Sunoco "Going the Distance"

AMA and Sunoco put out a press release yesterday saying that they were putting up $15,000 in contingency.

Good. Great. Grand. Wonderful.

So we have 70-80 guys a weekend, that HAVE to run Sunoco Supreme 112. Prices I've been told vary from $7.75 a gallon ($39/5gal) to $72 for a sealed 5 gallon can. Like I said before, and I still believe. We shouldn't be running a spec fuel if the spec fuel isn't going to be supplied at the race track by the distributor. This is too much of a cluster. You know have people who are going to a distributor, having 5 gallons of gas pumped into a previously used can (that very well could be contaminated) being dumped into a gas tank (that if not properly cleaned out can contaminate fuel as well). There is too many variables for one of the series that is the most strict on fuel that I know of in the motorcycle world.

For Example in 20010 I rode Mike Boughner's 450 Honda at the Springfield TT. We used a sealed can of VP C12. After the main event it tested legal. It went home, sat in Mike's garage untouched until we showed up for Gas City. Going out for the first practice that gas in the tank (that tested legal at Springfield) was now illegal. Had the gas can checked and it was now contaminated (at least to the point of being outside of the allowable margins). We had to buy another tank of gas. That was a sealed can of C12 and a bike that had been flushed with C12 before running it. Now we add a bunch of variables for fuel to go bad. This is going to work out awesome for Sunoco and Jared Mees (who will be selling fuel at the track for $72 a can) when someone's gas fails and they have to scramble for a quick 5 gallons.

Outside of that, we're not giving contingency to 8 people. The top 4 in Pro Singles and the top 4 Experts based on the amount of mileage they did on the race track. Tie breakers to go by wins, then points. So just a real clever way of saying the top 4 in points. Once again, EVERYBODY is paying and only the top 4 are getting any sort of cutback for it.

The spec fuel is bullshit. What if I just want to run some damned premium pump gas like I did in 2008. Go back to have's and have not's. At least we're not all paying so that the have's have more...