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Originally Posted by rsigley
No he didn't. He turned his car off to coast and then when he went to restart it the fuel injection failed. It's been a common problem this year with the new NASCAR requirements
Under the old system they had to just drop the clutch but now they need to refire it and it has been causing problems all year. Maybe he would have ran out of gas but that isn't what happened the car failed to restart
It happened to logano at daytona and stewart last week
He ran out of gas, If he did what you said he would've never taken the green. The car was running on the restart. Listen to his in car audio.
You're simply wrong. Did you see stewart even trying to restart when it happened to him? No, because it would've been impossible. Keslowski simply ran out.
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For the second consecutive week, Keselowski had some fuel pickup issues, and this time it hurt him much worse than it did in a fifth-place run at Phoenix. After Landon Cassill blew his engine on Lap 246, Keselowski couldn't get going on the restart and was well off the pace as cars passed him on both sides. After the race, Keselowski said there was still fuel in the gas tank, meaning it was an issue with the fuel system.
Yep, you never get all the gas out. When it gets low you can't pick it up. Due to being on the banking at low speeds during the caution and the pickup being on the right side of the fuel cell. Stewart tripped a fuse at phoenix. By cutting the ignition on and off. Brad ran out of gas. Nothing to do with the EFI or Keslowski cutting the ignition.
Fuel pick up issue doesnt equal fuel injection failing.
What happned to Stewart was entirely new with EFI. What happened to Keselowski has happened a 1000 times to guys low on fuel during a caution, happens with EFI or a carburator. That is why guys low on fuel will run on the apron on high banked tracks. They're trying to pickup as much fuel as possible for the Restart. It happened to Gordon at Charlotte.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdEXgBLmjPo skip to 4:30 same thing happens. Except eventually Gordon got going again.
Running out of gas doesn't mean you don't have any gas left in the tank. It means it's so low the pickup will no longer feed gas to the motor.
If what you said is true the car would've never been running on the restart. It was running because it never failed to restart. It restarted just fine. Was running at low rpm, then when he shifted and pushed the gas there was no fuel in the pickup to match what the engine needed to get to full speed.
Last edited by whytetittie; 03-25-2012 at 10:30 AM.