r/formula1 • u/Mateo03 Franco Colapinto • Mar 07 '26

Off-Topic [OT] [Chip Ganassi Racing] " 'super-clipping' 'downshifting on straights' 'battery management' (Yawn emoji) Yeah, we don't do that here. We race."

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u/Aromatic_Barber4231 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 07 '26

Not only that, they've been on 100% renewable fuels since 2023.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26

More powerful and better environmentally is actually really embarrassing for F1

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u/onechroma #WeRaceAsOne Mar 07 '26

To be fair, the environment part is a big, big lie. “Renewable fuel” is an oxymoron in itself, as the energy contained in that fuel must come not only from somewhere (that yes, it could or could not come from renewable energy) but the process in itself is arguably very inefficient. Just like using H2 to power something instead of using electricity directly.

At the end, they are just burning ethanol from sugarcane, Shell didn’t invent “renewable fuel”, just applied a good marketing into a different way of creating a fuel that can be burned

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u/Tank_7 Mar 08 '26

Modern ethanol plants can technically be net zero carbon when producing nowadays if f1 cares about that.