Topic: GingerMan fueling
Hey all,
My team is going to be racing at gingerman in a few weeks, for the second time. From our experience last year, fueling trackside gets expensive, and driving into town to refill 5gal cans every stop or two gets to be a bit difficult. With some quick calculation, it looks like it may be economical to have a fuel drum trackside (an idea we got at a race earlier this year at autobahn). Does anyone know if gingerman allows that? If so: has anyone done it before?
I figure we've got three options as far as getting fuel to the track:
A.) Bring an empty drum in the tow vehicle bed, fill it at a local station and move it the 3 miles. we could use a hand crank pump in the back of the pickup to move fuel into 5gal fill jugs.
B.) Find a company to deliver fuel trackside (I've seen that this typically needs at least 100gal purchase). We could potentially find out who delivers to gingerman and use them
C.) find a local place to us (eastern michigan - detroit metro area) and carry it all the way to gingerman. (still trying to understand the legality and sketchyness of this)
as far as transferring from the drum to cans - do we need to follow the "normal" Lemons fueling rules (full gear, fire extinguisher, etc)? We'd plan on keeping the drum under a canopy in our pit-stall area, likely on the grass, if we pit in a similar area as we did last year.