greatlakesmedved asked: The IndyCar Series’ groundbreaking use 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol in its Honda Indy V-8 engines. If 650-horsepower IndyCar Series cars that cover the length of a football field in 1 second can run safely and effectively on 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol, so can your vehicle (either 90 percent gasoline/10 percent ethanol blend or an E85 vehicle) with reduced emissions as an add-on benefit.
Indy Cars get up to speeds of over 200 mph. The questions are:
Will this lead to the other types of Race Cars making the switch? Will this promote and show to the world that Ethanol is a viable source for fuel?
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I think I will show ethanol as a viable fuel. Most advancements in the auto industry showed up in racing first. So the fact that they can reliably and powerfully run on ethanol shows that we can use it at home, and it is a home grown fuel making us more independant – we need to follow Brazils example (they have a very high percentage of ethanol base vechicles)
Indy cars have almost always burned some type of alcohol, until just recently, methanol. There was a brief period in the sixties when the cars ran on gasoline. Since gasoline gives better mileage than either alcohol, they were setting cars up to go the full 500 miles without a pit stop.