Katharine Ross Looks Back on Being a Young TV Star in the â60s. Before Katharine Ross garnered an Oscar nomination for âThe Graduate,â the actress was working in a San Francisco theater troupe and starting to catch fire with guest roles on TV in the early 1960s.
The most common fuels used in race cars these days (2007) are: 1. Leaded and unleaded gasoline. This fuel is used by many types of race cars and octane levels are usually high, meaning 94 and above. Gasoline is used in drag cars, rally cars, stock cars, and even Formula One cars. Gasoline is derived from the distillation of crude oil.
Ethanol fuel is an alternative to gasoline, and is manufactured from the conversion of carbon-based feed stocks such as sugarcane, sugar beets, switchgrass, corn, and barley. Ethanol is currently used in gasoline for vehicles. Most vehicles run on mixtures of gas and ethanol; this mixture is common at most gas stations across the country.