Quote from scania :

It's a path. It changes when cars drive on the track.

sorr, but I want the technique name in real world...

It's the racing line where the rubber gets put down from the cars, not sure of the name, i'd just call it the racing line.

Hmmm... Rubber path / track?

I always thought that shaded areas such as this were there to give the added effect of a worn in surface on corners and things. I may well be wrong though. As for the proper name, id say racing line.

Yeah, racing line probably is the best word.

groove

Yes, racing groove / path

http://picasaweb.google.com/ho ... x2008#5197767080972433890

Apex.

Quote from Jek :

Apex.

Don't think so because apex is like turn top.Dont know how to say how to say that in english

The rubbered-in path is often called the racing groove, as someone already mentioned.

In trail riding it's called a berm. It's the path layed down by others, and it's both the quickest way around a corner, and also the grippiest. I'd call it a berm, or maybe the racing groove. I wouldn't call it a racing line, as the quickest line is not necessarily the racing line

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

In trail riding it's called a berm. It's the path layed down by others, and it's both the quickest way around a corner, and also the grippiest. I'd call it a berm, or maybe the racing groove. I wouldn't call it a racing line, as the quickest line is not necessarily the racing line

I never knew that! I thought that the racing line is the shortest possible course around the track, making it theoretically the fastest. I am however, an expert at being wrong!

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

In trail riding it's called a berm. It's the path layed down by others, and it's both the quickest way around a corner, and also the grippiest.

I thought a 'berm' was a long mound of dirt often found skirting the outside of a turn?

That's what I thought too, Gunn.

Isn't it the "dug out" section where others have cut a path?

of a berm i think of this:

I believe they are called 'ruts' or something dougie
Nah, a berm, at least over here, is a banking on the outside of a turn which riders use to get more speed up.. I think

Hmm, dunno so I was always taught to ride in the worn dug outs made by quads, and they were called berms...

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Hmm, dunno so I was always taught to ride in the worn dug outs made by quads, and they were called berms...

Well I guess they could be very small berms must be an Australian thing

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-berm.htm

There you go

Now back to painting my roof

YOU'RE GOIN TOO HIGH BOY STAY IN THE GROOVE! /Days Of Thunder Quote.

The groove, indicates the proper racing line in most cases.

Actually why is it called a racing line? It's rather a curve

Good point