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100% ethanol Indy racers start competing this Saturday

That the 2007 IndyCar Series will be run using 100 percent ethanol is not news, so we won't repeat what we've told you before (see the links below if you missed things). What we will bring up here, late on a Friday, is that tomorrow is finally the day that the 3.5-liter Honda Indy V-8 engine start using pure ethanol in competition. The race is the XM Satellite Radio Indy 300 on the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida. E100 was tested in the cars earlier this year. If you want to read what Team Ethanol driver Jeff Simmons and Tony Kanaan, the ... Read more →

New Honda 100 percent ethanol engines ready for IndyCar 2007 season Sebastian Blanco

While Honda's latest racing announcement is a positivist preview for the 2007 racing season, including F1, IndyCar, SuperGT, etc. What's interesting to us are the E100-ready engine announcements. As ...

Honda's IRL engines will get bigger with switch to ethanol Mike Magda

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 ...

President Bush a fan of using ethanol in Indy races Sebastian Blanco

Last week the representatives from the Indy Racing League met with President Bush at the White House, where the president heard a bit about the league's use of ethanol to race around in circles. Wait, ...

Switch to ethanol not a problem for Indy Racing League Sebastian Blanco

The Indy Racing League has been promoting ethanol this year in preparation for the big switch to using the biofuel almost exclusively next year (see AutoblogGreen's Indy roundup here) and league ...

100% ethanol Indy racers start competing this Saturday 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

That the 2007 IndyCar Series will be run using 100 percent ethanol is not news, so we won't repeat what we've told you before (see the links below if you missed things). What we will bring up here, late on a Friday, is that tomorrow is finally the day that the 3.5-liter Honda Indy V-8 engine start ...

New Honda 100 percent ethanol engines ready for IndyCar 2007 season 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

While Honda's latest racing announcement is a positivist preview for the 2007 racing season, including F1, IndyCar, SuperGT, etc. What's interesting to us are the E100-ready engine announcements. As you're probably aware, Honda supplies all the engines for the IndyCar series, which is moving from 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 ...

President Bush a fan of using ethanol in Indy races 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Last week the representatives from the Indy Racing League met with President Bush at the White House, where the president heard a bit about the league's use of ethanol to race around in circles. Wait, it's ovals, right? Anyway, the IRL is using an E10 blend of gasoline and ethanol this season and ...

Switch to ethanol not a problem for Indy Racing League 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Indy Racing League has been promoting ethanol this year in preparation for the big switch to using the biofuel almost exclusively next year (see AutoblogGreen's Indy roundup here) and league officials say the fuel has performed perfectly so far. The league's director of engineering, Jeff ...


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