"The latent heat of evaporation of methanol is less then water. This basically means that less energy is required for methanol to go from liquid to gas state compared to water. During the compression stroke, as cylinder temperatures go up from compression, the methanol particles release from the water particles as they go from liquid to gas state. Once in gas state and at higher temperatures the methanol particles will ignite. This creates multiple combustion points distributed in the cylinder resulting in a more complete air to fuel burn."