How Can Le Man Cars Drive Hundreds Of Miles at Over 140mph Without Running Out Of Fuel Straight Away

Question

If I were to drive my Volkswagen with a V6 engine at 140mph, it would run out of fuel within an hour. How can these types of cars with V8 do hours of driving at over 140mph? What kind of black magic is this.

Edit: Thank you all for the answers.

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Answer 1

I mean… they’ll have larger fuel tanks and they do still need fuelling pretty often. At the Nürburgring 24 hours, cars will need to put generally after 7, maybe 8 laps. Doing a 9 minute lap that’s every hour – 1 hour 10 minutes or so.