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Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: James Buchan on January 11, 2008, 03:16:37 PM: http://www.grandbendmotorplex.com/08-end-o...-of-racing.html (http://www.grandbendmotorplex.com/08-end-of-racing.html)

Wonder how true this is????
Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: Cameron on January 11, 2008, 09:15:41 PM: It's a non-issue. Racers just have to be creative, to get their leaded fuel ito the country. Or make their own.
Leaded fuels have been banned in Canada for ten years or more.
Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: Bruce on January 11, 2008, 11:56:41 PM: I don't believe it. We would have heard more about this law that he says will pass next month. Currently there's no law breaking for racers using leaded gas. It is allowed.
Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: Island bugs on January 12, 2008, 08:20:57 AM: Bruce
I wouldn't be so sure. In our industry (housing) this kind of sniping happens all the time. Didn't you read that they consulted the public last May for 4 weeks. Only 11 responses which no doubt indicates the rest of us are just fine with the changes.LOL
WE need to take this kind of news VERY seriously. Wayne
Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: silas on January 12, 2008, 12:18:44 PM: Quote
Or make their own.
i've got the bunsen burner and the beakers if you've got the dark, dingy basement. :P
Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: Brassmonkey on January 12, 2008, 11:00:05 PM: I guess you'll just have to go with a higher octain unleaded fuel or alc.
Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: thrasherbill on January 14, 2008, 11:24:06 PM: You guys are looking at this way to narrowly. Sure it may not affect the average street/strip car but it does affect the tracks you race at. What this means is that the tracks like Mission won't be able to run the big spectator drawing classes - Pro Mod, Pro Stock, Top Fuel or Nitro Funny Car. No big spectator classes means no revenue, means no track. Read the Canada Gazette link from the Grand Bend Racetrack article. It is real. Leaded fuels have been banned in Canada but there have been exemptions for use in airplanes, large trucks, farm equipment and competition vehicles. As of January 1, 2009 the competition vehicles exemption has been revoked. The part that kills me (no pun intended) is that the government has decided that the lead emissions pollution from the whopping 1.5% of leaded fuel use in Canada (drag racing) is more dangerous to the population than than the pollution caused by farm equipment dropping lead emissions directly into the soil our food is grown in.
Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: thrasherbill on January 23, 2008, 08:56:54 AM: Sign the petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/Snakepit/ (http://www.petitiononline.com/Snakepit/)
Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: OUTKAST on January 23, 2008, 11:10:56 AM: :rockon: Signed in Thrasher
Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: Trevor P on January 23, 2008, 03:56:03 PM: Quote
The part that kills me (no pun intended) is that the government has decided that the lead emissions pollution from the whopping 1.5% of leaded fuel use in Canada (drag racing) is more dangerous to the population than than the pollution caused by farm equipment dropping lead emissions directly into the soil our food is grown in.
This shows you how up to date and on top of this our gov't is. What farm equipment runs on leaded fuel these days?
I'm pretty sure farmer Joe's tractor doesn't burn VP. :rolleyes:
Title: Attn All Drag Racers!
Post by: Cameron on January 24, 2008, 08:19:27 AM: Quote
This shows you how up to date and on top of this our gov't is. What farm equipment runs on leaded fuel these days?
I'm pretty sure farmer Joe's tractor doesn't burn VP. :rolleyes:
I thought most farm equipment ran on diesel fuel. But if farmer Joe wants to convert to gasoline powered equipment, and for some reason race it around the field, he'll be happy knowing that VP does make unleaded race gasoline.