I believe it was mentioned in an earlier post but it was surprising that there didn’t seem to be a post-impact fire, which would doubtless have added to the casualty count. Was this a question of running minimum safe fuel to save weight or do these very highly tuned racing engines need a “special brew” to overcome detonation?
VP Fuels have one called “Air Race” & you’l see their blue drums all over the pits at Reno:
http://www.vpracingfuels.com/page469679.html
If that is the same stuff they used on Rare Bear in the past, the exhaust tastes like you’re sucking on a piece of metal if you walk behind it while it’s running. I seem to remember something about 8X the usual amount of Manganese to get the octane up.
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