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IndyCars expected to switch to down-sized turbocharged engines

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 at the Indianapolis 500 and many other tracks currently use a normally aspirated 3.0L V8 running on straight ethanol. A new engine formula is expected to go into effect for the 2011 season with a switch to turbo engines with either four or six cylinders. At meeting in June to discuss the new rules, several manufacturers that were considering ... Read more →

Just how popular was $2.25 ethanol this past week? Sebastian Blanco

As we oh-so bravely predicted, gas that was selling for about a dollar less per gallon than the national average this past week was awful popular. The price was lowered at a gas station in ...

100% ethanol Indy racers start competing this Saturday Sebastian Blanco

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, ...

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 ...

Indy's E100 season starts today, kind of Sebastian Blanco

The fastest way to burn E10 will soon get a chance to burn pure ethanol. The first truck carrying 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol bound for use in the IndyCar Series, which starts March 24, left the ...

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 ...

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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