Comments on: The World's First Sustainable Race Car Makes You Go Yum Yum http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/ 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. Sat, 26 May 2012 14:59:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mike H http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/#comment-12614 Mike H Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:51:52 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3709#comment-12614 Howard - well said. Howard – well said.

]]> By: Mike H http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/#comment-35941 Mike H Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:51:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3709#comment-35941 Howard - well said. Howard – well said.

]]> By: Mike H http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/#comment-35942 Mike H Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:51:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3709#comment-35942 Howard - well said. Howard – well said.

]]> By: HowardG http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/#comment-12613 HowardG Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:24:02 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3709#comment-12613 Oh that is so reassuring to the 30,000 children a day who die of starvation, filthy water and simply preventable diseases. Yep right up there with the Pulitzer Prize winners! Journalism RULE #1 : Have something worthwhile to say RULE #2 : Get the names right... I am just so-o-o-o-o excited that F3 car will add so much to our lives. Oh that is so reassuring to the 30,000 children a day who die of starvation, filthy water and simply preventable diseases.

Yep right up there with the Pulitzer Prize winners!

Journalism

RULE #1 : Have something worthwhile to say

RULE #2 : Get the names right…

I am just so-o-o-o-o excited that F3 car will add so much to our lives.

]]> By: HowardG http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/#comment-35940 HowardG Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:24:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3709#comment-35940 Oh that is so reassuring to the 30,000 children a day who die of starvation, filthy water and simply preventable diseases. Yep right up there with the Pulitzer Prize winners! Journalism RULE #1 : Have something worthwhile to say RULE #2 : Get the names right... I am just so-o-o-o-o excited that F3 car will add so much to our lives. Oh that is so reassuring to the 30,000 children a day who die of starvation, filthy water and simply preventable diseases.

Yep right up there with the Pulitzer Prize winners!

Journalism

RULE #1 : Have something worthwhile to say

RULE #2 : Get the names right…

I am just so-o-o-o-o excited that F3 car will add so much to our lives.

]]> By: Jo Borras http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/#comment-12612 Jo Borras Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:03:15 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3709#comment-12612 Chuck, as I've pointed out on my own posts, it's very rare that "green" enthusiasts are also motorsports enthusiasts. There are gearheads on both sides, for sure, but I think USAC fuel regulations would be a bit obscure for even some of the most die-hard race fans, unless they were open wheel/dirt oval guys. I still remember when Mercedes came back to Indy running that Ilmor V8 - the Ilmor guys had to draw a pushrod schematic for the European press in attendance - they simply had never seen anything but OHC designs! OK - enough defending (she got Ross Brawn's name wrong, after all). Great post, Joanna - you totally beat me to it! Chuck, as I’ve pointed out on my own posts, it’s very rare that “green” enthusiasts are also motorsports enthusiasts. There are gearheads on both sides, for sure, but I think USAC fuel regulations would be a bit obscure for even some of the most die-hard race fans, unless they were open wheel/dirt oval guys. I still remember when Mercedes came back to Indy running that Ilmor V8 – the Ilmor guys had to draw a pushrod schematic for the European press in attendance – they simply had never seen anything but OHC designs!

OK – enough defending (she got Ross Brawn’s name wrong, after all).

Great post, Joanna – you totally beat me to it!

]]> By: Jo Borras http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/#comment-35938 Jo Borras Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:03:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3709#comment-35938 Chuck, as I've pointed out on my own posts, it's very rare that "green" enthusiasts are also motorsports enthusiasts. There are gearheads on both sides, for sure, but I think USAC fuel regulations would be a bit obscure for even some of the most die-hard race fans, unless they were open wheel/dirt oval guys. I still remember when Mercedes came back to Indy running that Ilmor V8 - the Ilmor guys had to draw a pushrod schematic for the European press in attendance - they simply had never seen anything but OHC designs! OK - enough defending (she got Ross Brawn's name wrong, after all). Great post, Joanna - you totally beat me to it! Chuck, as I’ve pointed out on my own posts, it’s very rare that “green” enthusiasts are also motorsports enthusiasts. There are gearheads on both sides, for sure, but I think USAC fuel regulations would be a bit obscure for even some of the most die-hard race fans, unless they were open wheel/dirt oval guys. I still remember when Mercedes came back to Indy running that Ilmor V8 – the Ilmor guys had to draw a pushrod schematic for the European press in attendance – they simply had never seen anything but OHC designs!

