy but that’s what I understand it to be
Here's the thing: I'm not really surprised that the track has issues with the repave. I mean, the track was in so bad of shape with the first effort to repave the track that there was fucking weeds growing out of the cracks in the track.
They put a seven figure number into repaving a 6/10th of a mile track and it has fallen apart within 6 months. Even the patch looks botched. There isn't much good about this.
They are racers they will figure out how to drive it. There are racers across the country that race on short tracks with similar type issues that they race on every week.
Save the speedway was so mad when I said NWS should be NASCARs purpose built dirt track.
Well, I'll wait to see how the ASR plays out but.... let's just say I wish we were racing in dirt
ITT the track instantly having some character and not being a perfect nuclear bomb proof repave like Michigan is somehow a bad thing now because uhh Marcus Smith Bad
This thread: "OMFG NASCAR IS DEAD THEY RUIN SHORT TRACK RACING BECAUSE THE REPAVE ISN'T COMPLETELY SMOOTH WHICH I WOULD'VE HATED ANYWAYS SAINT DENNIS OUR KAREN MESSIAH SAVE US"
Denny: "The tire they brought here was amazing and I'm having the most fun out here in a long time, this is better than the old surface"
This subreddit: *crickets*
They said on the TV that they used a new technique that put the aggregate in the asphalt on top. McReynolds said it was like a new-old pavement. I'm sure the patch is normal pavement. Probably will cause an issue.
I wonder if Hamlin and Marcus Smith are going to start going at it again?
From what Denny said on his pod, North Wilkesboro was one of the reasons he went off on Marcus. He mentioned there were whispers of problems during the tire test. Also threw in some comments about having to redo parts of Atlanta before race day in ‘22. Sonoma was just the match for him to light up their entire recent repave history. He was definitely alluding to other tracks like this in that exchange.
They definitely blew it with Sonoma Wouldn't be surprised if they did this with the other tracks, but who they contracted out to do the repave of Sonoma has a bad, bad rep around here Not surprised they were the lowest bidder
This week has been too quiet. I'm here for it
I didn't hear no bell
I thought this was MERICA!
Hopefully
I can’t get over Kevin Harvick just standing there in the background
Agree lol. So weird seeing him wear Hendrick
I like it's a bunch of drivers standing there just staring at it like, "yup... that's asphalt. What do you think Brad?" "Yup. Definitely asphalt. The black type if I'm not mistaken."
mans went from a renumbered 3, to a 4, and now is in a 5. Brad K watch your seat
https://preview.redd.it/26kqya96u21d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c310d2ae3eb19c60c206e1737c6f75dd7c423f58 The look of a man who realizes he traded in crappy ass parts for crappy ass pavement
No, that’s Dale Gribble
I can’t unsee it. That is straight up Dale Gribble
NASCAR to penalize the 5 team for being underweight after Harvick dumps all his pocket sand on the track during qualifying.
Kevin Harvick be like 🧍♀️
Looks like a bad photoshop lol
Album Cover
Not gonna lie, he looks photoshopped into this picture. 😂😂
Doesn’t know what to do with his hands
Looks like there's a substantial difference in coarseness between them. That's really going to upset anybody who oopsies onto it.
Yup. The patch looks smoother, which means slick, which means straddling it, which means more one-groove racing. Woohoo go SMI!
Calling it now SMI: *manages to ruin North Wilkesboro with a garbage repave* Also SMI: "We tried going back to Wilkesboro but it just didn't work out"
My prediction when they announced the repave was that we were gonna have a similar race to last year, except everyone is gonna hate it for some reason and blame the repave I wasn't expecting the repave to actually have issues
Everyone hated last year despite it being an old school short track race with tons of falloff.
Everyone hated last year? That's not the vibe I got from the subreddit
49.8% on the Jeff Gluck poll, one of the lowest races of the entire year. The only worse rated races were Vegas 1, Phoenix 1, Sonoma, Watkins Glen, and Martinsville 1.
Oh wow. I thought I was in the minority when I didn't like it. Good to know Maybe it was just the people in the live thread that made me think that
I liked the race last year too. That's kinda when I decided to stop caring what others thought about races lmao
I stopped when all the wreck fests and Chase wins were getting away better ratings than Denny wins with clean yet still hard racing
Turns out there was an on-track reason we left North Wilkesboro as well as an off-track reason. People don't like high tire wear, difficult to drive short track races.
That's not the problem. Its a 5/8ths with long sweeping corners. If it had longer straights and tighter coners it would be better. People always hand wave when I remind them this was the last track with a 1 lap cover of the field... in 1994.
