Fuel "cool can"

[Ed Wright]

They do not want any water in the staging lanes. Most use ice before the staging lanes.
Go to Indy, watch what goes on just before the end of the staging lanes. Last time there, they parked me on the left side, maybe 50' before the end of the staging lanes. Lots of guys storing their chillers, ice & sprayers by my motor home. I felt very fortunate when the gentleman parked me there.
Dry Ice is all most will take up there. Last time there I had bags of crushed dry ice on my Intake. Ron Terrel still handed me my ***.

[Dave Gantz]

Other than a cool can, I was taught to dump 5 or 10 gallons of water through the system (In the upper hose, and out the therm housing, no stat), of a hot engine. (That was good until I got to the semi's and final's and they started rushing me.) It was a heads up or record thing, but I stubbornly did it even bracket racing, lol. That practice was also disallowed, I think mostly, also because of the water that could drip off the engine while staging, etc.