OK – enough defending (she got Ross Brawn’s name wrong, after all).

Great post, Joanna – you totally beat me to it!

]]> By: Jo Borras http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/#comment-35939 Jo Borras Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:03:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3709#comment-35939 Chuck, as I've pointed out on my own posts, it's very rare that "green" enthusiasts are also motorsports enthusiasts. There are gearheads on both sides, for sure, but I think USAC fuel regulations would be a bit obscure for even some of the most die-hard race fans, unless they were open wheel/dirt oval guys. I still remember when Mercedes came back to Indy running that Ilmor V8 - the Ilmor guys had to draw a pushrod schematic for the European press in attendance - they simply had never seen anything but OHC designs! OK - enough defending (she got Ross Brawn's name wrong, after all). Great post, Joanna - you totally beat me to it! Chuck, as I’ve pointed out on my own posts, it’s very rare that “green” enthusiasts are also motorsports enthusiasts. There are gearheads on both sides, for sure, but I think USAC fuel regulations would be a bit obscure for even some of the most die-hard race fans, unless they were open wheel/dirt oval guys. I still remember when Mercedes came back to Indy running that Ilmor V8 – the Ilmor guys had to draw a pushrod schematic for the European press in attendance – they simply had never seen anything but OHC designs!

OK – enough defending (she got Ross Brawn’s name wrong, after all).

Great post, Joanna – you totally beat me to it!

]]> By: ChuckL http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/#comment-12611 ChuckL Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:17:25 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3709#comment-12611 I suggest that Joanna Schroeder do some research before writing about racing organizations changing fuel drastically. The United States Auto Club and the Indianapolis Racing League that followed it used METHANOL (C H3 OH) exclusively, until ETHANOL (C2 H5 OH) was pushed by farmers to sell more corn. The ethanol cars were slightly slower, torque and horsepower remained almost identical, as did the fire hazard, in that both fuels burn with a flame that is almost invisible in direct sunlight. The switch was political only. Its major effect was to keep the government ethanol pushers from attacking automobile racing as racing was now using the same fuel that the government was pushing. I suggest that Joanna Schroeder do some research before writing about racing organizations changing fuel drastically.

The United States Auto Club and the Indianapolis Racing League that followed it used METHANOL (C H3 OH) exclusively, until ETHANOL (C2 H5 OH) was pushed by farmers to sell more corn. The ethanol cars were slightly slower, torque and horsepower remained almost identical, as did the fire hazard, in that both fuels burn with a flame that is almost invisible in direct sunlight. The switch was political only. Its major effect was to keep the government ethanol pushers from attacking automobile racing as racing was now using the same fuel that the government was pushing.

]]> By: ChuckL http://gas2.org/2009/10/05/the-worlds-first-sustainable-race-car-makes-you-go-yum-yum/#comment-35937 ChuckL Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:17:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3709#comment-35937 I suggest that Joanna Schroeder do some research before writing about racing organizations changing fuel drastically. The United States Auto Club and the Indianapolis Racing League that followed it used METHANOL (C H3 OH) exclusively, until ETHANOL (C2 H5 OH) was pushed by farmers to sell more corn. The ethanol cars were slightly slower, torque and horsepower remained almost identical, as did the fire hazard, in that both fuels burn with a flame that is almost invisible in direct sunlight. The switch was political only. Its major effect was to keep the government ethanol pushers from attacking automobile racing as racing was now using the same fuel that the government was pushing. I suggest that Joanna Schroeder do some research before writing about racing organizations changing fuel drastically.

The United States Auto Club and the Indianapolis Racing League that followed it used METHANOL (C H3 OH) exclusively, until ETHANOL (C2 H5 OH) was pushed by farmers to sell more corn. The ethanol cars were slightly slower, torque and horsepower remained almost identical, as did the fire hazard, in that both fuels burn with a flame that is almost invisible in direct sunlight. The switch was political only. Its major effect was to keep the government ethanol pushers from attacking automobile racing as racing was now using the same fuel that the government was pushing.

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