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Session Fuel Planner
Track driving burns roughly three times your road consumption. Know your litres per session and sessions per tank before you leave home, not at the one pump near the circuit.
Fuel plan · v1.0
Quarter tank stays in reserve- Sessions per tank4 (+ reserve)
- Five-session day40 L
- Distance per session33 km
Keeps a quarter tank in reserve against fuel starvation in long corners.
The math nobody does until they run dry
A session is distance times thirst. Twenty minutes at a 100 km/h average is 33 km — nothing on the road, but at track consumption that is a real dent in the tank. Multiply your road figure by how hard you push (2.5× learning, 3× committed, 3.5× chasing), and the tank maths writes itself.
The reserve matters as much as the total. Sustained cornering with a few litres sloshing around a flat tank starves the pickup exactly when the oil system least appreciates it, so the planner treats the last quarter as untouchable. If the day's total exceeds one tank, find the nearest station before you need it.
Consumption multipliers
| Driving | vs road figure | 8 l/100 becomes |
|---|---|---|
| Motorway cruise | 0.9× | ~7 l/100 |
| Spirited B-road | 1.5× | ~12 l/100 |
| Track — learning | 2.5× | ~20 l/100 |
| Track — committed | 3.0× | ~24 l/100 |
| Track — flat out | 3.5× | ~28 l/100 |
FAQ
Typically 2.5–3.5× your road consumption. Full throttle, high revs and constant brake-accelerate cycles mean a car that does 8 l/100 km on the road easily burns 20–28 l/100 km on circuit.
Sustained cornering with a near-empty tank can starve the fuel pickup mid-corner — bad for the engine, worse mid-session. A quarter tank is the common working minimum on track.
Nearly full, yes — and know the day's total. If it needs more than one tank, locate the nearest station to the circuit in advance; the lunchtime queue at the one local pump is a track-day classic.