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We sponsor Tim Wilkersons Fuel Funny Car. I have seen that data before , it has been around a long time. Pretty accurate.
We burn 14 gallons in Nitro per 1000 ft pass, price varies , right now around $33 a gallon. The engines with the 2009 rules are making 8000 hp. They only run 1000 ft in the fuel cars now because they were running out of shutdown space at some tracks and they are trying to slow them down. They still do 290mph to 300mph.
We do collect about 22 sensor in the car to use between run, It is use to set clutch, timimg things like that. The concisson felt is incredible. It is an experience to be in the shop and see multiple engines being built. They are works of art. We took 13 engines on the west coast swing of Denver Seattle and Sonoma and still sent some back to the machine shop for rebuild. In 13 years of prfessional racing Tim has only run 1 pass without rebuilding the engine. We have 50 to 90 minutes to completely rebuld the car between rounds. This year we run 5 cluthes in the clutch packs and they pretty much fall out after each run.