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Government
regulations - and public demand - will soon force the elimination
of leaded fuels from motor sports. In the meantime, leaded
race
gas is becoming scarcer and more expensive. At PRO Racing Fuels,
we are dedicated
to providing racers with unleaded fuels that actually exceed
the performance available from the best conventional leaded
race
fuels. Through
an extensive research program by fuel chemists and
automotive technicians, working in one of the world's finest research
laboratories,
we were the first in North
America to answer
the demand for a lead free high octane racing fuel.
We have since developed a line of five unleaded racing fuels
that meet the needs of racers in every kind of motor
sport competition. The superiority of PRO Racing Fuels
has been proven by race winners across the continent.
We were the first in the field, and we will continue to work with racers to
ease the transition to unleaded fuels.
· PRO Racing Fuels require no changes to fuel system
components;
· PRO Racing Fuels contain no alcohol;
· PRO Racing Fuels are consistent batch after batch.
Background Information:
When the Canadian Environmental Act came
into force on December 1 1990, most racers took for granted
that Canada's Minister of the Environment (equivalent to
Director
of the EPA) would exempt fuel for racing, as had happened
in the US.
Ontario Competition Fuels (OCF) took it for granted, too
right
up until the roof fell in.
For years, OCF had been familiar to racers as
a supplier of racing fuels - including leaded race gas imported
from the U.S. Then, one quiet afternoon in 1992, OCF was
blitzed by agents from Environment Canada. By the time the
raiders left,
OCF owner Mitch Markusich was out of business, and potentially
facing $200,000 in fines or six months in jail, for importing,
possessing, and selling leaded race gas.
Markusich decided to turn the crisis into an opportunity.
Leaving his lawyer to deal with the legal fight, Mitch contacted
a fuel chemist with long experience,
and launched a program to develop an unleaded racing gasoline. Astonishingly,
they had positive results within two weeks.
The brew, called PRO Racing Fuel, not only exhibited 109 octane,
it equaled or bettered the power output achieved with leaded
race gas. Since then, OCF
has kept plugging away to improve unleaded PRO Racing Fuel, sinking a small
fortune into development. The result is a line of five specially formulated
unleaded racing fuels that produce power that actually surpasses competitive
leaded race gas.
Markusich no longer faces jail - the charges against him were
stayed - and the Minister did, in fact, introduce legislation
to exempt race fuel from the
lead ban.
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