Comments on: Audi TDI Place Second in European LeMans http://gas2.org/2008/04/08/audi-tdi-place-second-in-european-lemans/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Thu, 24 May 2012 21:04:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Aron http://gas2.org/2008/04/08/audi-tdi-place-second-in-european-lemans/#comment-1342 Aron Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:13:45 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/04/08/audi-tdi-place-second-in-european-lemans/#comment-1342 First of all road racing is incredible fun. Though it is wasteful it probably doesn't come close to all of those grocery store trips in suburbia. That said I think any time racing branches out into alternate technologies there is a chance that something good may come of it. If luck would have it that biodiesel from algae turns out to be a viable option and then furthermore we start to see diesel engines on the winner's podium; it will begin to cement the image of a high-performance sustainable biofuel car in the mind of the average person. Given different restrictions placed on different motor racing classes it forms the ideal test-bed for vehicle technology. For instance, many classes have restrictions on how much fuel may be carried. In such classes the engineers have an immense interest in getting the most possible performance out of a given fuel load. Certainly that is at the high end of the performance curve but many of the advances do end up in the family car or commuter motorcycle eventually. First of all road racing is incredible fun. Though it is wasteful it probably doesn’t come close to all of those grocery store trips in suburbia. That said I think any time racing branches out into alternate technologies there is a chance that something good may come of it.

If luck would have it that biodiesel from algae turns out to be a viable option and then furthermore we start to see diesel engines on the winner’s podium; it will begin to cement the image of a high-performance sustainable biofuel car in the mind of the average person.

Given different restrictions placed on different motor racing classes it forms the ideal test-bed for vehicle technology. For instance, many classes have restrictions on how much fuel may be carried. In such classes the engineers have an immense interest in getting the most possible performance out of a given fuel load. Certainly that is at the high end of the performance curve but many of the advances do end up in the family car or commuter motorcycle eventually.

]]> By: Aron http://gas2.org/2008/04/08/audi-tdi-place-second-in-european-lemans/#comment-22954 Aron Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:13:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/04/08/audi-tdi-place-second-in-european-lemans/#comment-22954 First of all road racing is incredible fun. Though it is wasteful it probably doesn't come close to all of those grocery store trips in suburbia. That said I think any time racing branches out into alternate technologies there is a chance that something good may come of it. If luck would have it that biodiesel from algae turns out to be a viable option and then furthermore we start to see diesel engines on the winner's podium; it will begin to cement the image of a high-performance sustainable biofuel car in the mind of the average person. Given different restrictions placed on different motor racing classes it forms the ideal test-bed for vehicle technology. For instance, many classes have restrictions on how much fuel may be carried. In such classes the engineers have an immense interest in getting the most possible performance out of a given fuel load. Certainly that is at the high end of the performance curve but many of the advances do end up in the family car or commuter motorcycle eventually. First of all road racing is incredible fun. Though it is wasteful it probably doesn’t come close to all of those grocery store trips in suburbia. That said I think any time racing branches out into alternate technologies there is a chance that something good may come of it.

If luck would have it that biodiesel from algae turns out to be a viable option and then furthermore we start to see diesel engines on the winner’s podium; it will begin to cement the image of a high-performance sustainable biofuel car in the mind of the average person.

Given different restrictions placed on different motor racing classes it forms the ideal test-bed for vehicle technology. For instance, many classes have restrictions on how much fuel may be carried. In such classes the engineers have an immense interest in getting the most possible performance out of a given fuel load. Certainly that is at the high end of the performance curve but many of the advances do end up in the family car or commuter motorcycle eventually.

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