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Ethanol decline's latest casualty: Rahal-Letterman racing team

During the keynote session of the Alternative Fuel and Vehicle Institute conference last May, Bobby Rahal, head of Rahal Letterman Racing, gave a talk that described his role (click and scroll down a bit) in helping the Indy Racing League move to using 100 percent ethanol fuel. In short, Rahal was fully behind the move to the biofuel. Turns out, ethanol isn't fully behind Rahal. Reports came out late last week that the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC, which is now apparently Growth Energy - more on that in a bit) will not ... Read more →

Volkswagen could join IRL in 2011 to promote TSI or TDI engines Sam Abuelsamid

For the last few years, Honda has had the IndyCar engine supply market all to itself as Toyota and Chevrolet departed to pursue other ventures. At the end of the 2008, the company recommitted to ...

IndyCars expected to switch to down-sized turbocharged engines Sam Abuelsamid

The IndyCar series is due to adopt new engine rules soon and it looks like they will follow the lead of many manufacturers toward downsized and turbocharged engines. The open-wheeled racers that run ...

World Touring Car Championship to run ethanol exclusively from 2009 Jeremy Korzeniewski

Just as the Indy Racing League has already done, the World Touring Car Championship has decided to make the switch to biofuels starting in 2009. As a matter of fact, for the 2008 year, teams will be ...

Toyota Racing Series will use ethanol next season Mike Magda

The premier single-seat racing class in New Zealand will burn a biofuel during the 2007/2008 season. Officials for the Toyota Racing Series say Shell and Anchor Ethanol Limited are developing the ...

Honda tests 100 percent ethanol IRL engine at Daytona 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Honda's certainly been at the center of the green-car universe these days with their recent annoucements of a 2009 fuel cell vehicle, 2009 50-state clean diesel, flex-fuel engines for Brazil, variable displacement motorcycle engines and Advanced VTEC. Adding to the list, Crash.net reports a ...

Honda's IRL engines will get bigger with switch to ethanol 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

To keep the Indy Racing League cars from slowing down next year when the teams are forced to use ethanol, Honda will build a bigger engine for the series. Currrently all IRL V8 engines are 3.0-liters. Next year the maximum displacement will be 3.5-liters. According to IRL-live.com, the bigger ...

Racing on renewable energy 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

There's a great article up on the Energy Efficiency Motorsport (EEMS) website about the use of bioethanol in racing. John Coxon, the author, delves into some history, some basic facts about bioethanol's make-up and production processes, as well as some of the difficulties faced by racers who use it. ...


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