Hey Liv! How have you been? Hope good for the whole family. As for your OP, yes, caution speeds are based on the individual tracks themselves, as has been previously stated. Most of your super speedway tracks with steep banking have higher speeds to keep them on the track. Daytona International Speedway, where I used to live, has one of the highest banking along-side of Talladega. This requires the cars to have caution speeds that rival intersate highways at times. As was said, gravity will pull a car downward on a high-banked track, this requires that car to travel at a specific speed to maintain track grip. Daytona for example has a banking that if any vehicle was traveling slower than 55 MPH, it would actually slide down to the bottom, so caution speeds there are much higher. It doesnt look like too much when you are looking at it on the TV, but if you actually stood at the base of the track, and looked upward, the top of the track is 2 stories high!
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