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.
Top Fuel dragsters also use a very similar engine set up. For more information check out NHRA.com, the home page for the National Hot Rod Association. Funny cars run 500ci pushrod( OHV) V8 engines based on the Chrysler 426ci. Hemi. However, the sport long ago reached such a high competitive level that no funny car can use an actual production engine block and have a hope of winning.