Just wanted to make sure I really was running out of gas....

While road coursing I always try to keep as little gas in the car as possible. The other day this happened twice (in 2 different sessions), just after the "low gas" light came on, after I'd take a corner and go down the straight, the car was hesitating and acting like it had no fuel. This was after about 13 minutes of HARD driving. All gauges were completely normal.

From experience I've gathered there's 3-4 gallons of fuel still in the car when the light comes on.

After I got off the track and drove a short distance, the car was fine.

I just want to make sure it wasn't some sort of engine protection thing going on... felt like running out of gas but there was a pretty good amount of gas in the tank. I assume it was the gas "sloshing" around...

Anyone have thoughts!?!?

Just wanted to make sure I really was running out of gas....

While road coursing I always try to keep as little gas in the car as possible. The other day this happened twice (in 2 different sessions), just after the "low gas" light came on, after I'd take a corner and go down the straight, the car was hesitating and acting like it had no fuel. This was after about 13 minutes of HARD driving. All gauges were completely normal.

From experience I've gathered there's 3-4 gallons of fuel still in the car when the light comes on.

After I got off the track and drove a short distance, the car was fine.

I just want to make sure it wasn't some sort of engine protection thing going on... felt like running out of gas but there was a pretty good amount of gas in the tank. I assume it was the gas "sloshing" around...

Anyone have thoughts!?!?

you are correct, it's just fuel sloshing around and starving the engine. It has to do with the baffling in the fuel tank or something like that. Lots of threads about it.

I try to keep at least 1/4 tank in the car while on the track.

on my 8, when the reserve light comes on I have 2.5 gallons left.

good for another 50 miles or so... :)

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yea, my light comes on at about 3 gallons left. but i try to fill it right away.

Definitely oil sloshing. With my old 2.5RS coupe, when I was running low on gas at certain tight turns in autoX, the car will hesitate upon exit.

You're fuel starving the engine. My co-driver and I have found that when the low fuel light somes on, we need to add gas for the next run or we'll get fuel starvation.

Yes. I've had fuel starvation hiccups with as much as a 1/4 tank of gas on the road course. Just keep it nice and full.