In this year’s IndyCar Race all cars will run on 100% ethanol.
Ethanol’s high octane rating delivers strong engine performance by helping engines resist detonation so they can run higher compression ratios.
The organization has partnered with the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC) to make E10, “the official ethanol-enriched fuel” of the Series.
The EPIC-IndyCar series partnership began in 2005, and has advanced from ethanol being a team sponsor to working with the series to introduce an ethanol-methanol blend in 2006.
IndyCar Series cars have run on methanol fuel since the late 1960s, and will continue to do so during the 2005 season. Internal dynamometer testing has shown that there are no technical barriers to replacing methanol with ethanol.
“The transition between methanol and ethanol in our cars should be very smooth,” IRL Senior Technical Director Phil Casey said. “Our cars won’t sound differently, smell differently or run differently than they have in the past. There will be a seamless transition from methanol to ethanol in our cars.”
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