How much fuel does NASCAR use?

Question

per car per race per season? people complain about high gas prices yet sit and watch cars drive endlessly in circles.....why?

Answer 1

"The average stock car gets between 4-6 mpg, let's assume 5 mpg per gallon for calculating purposes-- most of the races are 500 miles, there are a few that are 400 and a few that are 600, but we will again for calculating purposes say an average of 500 miles. That would be 100 gallons per car, 43 cars in each race, and 36 races per year... that gives you 154,800 gallons per year total.

These numbers would only include NASCAR Sprint Cup and only fuel used during the actual race. This would not include practice, qualifying, testing, or the other levels of NASCAR -- Nationwide which was once the Busch Series, NASCAR Craftsman Trucks, and the many levels below that on your local short tracks.

Interesting to note: NASCAR just made the switch recently from leaded to unleaded fuel in February 2007. IndyCar uses 100% ethanol and are also looking into biodiesel and other renewables.

Hope this answer was helpful.

Answer 2

They use a special type of gas..I forget the techical term for it but it originates from corn. I don't know why all cars don't use it to be honest.

Answer 3

Nascar uses leaded Sunoco racing gas 112 octane non oxygenated.

They experimented last season a couple times but never adopted unleaded.

They are currently looking into using E-85 which would start in the truck series if at all since Sunoco their fuel provider currently does not make a ethanol based racing fuel.

As far as how much fuel they consume, it does not really matter, as it is  millions of people sitting and watching 43 cars drive in circles, imagine if it were millions of people driving in circles with 43 people watching!

Answer 4

probably less than 10mpg

Answer 5

Just ONE U.S. city burns 15 times the amount of gas in ONE DAY than Nascar's top series uses in one full season.

Nascar uses Unleaded. I attended the first full race they used unleaded at. The races aren't endless, they know exactly how far away the finish line is.

All of the drivers combined in the city I live in, St. Louis Mo. the 13th largest city in the U.S., drive a total of 72,000,000 miles PER DAY. That's 504,000,000 miles driven PER WEEK!

I wouldn't worry about a 500 mile race on a Sunday afternoon. 43 cars combined is 21,500 total miles on a Sunday.

Answer 6

Its fun to watch. What about all the fuel every other professional sports teams use to get to and from games?? I guarantee baseball uses more than nascar.