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It's the hip and trendy thing to do. You don't need the fastest race car; you need a mathematician crew chief and the up-to-date driving skills on how to get one or two, or maybe three of four, extra laps out of a tank of fuel.

"It used to be at a track like this, one lap short [on fuel] meant you better come in because you weren't going to make it," Gordon said. "Now guys have figured out they can make [it] with all kinds of things, like pushing in the clutch and shutting off the engine.

"You can stretch it four and five laps now, even at a big track [2.5 miles] like this. It used to be impossible to save that much fuel, but guys are figuring it out. It's something a lot of people have been working on. Now we work on it."

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