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Flatland Driving and Fuel Search

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

What happens here

The route transitions from mountainous terrain to flat, open plains as they enter Nebraska. The driver notes the long, straight roads and the lack of high-octane fuel (91 octane or higher) at multiple gas stations. Most stations only offer 87 octane, sometimes with ethanol. He drives through several small, rural towns like Sedgwick and Julesburg, observing their unique characteristics, including an old service station and large grain silos. He mentions seeing a "huge state penitentiary" in Sterling, Colorado during a previous trip.

Goal: Continue the drive through Nebraska's flatlands and find suitable high-octane fuel

Tools and materials

  • Red GMC Yukon XL GMC — The vehicle being driven
  • E85 Fuel — High-performance fuel type that the driver hopes to find
  • Gasoline — Available fuel type in rural areas

What they say

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it's funny you'll be driving just middle of nowhere and then clump of race week guys you just i kind of wonder what regular people think when they're going down the normal farm road absolutely in the middle of nowhere and they just see a cluster of muscle cars with trailers and loud stuff like what are these guys doing this is what what like it's funny and those lone little trees that are just out in the middle of a field by themselves i like those reminds me of lion king look at this view pretty cool find that perfect spot no it's not working the ac compressor stopped working for whatever reason i don't know why it's not blowing cold uh it's probably something stupid just like shot the stronghold turn it back on and it would blow cold again elvis does that sometimes so not really bothered but i haven't bothered to stop and try to restart it either because i'm kind of enjoying having the windows down just vibing a little bit we just stopped peed i checked some fuses didn't find anything that made it make any sense nothing was blown on the fuse side maybe just need to blend or relearn i don't i don't know i'm really not sure it seemed weird before because when i would turn it up like it was blowing too cold it stayed blowing cold even though i had the dial set to 74 on both sides did you notice that that it was blowing cold all the time no matter what i did this yeah yeah i feel like that has something to do with it but we really don't know it's not a big deal feels kind of nice going through some little towns here sedgwick and you guys if you haven't been out on roads off the highway out in wherever especially the midwest do it sometime it's just it's just crazy there's a whole other world out there that it's not the one you know about that's interstates and on-ramps and gas stations and shopping centers people live out here and they do just fine i don't know how long it takes them to go to the grocery store maybe they don't even go to the grocery store maybe they just live off their land because they're farmers it's just interesting to think about when you see places of habitation that are just so different from what your personal experience is with that i don't know am i getting through spaced out here do you follow me like i know some of you guys know have a discussion in the comments go discuss with other people in their own replies look at this whole place little service station something that probably had one pump at some point maybe two 20 miles to…

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