At the runoffs this year, the SRFs were required to run one of the track-available race gas types as a "spec gas".

One competitor (and friend) had his qualifying time pulled after a random sampling picked up signs of what I happen to know was the normal pump unleaded that he had previously run. He apparently made the mistake of failing to completely flush the system - he ran it low and refilled with the new stuff.

The point here being that if the new rule is essentially a multiple choice version of the Runoffs SRF spec fuel, then even running cheap pump gas on a test day will risk a DSQ.

I think that there are some real problems out there with expensive "rocket fuel" race gases, but worry that a simple solution will triple our fuel bills - perhaps unnecessarily.

Al Seim
www.actdigital.com