Motorcycles and scooters compete for fuel-efficiency bragging rights in Philippines
Conspiracy theorists will need to take a back seat for this story, as Petron, the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines, recently held a "race" called the Sprint 4T Endurance and Economy Run of 2009. This was the first year the event took place, and it was designed to pit two-wheelers with four-stroke engines against each other to finish a course within a prescribed time limit. Best of all, the winners were determined not just by what order they finished in but by how little fuel they used in the process. That's an idea we can truly get behind, right?
Any machine with an engine displacing at least 100ccs was eligible to compete, and the entrants were divided into classes based on their displacement. We're happy to report that a Vespa ET4, complete with its relatively small 150cc four-stroke powerplant, managed to finish in the top five, and its fuel consumption was significantly better than any machine that beat its time. Nice work!
[Sources: Vespinoy and Motorcycle Philippines]
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Woodenbee 10:01AM (1/07/2009)
Conspiracy theories only apply to US owned oil/energy companies and their agenda to rip off the American public and destroy our environment. Oil companies in other countries aren't run by the evil right wing elite that is unique to the US. Plus in other countries they dont have the Republican base they have here that go along with any nut job scam they dream up, be it pointless war, financial deregulation, energy deregulation, bailouts for banks???, and tax cuts for the already super-rich, nowhere else would this be tolerated by the public.
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paulwesterberg 12:13PM (1/07/2009)
I dont think that most racing fans will dig this kind of hot action:
As they make the turn 3 cycles vie for the finish line, there is a photo finish as they all gun it over the line. But after review their tanks are all nearly empty and the race goes to..... the guy who finished 4th.
They should run a 100 mile race on one gallon of gas. That way the fastest guy wins. Anyone who cant go 100 miles on a gallon can try to push their vehicle across the line. Either that or severely limit the size of the fuel tank so that a racer will need to waste time in the pit area to refuel. Zero pit stops wins the race as long as the average speed is fast enough.
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