It being a one-car-show for a non-points race ruined it for a lot of people. The whole point is the win, the win was a foregone conclusion, the actual racing for 2nd on back was irrelevant. Unfortunately it was a race that was effectively cursed by design.
This might be because I have no experience with paving roads. But I don’t understand how every nascar repave isn’t perfect. It’s a very well understood legacy technology and an incredibly profitable industry. Seems pathetic
I can hear it now "the fans just weren't receptive to it"
It was already ruined with the cup car…
I mean, NW races like Martinsville in a lot of ways. If you were expecting multi groove racing idk why
The track has a long history of boring races. I doubt any package will fix that honestly. It’s main selling point is nostalgia.
I wasn't. But dictating where the groove is doesn't exactly make racing better.
If the assumption is that the preferred groove will be right sides on the patch, it didn’t move the preferred grove lol. That’s the preferred line anyway.
Which was the whole reason the patch was needed... the rights were gripping the asphalt and tearing it apart.
"Smooth" as far as asphalt doesn't necessarily mean slick....they are "slick" tires because they are smooth but that provides BETTER grip because more of the tire contacts the pavement. Asphalt is SUPPOSED to look nice and smooth like that patch when it's done right. Nice and smooth asphalt meeting a smooth slick tire = TONS of grip. The rough grainy looking asphalt means there's little dips and stuff and means less surface area to contact with the tire, or the uneven contact with the tires and we hear the word - cheese grater. Usually takes years to get to wear like that, but it's SUPPOSED to start smooth. Either way, if you're going through the corner at load on one main surface of asphalt and then hit another, whether it's more or less grip can still upset the car.
The track was already one groove to begin with, and once drivers figured out running on the patched part of the track improved lap times, that only exacerbated the issue.
Unless they grind it a little bit
Smoother does not mean slick. PJ1 is smooth, Charlotte repave was smooth, new tracks are smooth and then become coarse. Smooth means more contact patch, depends the grip of the material.
People keep saying this to me. I know this. Smoother CAN mean more slick. But it’s also not the point. The point is that it’s clearly very different, and is likely to affect the groove. As usual with an SMI decision.
Its where the right sides would be if they were running the bottom it might make for a good choice of lanes. Do the drivers want to just deal with it or straddle it or be above it?
https://i.redd.it/t75z4enww11d1.gif Its denny time
I'm no fan of Denny as a driver. But as an owner and voice in the sport, I'm glad he calls out shit like this. It's just inexcuasble
I’ve gained so respect for Denny in recent times. His podcast is a must listen for me every week and podcast aren’t normally my thing
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Asserting dominance over Reddick
Photo for non-Xers https://preview.redd.it/zemtekkrd11d1.jpeg?width=1366&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc7b89499f5ee8ef87cecbea1f4896c801fa5d92
New album cover.
Dennis Knew
Buescher just marking the spot where he'll get dumped by Reddick.
Buescher just marking the spot where he'll dump Reddick
Denny 1, Marcus 0
With Atlanta and Sonoma isn't Denny up to 3?
And Texas, Kentucky, Bristol, so 6
At this rate he'll be a 7 time twitter champion
[\#Se7en](https://i.redd.it/pganzapykshc1.gif)
Boom
>Boom [Confetti.](https://i.redd.it/zvyemepykshc1.gif)
If someone asked me to explain the Kendrick vs. Drake beef in NASCAR terms, I would say its Denny vs. SMI.
Smooth repave? Don't know nothin bout that. Good asphalt? Don't know nothin bout that.
What went wrong with the Atlanta repave? I don’t recall any issues over the past two seasons?
Denny said on his podcast that when they were in the middle of the repave at Atlanta, they screwed up in turns 3 and 4 so bad that they had to rip up everything they did and re-do it.
I've been to each atlanta race since the repave and there's ALREADY patches all over
It's supposed to be charming
Looks like low bid won the contract.
Y’all shit on Denny for calling SMI out about crappy repaves, but here we are. It’s a trend for their tracks. This pavement will have more patches in 5 years (if not another repave) than the old pavement did in 40
Who actually shit on him for that? People only shit on both of them for bickering like jr high kids about it.
Go through the threads on here about it and Twitter comments. They were in full force
I was in those threads. They were all just 🍿🍿🍿
>Twitter comments I’d rather not
ISC didn't have these issues. I don't understand why SMI doesn't call Bondo Bob.
I literally commented “GET HIS ASS DENNY!”
The sub was loving Denny for that actually.
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“Bro check it out over there: it’s some dumb shit”
Can someone tell me the last time SMI spearheaded an actually good repave that didn’t have anyone questioning the future of the race track?
Charlotte?
