06-03-2008, 09:08 PM
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At Small Tracks, High Fuel Prices Put Racers in a Pinch
At Small Tracks, High Fuel Prices Put Racers in a Pinch
By JOHN BRANCH: NY Times.com
Published: June 3, 2008
NEW EGYPT, N.J. — The cost of high-octane fuel for the racecars is up to $8.25 a gallon. And that is not the worst of it.
iMost racers at a track like New Egypt Speedway are not supported by large sponsors; they do their own work on their cars.
The truck-and-trailer rigs that log long miles to haul the cars to tracks generally have miles-to-the-gallon averages in the single digits. And with diesel costing roughly $5 a gallon, about double what it was a year ago, the escalating price of fuel is altering the already skimpy economics of lower-tier racing, the type that takes place on the half-mile dirt oval at New Egypt Speedway and at most tracks across the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/sp...html?th&emc=th
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