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SPEED World Challenge Announces B50 Road Racer (clarification)
16 March 2007
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| Biodiesel Jetta. |
A Volkswagen Jetta became the first professional biodiesel racecar today. Jim Osborn’s Chili Pepper Racing team is running the VW on a B50 biodiesel blend in the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) SPEED Touring Car race at Sebring International Raceway.
The SPEED World Challenge is a production-based car series and the Jetta isn’t much different from those on showroom floors across the country. Osborn hopes his performance at the internationally famous Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring event, will inspire consumers everywhere to explore the possibilities of alternative fuels in their own cars.
The biodiesel Jetta follows Audi’s diesel racing success (earlier post) and the recent adoption of ethanol by both ALMS and the Indy Racing League
Alternative fuels have been getting a lot of media attention lately and to be racing a biodiesel car in SPEED World Challenge is a great way to show the motorsports industry and the world that alternative fuels are ready to be incorporated into our lives. The biodiesel fuel we’re using this week is very similar to what’s already on the market.
—Jim Osborn
March 16, 2007 in Biodiesel, Motorsport | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by: wrong | March 16, 2007 at 10:01 AM
Racing is one of the best ways to show the general public that this whole "biofuels thing" is not just for crazy hippies in weird cars. I wish more racing organizations focused on biofuels and alternative fuels in general so the public would associate the idea with something cool/fun. It also helps advance technologies and they could use the whole 'race bred' tagline to sell cars...
Posted by: DiscoStu | March 16, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Great news for biodiesel, charity and VW! I hope SPEED will show these races and not that Nascar. Nascar just started using unleaded gas and we are way beyond them with biofuels and economical diesels.
Posted by: NickTDI | March 16, 2007 at 11:18 AM
I wonder if the fueling rates and capacity are going to be adjusted for energy content, like the restrictions on TDI-R put in place after the season ended.
Posted by: yesplease | March 16, 2007 at 12:18 PM
Wow you still haven't edited the blatantly wrong opening line of your story. Some journalists you are.
Posted by: jigga | March 16, 2007 at 06:38 PM
This jetta is not even the first "professional biodiesel" race car.
Posted by: jigga | March 17, 2007 at 07:09 PM
This is not news. The first professional biodiesel race car was built 2 years ago and it wasn't a VW.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/12/biodiesel_lola.php
Posted by: scotch | March 18, 2007 at 10:55 AM
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This is not the first biodiesel race car. Google "D1 Lola B2K" of LeMans fame.