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We're suckers for a good race car picture any time we can justify one here on Edmunds' green car site, and this is as good a reason as they get.


Gale Banks, the California-based dean of diesel and leading proponent of the idea that the fuel - and engines that burn it - can be clean, economical and powerful, is taking his Sidewinder Top Diesel dragster to the Desert Diesel Nationals in Arizona next weekend (March 6) with his eye on runs down the asphalt quarter-mile in the 200 mph-plus, low mid-6-seconds range.


And, he says, he'll do it "without the black clouds of soot" that normally come with diesel racing (because the engine is loaded with fuel on the line, a tremendous amount blows out the exhaust without being fully burned up, resulting in a lot of soot).


Banks has sent numerous speed records with diesel race vehicles and does it because he loves to go fast and wants to raise awareness of advanced diesel technology and the diesel engine's power and diesel fuel's efficiency compared to gasoline.




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Tags: Diesel, Clean Diesel, Diesel, Diesel Dragster, Diesel Racing, Gale Banks

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Diesel Booster Aiming for Speed Record in Oil-Burning Dragster was originally published by Green Car Advisor. Read the full story by clicking here.