Fuel Check What's the point???

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Originally Posted by JOE ZOOM

Nice post Ron

You know im not a guy who shows up on tuesday for a event that starts friday.. Most races im showing up saturday morning get one hit and im good to go.So i take off work on saturday tow 4hrs too race and the one and only run i make im dq for fuel...this is just stupid.....no fuel should ever fail unless it has been determined it has giving a racer some sort of an unfair advantage...........

joe mocci
m/sa 1424

I went to the Cordova Division 5 race on Saturday.One run and then into eliminations.Right after I teched in,I went to fuel check to check the fuel BEFORE the run.This is a good idea if you only have ONE qualifying run to help prevent a DQ.At least you have a little time to try and do something rather than failing after the run.(Fuel passed fine)

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

So the fuel check test is flawed? How is it that 99 cars can pass fuel check and 2 fail?

The 2 that fail have a problem, not the testing procedure.

I went to Brainerd with fuel that just passed fine a few days earlier at Cordova and the fuel was borderline.

I found this odd,so I asked how the other cars with Sunoco Purple were checking.I was told that out of 65 cars,I was the ONLY car running that fuel.

I just bought some new fuel jugs thinking maybe I have a problem there.If that doesn't work,then the problem is with Sunoco or the testing equipment.

When you have had success with a particular brand of fuel,you really don't like changing unless you have run out of options.

I'm almost out of options.