Another stake in the heart

[SST55]

Local track has VP racing fuel on site, light blue, leaded, 107 octane. They are going to add a track surcharge raising the price to $9.00 a freakin gallon!!!!
You can buy fuel outside of the track but in the words of the head tech "expert" it might not pass the specific gravity tests so,,,,,,,,,

It's getting so you have to be a brazillionaire to run a hobby stock.

FWIW you can buy CAM-2 fuel 105 octane down the street for $5.90

 

[Mopardh9]

That's unreal $9.00/gal, think they are greedy much?

 

[speedwayphoto]

yea, it's like that everywhere....... At the local dirt tracks here, they sell Turbo Blue at the track, and it's lke 9 or 10 a gallon. It's really tough on the lil guys, espicially the 4 cylinder classes that are racing for like 200 bucks to win. By the time they buy pit passes, gas, and maybe a somethin to eat, they have to win to at best break even.
The really bad thing is for the Crate racers...... GM recommends using pump gas ( like 2.00 per galllon) for the crate motors..... the racing fuel is a bit rougher on the engines, yet tracks continue to require they buy their fuel...... even had an instance where at one track a driver won on pump fuel, but was thrown out because it failed inspection......had to be Turbo Blue.