Sebastian Vettel was the star of his ‘Race without Trace’ drive at the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed together with his use of fossil-free P1 sustainable gas. The gas powered his 1992 Williams and 1993 McLaren F1 vehicles that took Nigel Mansell to the world championship and Ayrton Senna to his remaining Monaco race win, respectively.
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With no new CO2 emissions coming from the artificial P1 gas in the iconic race vehicles, the four-time F1 World Champion is proving on a world stage that any petrol-powered automobile can run on sustainable gas. These vehicles could be pushed without releasing any additional CO2 into the environment and without any modification to the engine.
Having received 53 Grands Prix with up to date prototype vehicles, Vettel is now spearheading a brand new strategy to saving the setting by way of his use of P1 Fuels each at Goodwood and at the Red Bull Formula Nurburgring in September. In entrance of a capability crowd on Sunday, the German took individuals again in time to the early Nineties battles between Mansell and Senna together with his immaculate vehicles and funky Senna duplicate crash helmet. After which, he spoke to the crowd on web site and to the world by way of the reside stream TV about how essential it’s that all of us push for environmental change with artificial fuels.
The jaw-dropping Fiat S70 ‘Beast of Turin’ from 1910, with its staggering 28-litre four-cylinder engine, additionally ran on P1 gas. Together with a 1907 Mercedes Benz, this exhibits {that a} Twenty first-century pioneering gas can be utilized in a automobile that’s 116 years previous. Duncan Pittaway mentioned at Goodwood, “We did a test with the Fiat before we got here to Goodwood, and what we’ve found is that it starts on the cranking handle easier, runs smoother, cooler and uses less fuel for the runs we’ve been doing here compared to previous years. It really is quite amazing.”
Ben Collings drove the 1907 Mercedes Benz together with his acquainted gusto up the well-known hill climb and mentioned, “In the run-up to the Festival, we did a back-to-back test with the P1 fuel against our existing fuel and what we found was that the engine ran smoother for us which is fantastic. That we’re reducing further CO2 emissions is the way forward not just for motorsport but for everyday cars too, so to be part of that here this weekend is a proud moment for all of us.”
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The whole P1 Fuels workforce labored lengthy hours to showcase the e-fuels on the world stage, with CEO Martin Popilka experiencing a never-to-forget trip in the P1 powered Beast of Turin up the hill climb, “To be showing the world that P1 Fuel can run across a range for cars from the 1900s to the 1990s Williams and McLaren right up to a WRC Toyota with someone as passionate about the environment as Sebastian Vettel behind the wheel has made it another milestone in stepping towards a world with less CO2 emissions thanks to our synthetic fuel. To be running our fuel in the Beast of Turin is the ultimate proof of the flexibility of the fuel across in such an incredible engine over a century old. I can say after being a passenger in the Beast of Turin up the hill climb that we certainly have a future continuing to enjoy old racing cars with technology that will be part of our future – an experience I will never forget!”
P1 Fuels provides all the runners in the FIA World Rally Championship and the FIA Karting Championship with sustainable gas. In addition to this, the Mercedes Benz Museum vehicles on the Mille Miglia and supercars on the 2023 Gumball Rally are provided by P1 Fuels too.
