Imagine a car made from potatoes, a steering wheel made of carrots and powered by chocolate and vegetable oil that goes 125mph around corners. Sound like an impossibility? Well, Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (WIMRC) has created the WorldFirst F3 Racecar made from sustainable and renewable materials.
Following the recent turmoil in Formula 1 arising from the high costs of running competitive motor racing teams, and doubts in sponsors’ minds over the commercial value of their involvement, the viability of motor racing is being critically questioned, explains WIMRC. With this in mind, researchers at WIMRC set out to prove that it is possible to build a competitive racing car using environmentally sustainable components.
The car design team has attempted to introduce green and sustainable elements into each aspect of the car. Components made from plants form the mainstay of the car’s make up, including a race spec steering wheel derived from carrots and other root vegetables, a flax fibre and soybean oil foam racing seat, a woven flax fibre bib, plant oil based lubricants and a bio diesel engine configured to run on fuel derived from waste chocolate and vegetable oil.
Visit: http://www.worldfirstracing.co.uk/
Via: PRLog
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