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WEC 2022 Guide – The Championship goes green
TotalEnergies goes 100% renewable © Frédéric Le Floc'h / DPPI
On the sidelines of 24 Hours of Le Mans, last August, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and TotalEnergies jointly announced that the company would supply green fuel for the 2022 season of WEC : the Excellium Racing 100. While the Formula 1 will only switch to fully synthetic gasoline in 2026 with the arrival of the next generation of powertrains, the WEC has decided not to wait. 100% renewable, this new fuel has already been tested in 2021, during the European Truck Racing Championship, the ETRC. “This is the first time in a world championship that we will produce a fuel without a drop of oil, develops Romain Aubry, the technical manager of TotalEnergies. This is revolutionary for the world of motorsport, because everything comes from biomass. We have raw materials that are i
Valentin GLO
Journalist. Endurance reporter (WEC, IMSA, ELMS, ALMS) and sometimes F1 or IndyCar.
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