Southern New Mexico Speedway

Tonight's setup at Southern New Mexico Speedway

Southern New Mexico Speedway is a 3/8-mile clay oval in Las Cruces, NM. On dirt, three numbers decide your night: density altitude (how much power the air gives you — shown live above), stagger and cross weight (how hard the car turns left), and where the track surface sits in its dry-down. Nail those for tonight's conditions and you are racing, not guessing.

Density altitude at Southern New Mexico Speedway

As temperature, humidity and barometric pressure shift across a race night near Las Cruces, the density altitude above moves with them — and your jetting and tire pressure should follow. Most weather apps show sea-level-corrected pressure, which gives the wrong DA; racer.wiki uses uncorrected station pressure for the real number. Read the full density altitude guide →

Reading the surface at Southern New Mexico Speedway

A clay oval like Southern New Mexico Speedway changes from tacky to dry-slick as moisture evaporates through the night. As it slicks off the car frees up and the fast line moves. How to read the dirt → · Stagger & cross weight →

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