Gas vs Fuel
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Gas vs Fuel
Probably a newbie question. Can anyone enlighten me on the difference between gas and fuel in the categories? Is gas short for gasolene as in the US? Where does NOS fit in here?
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Dr Goggles
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at the pump
there are finer definitions but if you buy it as petrol( not ethanol added) from a servo it's gasoline....if it's something else...be it methanol, ethanol, , nitrous ,nitro,lpg, pistons or pig poo it's fuel. 
...few understand what I'm trying to do , but they vastly outnumber those who understand why..
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Greg Watters
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Re: at the pump
Dr Goggles wrote:there are finer definitions but if you buy it as petrol( not ethanol added) from a servo it's gasoline....if it's something else...be it methanol, ethanol, , nitrous ,nitro,lpg, pistons or pig poo it's fuel.
Does that mean i change classes 1/2 way through a run as i start burning pistons...
My interpretation (and i'm happy to be corrected) is Gasoline without performance enhancing additives such as oxygenated , mtbe , or similar is gas class.
anything else is fuel.
Gray areas are with the DC but as we have no way of testing its largely up to the racer .
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Dr Goggles
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Solid fuel
grumm441 wrote:Does that mean i change classes 1/2 way through a run as i start burning pistons...
Do we have a solid fuel class?
yeah, Watters vs Barnett...Watters going 4 to 3 Barnett 3 to 2........
....." a record today was set in the P/P/P ( blown)1350 class by Mr G watters running 196 mph on his 3/4 Suzuki GSX 1300R"
...few understand what I'm trying to do , but they vastly outnumber those who understand why..
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Don Hudson
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