From the Marbles  Introducing the Air Titan, NASCAR’s new track
dryer  Nick Bromberg From The Marbles  View photo   The Air
Titan posing for a photo. (ISC)  If Speedweeks is delayed by
rain, NASCAR is planning that those delays are a fraction of
what they were last year. On Tuesday, the sanctioning body
introduced its new system to dry tracks called the Air Titan,
saying that the system can dry a track in considerably less time
than the jet dryers that have been in use.  NASCAR Senior VP of
Operations Steve O'Donnell said that the Air Titan eventually
can cut drying time up to 80 percent. How? We'll let him
explain:  "A quick description of how it works: We'll have
basically two sets of identical equipment on opposite sides of
the track that will move in the same direction and do one
complete pass of the racetrack, and the system basically works
by having compressors feed air at a high rate of speed through a
hose to the Air Titan modules, and the Air Titan is able to blow
air in narrow, highly pressurized sh