Interesting set of posts about NASCAR fuel usage. Perhaps though the discussion is misdirected. The problem is not likley to be the left-hand turn only cars going endlessly around the track. More likely, it is the average 100,000 people driving to see 30 events each year. If they average 3 occupants per vehicle, that's 1,000,000 trips. At an average trip length of 25 miles (probably way too low), that's 25 million miles. I have been to one NASCAR race and my Honda Accord was way out of place in the SUV and pick-up truck covered parking lot so I'll guess average NASCAR fan fuel economy is about 15 MPG. That's about 2 million gallons right there. And that's just for Nextel series races. Add in the Busch and truck series. Plus fuel spent while idling in lines to get in and out.
Good things our armed forces are overseas protecting vital American interests in the Persian Gulf. Some day Iraq too can have NASCAR.
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Interesting set of posts about NASCAR fuel usage. Perhaps though the discussion is misdirected. The problem is not likley to be the left-hand turn only cars going endlessly around the track. More likely, it is the average 100,000 people driving to see 30 events each year. If they average 3 occupants per vehicle, that's 1,000,000 trips. At an average trip length of 25 miles (probably way too low), that's 25 million miles. I have been to one NASCAR race and my Honda Accord was way out of place in the SUV and pick-up truck covered parking lot so I'll guess average NASCAR fan fuel economy is about 15 MPG. That's about 2 million gallons right there. And that's just for Nextel series races. Add in the Busch and truck series. Plus fuel spent while idling in lines to get in and out.
Good things our armed forces are overseas protecting vital American interests in the Persian Gulf. Some day Iraq too can have NASCAR.