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Final Checkpoint and Fuel Strategy

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Rocky Mountain Race Week Day 5: The Reality of "Drive Days" With NO Interstates (Denver to Kearney)

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What happens here

The driver reaches the final checkpoint, a small gas station in Sutherland, Nebraska. He references his paper route instructions, noting that Race Week often doesn't provide exact addresses for checkpoints, requiring participants to actively look for visual cues like specific gas stations. He bypasses this station, as it only offers 87 octane. Their strategy is to make it to Kearney, Nebraska, where E85 fuel is available, to fill up for the next day's racing. He explains that they need to ensure they have enough fuel to reach Kearney without running dry. He estimates they have 98 miles left to Kearney, running on State Highway 30, which runs parallel to I-80 but is specifically chosen to avoid interstates, a core spirit of Race Week.

Goal: Reach Kearney, Nebraska for E85 fuel, navigating the final checkpoint

Tools and materials

  • Race Week Route Instructions — Navigating the drive day and identifying checkpoints
  • Red GMC Yukon XL GMC — The vehicle completing the drive
  • E85 Fuel — Performance fuel needed for the next day's racing

What they say

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here is the checkpoint this little gas station here that's pretty cool hop out take a picture man we've stopped at i don't know how many gas stations now four or five or driven by them and seen it they do not have even 91 it's all just 87 they have 87 and diesel or they have regular 87 or super premium 87 which is 87 with ethanol in it so we're we're north platte right now i'm driving for 30 miles looking for 91 even i've not seen it yeah there's a little a lot of people cramped in there we can't find something here okay yeah see here's the casey's it says super unleaded i bet that means the same stupid thing as before but we'll pull in here just to look our last ditch effort is to go to uh loves on 80. no they just got two kinds of 87. we detoured to this gloves and they do have 91. and i found out why the air conditioner is not working anymore [Music] look at the clutch down there [Music] it's just jingling jingling in the freaking breeze i don't know how to fix that i've never had that happen to anything before i don't know if you can replace the clutch or if you gotta pull the whole compressor out and use a different one i don't i don't know so that'll be a future video i'm sure i'm gonna try to find out how many miles roughly we have left of the drive and calculate to not fill up the whole way because there's the e85 and kearney and i want to destroy uncle chad tomorrow so gosh don't tell him we got 98 miles left to kearney and we're taking it on state highway 30 which basically runs parallel to i-80 but it's not i-80 so we drive on this

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