“These cars only get around 5 miles per gallon and with 40 cars or so in most races they will burn through about 150 gallons per car or 6,000 gallons for the field. As I was driving on Highway 80 to a meeting, one of those customized race car transporters zoomed past heading up to Sonoma's Infineon Raceway for this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. It’s a different fuel mix from what you put in your car but for comparison sake at $4 a gallon the teams would spend about $24,000 bucks for this weekend's race. Note: NASCAR is lucky to have Sunoco as the official fuel supplier I called Infineon Raceway president Steve Page, a former A’s colleague, to answer some of my non-gearhead questions. 65 I started thinking about what the fuel bill was going to be during the Toyota Save Mart 350 on Sunday.
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