In the UK, Motorsport UK, working with Coryton Fuels, will bring sustainable fuel options to the 2023 edition of Formula Student for the first time in its 25-year history.
The finals of the celebrated competition will get underway on Thursday this week at Silverstone Circuit and will conclude on July 23. Formula Student challenges teams of university students to display their technical, engineering, design and manufacturing skills, in addition to their academic studies, enabling them to become the well-rounded engineers of the future, whether in motorsport or elsewhere.
Motorsport UK has provided a grant for entrants to use Coryton’s sustainable fuels in internal combustion engine (ICE) powertrains, offering up to an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The sustainable fuels are second-generation biofuels and contain no fossil fuels; instead, the carbon in the fuels is effectively recycled from the atmosphere. The highest-placed entrant utilising the fuels will be awarded with the Motorsport UK Sustainable Fuels Award.
A third of the 130 university teams have chosen to use the fuel, including one from Italy and a further from Slovenia. Closer to home, the universities of Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow Caledonian, Kingston, Exeter, West of England , Sheffield Hallam and Wolverhampton have also elected for the sustainable option.