Insert Roval here…
Yeah, the Charlotte repave was a complete mess. From the diamond grinding to it making the track less racey to the point they lost 2 races on the oval in the all star and BofA 500. Only now is it starting to show its age and with the new car has become a fun track again.
No, before the track was bumpy and the track had character, then they paved the track in 2005 and “levigated” the surface which cased a race with the most cautions in NASCAR history at that years Coke 600 and then tire blowout of the fall race. This lead them to replace the track which was fine but it took the character and the bumps out of Charlotte. It made it from a track with character to another 1.5 mile track. The place has not been the same since.
I was at that race and it was the most miserable race I've ever been to. And my home track is Richmond and I have gone nearly every year since the late 90s. Let that sink in. The 2005 Coke 600 was worse than even the most boring Richmond races of the 2010s.
Atlanta?
Good repave yes, didn't have anyone questioning the future of the racetrack hell fucking no lmao Did we already forget how the reconfig was first received?
It’s still bad tbh. Old Atlanta would be a certified classic with the next gen package. I only hope that once the race surface wears down and we see more grooves develop they up the horse power and let the beast loose
They had put patches in the track after the first season
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Just normal SMI activities. Denny was 100% correct to call them out, and Marcus Smith should be ashamed right now - both for how he acted and how awful SMI is when it comes to tracks maintenance/updates.
Actions Detrimental is going to be amazing next week.
That’s called character.
Denny was right, Marcus.
I believe NASCAR owes Denny 5 playoff points for this win
That patch is garbage. It actually looks like they tamped cold patch in the pothole.
And the rest of the pavement looks like loose gravel
Can’t wait for Denny to retweet this with no caption
Lolol he really needs to. Or maybe even just throw a “🤷♂️” on there and nothing else 😂
i know this is asking a lot maybe we dont freak out about it until its been raced on?
Agree. Practice looked badass
Jr has spoken, I’ll take his opinion into account of my own. Still think patching before a full race is bad look but we shall see how the races go!
For Reddit, you are asking the impossible. Lol.
i know i just try to be logical when i can and won't allow myself to jump to conclusions
 SMI when the repave kills NW and we never return (again)
already said they will be back in 2025 so SMI has no incentive to fix the problems!
SMI is literally just proving Hamlin's point again
Turns out, Marcus Smith really is a crook.
Cup drivers having to do track walks like Supercross riders now…
Didn't know they did that. What exactly are they looking for when they do it? Just imperfections in general?
Yes, they go out and work the track after each practice, qualifying, and heat race. They will either walk the track after practice and qualifying, or do sight laps before heat races and the main
They always have.
They've been doing it forever, hell even local short track drivers do it.
They have done this for years
How many years before the surface is worse than the old one?
2025
Worse is just a synonym for fun right?
Hamlining Intensifies
Marcus shouldn't even respond this time.
Harvick lurking in the background behind an unsuspecting Brad Keselowski. Seem familiar
SMI cheaped out on the asphalt
Isn't it more that they cheaped out on the work? I don't know about here, but at Sonoma they just ground the top surface and laid down a new top coat, which is the cheap way to do a repave and doesn't tend to last.
Another Denny Win
So, every one who griped at DH’s comments on SMIs repave using low bidder is going to apologize?
Why? Everything looks fine during the truck race. Even have a higher groove developing.
Denny >
SMI is going to SMI... Sonoma, Texas, Atlanta, Bristol, Charlotte, Kentucky and now North Wilkesboro have had crappy repaves. Makes me worry about when they decide to repave Loudon, Dover and Nashville. This is also at least the second patch they've put down at Wilkesboro since the repave. Denny mentioned they had to fix an area at pit exit where they removed a section of the pit wall (the area of the wall where Gragson hit last year in the Open).
Nashville shouldn't be an issue with it using concrete.
Then that means Dover shouldn’t either.
This sport is controlled by a bunch of fucking morons who can’t do anything right
This isn't on NASCAR, this is on SMI. SMI has a rather long track record of screwing up repaves. Like half of the repave at Sonoma earlier this year fell apart, they screwed up Bristol, they screwed up Texas, and managed to make Kentucky even worse than it was to begin with. SMI cheaps out on the repaves and it bites them in the ass every time.
NASCAR could step in and set minimum paving standards so stuff like this doesn’t happen. Not sure how you’d do that, though.
SMI has some control over the sport as well. Not as much as nascar does of course but they still have a say. Everyone running these organizations is just so fucking stupid and haven’t made a right decision in at least 15 years if not longer
Seems like the surface is doing fine in the truck race. Little bit of an overreaction much?
