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Inspired by: FP7 » One Formula 3 team uses only biofuel and natural or recycled materials

version: 1 / created: 2009-12-17
id: #578 / version id: #578
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Originally submitted by: Tuomo Kuosa
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Source of inspiration

European Commission Framework Programme for RTD (FP7)

Theme/activity of inspiration

Theme 2 - Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology

Sub-theme/area of inspiration

Enabling research

Optional reference/s to FP7 project/s

Use the following format: Project Acronym (Project Reference No.). Use commas if more than one project is associated to this Wild Card, for example: ALFA-BIRD (213266), SAFAR (213374), LAPCAT-II (211485)
http://www.physorg.com/news165555687.html

Signal's headline

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One Formula 3 team uses only biofuel and natural or recycled materials

Signal's description

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Please describe the Weak Signal (approx. 150 words)
The WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car drives down the straight of a test track at Bruntingthorpe near Lutterworth, in Leicestershire. The steering wheel is made from a polymer derived from carrots and other root vegetables while the seat is flax fibre shell, soy bean oil foam and recycled polyester fabric. Cars powered by chocolate, steered by carrots with drivers sitting on soybean oil foam seats - it's motor racing's cheap, cheerful and environmentally-friendly series of the future. The biodiesel WorldFirst F3 car, designed as a riposte to Formula One's "carbon excesses," is the brainchild of researchers at the Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre, who developed the prototype for just 220,000 dollars. The WorldFirst team insist there there is no need to compromise on performance while at the same time "effectively managing the planet's resources."

Keywords

biofuel, formula, energy consumption

Mini-description

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The WorldFirst Formula 3 team which uses only biofuels insist there there is no need to compromise on performance while at the same time "effectively managing the planet's resources."