As Dan mentioned it's hard for a gas vendor to make any money at LSR events.
Therefore we don't have event gas and you will need to bring your own.
JB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Wennerberg" <jonw@up.net>
To: "'Dan Warner'" <dwarner@electrorent.com>; <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Cc: "'land speed'" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 2:16 PM
Subject: RE: gasoline procedures
> General question germane to the topic, although not necessarily to the
> addressees: Can I assume that if I plan to run a gas class at Maxton that
I
> should just bring my own drum of Nutec?
>
> Jon #436 1350 M/PS/G
> Marquette, Michigan
> (that's way up north)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Dan Warner
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 1:37 PM
> To: ddahlgren@snet.net
> Cc: land speed
> Subject: Re: gasoline procedures
>
>
> Dave & list,
>
> At the dry lakes Les Leggitt brings a gas trailer similar to the one you
see
> at Bonneville with a selection of ERC products. At the beginning of the
meet
> I take a sample of the 110 octane to use as a baseline gas. The entrants
are
> not required to use the ERC gas but, because it is available on the
lakebed
> this is what we use.
>
> When a gas class vehicle comes to impound a sample is taken from the tank
> and tested against the baseline with the dielectric tester. If the tank
> sample exceeds +/- 5 on the dial of the tester the gas is not approved. I
> have never seen a legal gas test at +/- 6 or so, the additives in the gas
> that allow a better burn rate will peg the meter to either the + or -
side.
>
> Now the question is - why are there no other vendors available? I believe
it
> is a matter of business. There is absolutly no money to be made at the
> lakebed. ERC supplies the gas as a service, incurring monetary losses at
> each event. Other vendors who have come to the lakebed to supply the
racers
> have found that there is no profit to be made. The expenses involved far
> exceed potential income. Vendors such as VP have tried to come on board at
> the lakebed with an eye on becoming the vendor at Bonneville but have
faded
> almost as quick as they arrive.
>
> Rick Gold and his staff at ERC have stood by the SCTA-BNI for several
years
> and we find this to be a good relationship for both the association and
the
> racer.
>
> DW
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