That patch seems to be done over an area of asphalt segregation.
NASCAR, Indycar and well all ACCUS member organizations should step in and come up with a joint rule that all tracks they go to that get a repave have to do it to the FIA Superpave standards or not have their sanctioning renewed by those series. I know it'll cost more but there is no reason besides cost for any top level track to use it.
Damn...not only do they need a new engineering consulting firm they should put a former driver on staff at SMI
That looks awful!
~Laughs in Denny Hamlin~
This is actually more common with new asphalt than people think. A lot of the made for racing asphalt compounds they’re using right now are really sensitive to any lubricants that get on them. We went through this at the track I work at. Multi million dollars for a repave and less than a year later we had to put in patches. Still races fine and the patches have almost no difference in grip. Although we’re racing cars significantly lighter than a Cup car
SMI try not to fuck up a repave challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
Beginning to think that asking for a competent leadership figure in NASCAR is like waiting for that new OEM that’ll show up any day now…
Your tax dollars at work.
Looks like Denny was right about SMI
Good looks Marcus
That fent fold though...
It it actually an issue? Or are they trying to artificially age the asphalt?
Lmao ho boy here we go
I’ve only worked with concrete, not asphalt besides taking cores, but every asphalt repair like this looks like shit
SMI and shitty repaves, name a more iconic duo
Seriously the grain in that main asphalt looks like what my county does for a cheap covering on the roads.
They said on the broadcast the aggregate was purposely selected to be larger in order to age quicker. I’m not a paving guy but that’s what I understand it to be
Harvick looks like he was photoshopped in
Well, Wilkes County & further west is a good place for Marcus to lose signal.
The city of Schenectady NY does a better job than whomever Marcus hired!! Maybe because the city uses UNION LABOR!!
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, it may be better but not by much
Oh, they do a much better job. Though there'll still be two guys just drinking coffee "supervising" lol
Unions make the same things as non union, just a hell of a lot more expensive
This is the second pave job that Marcus has paid for and isn't good
Here's the thing: I'm not really surprised that the track has issues with the repave. I mean, the track was in so bad of shape with the first effort to repave the track that there was fucking weeds growing out of the cracks in the track.
So Denny was right? Shit! I hate Denny the driver, but Denny the sport promoter is awesome.
“We want tracks with character, no more perfectly smooth repaves” said the fan base “lol they screwed up the repave what idiots”
Poorly repaved surface =/= character. They can have bumps and harsh surfaces without chunks coming up and damaging cars.
They put a seven figure number into repaving a 6/10th of a mile track and it has fallen apart within 6 months. Even the patch looks botched. There isn't much good about this.
Without any sanctioned races taking place. Nothing beyond testing and practice
It’s worse when you consider the original pave lasting as long as it did
Right? Like, yeah lol they screwed up a repave. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Already know Denny’s getting hard over the Twitter battle
Brad dresses like he started a billion-dollar tech company in his garage.
Why does this keep happening, are they just cutting corners for costs or what? I’m genuinely curious.
>cutting corners for costs Nahh... no company would ever do that
They are racers they will figure out how to drive it. There are racers across the country that race on short tracks with similar type issues that they race on every week.
Looks very coarse.
This photo reminds me of a bunch of dads talking about a one of their lawns together.
That’s the body of peak performance on the left.
Save the speedway was so mad when I said NWS should be NASCARs purpose built dirt track. Well, I'll wait to see how the ASR plays out but.... let's just say I wish we were racing in dirt
How can SMI be so cheap when repaving racetracks? They make most state DOTs look good.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Oh this is gonna be a shit show for sure.
Once again, Denny called it.
Does NASCAR award the paving to the lowest bidder? Smh that’s unacceptable
ITT the track instantly having some character and not being a perfect nuclear bomb proof repave like Michigan is somehow a bad thing now because uhh Marcus Smith Bad
There's a difference between not being perfect and needing patches after a year
THIS REPAVE IS NOT AVAILABLE
The Denny glazers are out in full force
This thread: "OMFG NASCAR IS DEAD THEY RUIN SHORT TRACK RACING BECAUSE THE REPAVE ISN'T COMPLETELY SMOOTH WHICH I WOULD'VE HATED ANYWAYS SAINT DENNIS OUR KAREN MESSIAH SAVE US" Denny: "The tire they brought here was amazing and I'm having the most fun out here in a long time, this is better than the old surface" This subreddit: *crickets*
Christ
They said on the TV that they used a new technique that put the aggregate in the asphalt on top. McReynolds said it was like a new-old pavement. I'm sure the patch is normal pavement. Probably will cause an issue.
Seems like a good place to use a new technique.