Super cool idea (I don’t think it’s off-topic at all!). I like how they’re doing a blend of vegetable oil and solar as well. Ideally it would be fully carbon free but I can’t imagine the logistics of traveling with enough solar/wind/etc to power everything. Ideally to get certification all of these tracks will be required to provide 100% carbon free energy to the paddock in the future. That way they can do bigger permanent installations (or just source carbon free energy from the local electric utility)
I’m also betting that trialing this is a way to strong arm circuits into compliance with a “see? We can do it and travel”.
Street courses may remain a challenge, bit they likely also have a better grid to pull from than some remote facilities.
Yeah that was kinda my thought too. Have the purpose-built race tracks build their own clean power generation, and have the street courses contract with their electricity provider to provide clean energy
Super cool idea (I don’t think it’s off-topic at all!). I like how they’re doing a blend of vegetable oil and solar as well. Ideally it would be fully carbon free but I can’t imagine the logistics of traveling with enough solar/wind/etc to power everything. Ideally to get certification all of these tracks will be required to provide 100% carbon free energy to the paddock in the future. That way they can do bigger permanent installations (or just source carbon free energy from the local electric utility)
I’m also betting that trialing this is a way to strong arm circuits into compliance with a “see? We can do it and travel”. Street courses may remain a challenge, bit they likely also have a better grid to pull from than some remote facilities.
Yeah that was kinda my thought too. Have the purpose-built race tracks build their own clean power generation, and have the street courses contract with their electricity provider to provide clean energy