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 Posted: Wed, 06 May 2009 02:32:57 Post Subject: Chocolate-powered car takes to the race track |
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| Quote: | The WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car can do 125mph around corners, say its creators. "On Friday, we tested it around the campus car park, and we hope to get it on the track later this week," project manager James Meredith at the University of Warwick told TG Daily.
The car meets all Formula 3 racing standards except for its biodiesel engine, which is configured to run on fuel derived from waste chocolate and vegetable oil. Formula 3 cars currently cannot use biodiesel. The team hopes to enter it in some sort of race soon, though, said Meredith.
Components made from plants form the mainstay of the car’s make up, including a race specification steering wheel derived from carrots and other root vegetables, a flax fibre and soybean oil foam racing seat, a woven flax fibre bib and plant oil-based lubricants. |
Read more about it here:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42304/135/
And here's the link to the article over Warwick University website:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/racing_car
BTW, my colleague to work is going for a business trip to Warwick, Enlgand, next week...so I suggested him to try and have a visit there and hopefully take some pictures of it and really have a look at it... 
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