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.
With the development of the four-stroke internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto in 1876, gasoline became essential to the automotive industry. Today, almost all gasoline is used to fuel automobiles, with a very small percentage used to power agricultural equipment and aircraft.