Eager to continue its programme of green initiatives, the Castle Combe Circuit has announced a ground breaking scheme to power all of its RacingSchool vehicles by methane gas generated on site.
Using land on the in-field of the 1.84 mile circuit currently used for crop growing, the circuit plans to raise cows and other high methane producing animals and capture the flammable gas for its own use.
A new subsidiary company, Farm Animal Racing Technology, has been set up by the circuit to establish the high tech facility, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the world.
The school runs a fleet of Formula Ford, Fiesta S and Focus ST’s, all of which will be converted to run on the environmentally friendly gas. The cars’ existing fuel tanks will be removed and replaced with small gas containers, similar to those used by LPG powered road cars. Only minimal retuning of the engines is necessary.
I've been looking forward to the new F1 season since last year's came to an end. The prospect of Hamilton & Button versus Alonso & Massa, with Vettel & Schumacher vying to be top Germans is about as good as it has ever been or ever likely to be.
And then the awful realisation struck me. I'm going to have to listen to Jonathan Legard again. Sorry, it's just too much to bear. Yes, I know I could switch to the Radio 5 commentary, but that means I miss out on Brundle, perhaps the best commentator F1 has ever had.
I'm sure he's a very nice chap and he has all the facts at his disposal, but if there is ever an award for stating the bleeding obvious Legard will win it.The problem is he is not a motor sport man through and through and therefore the intrinsic 'feel' for the most relevant does not flow through him as it does Brundle or did with James Allen.
A few have defended him by doing a comparison with Murray Walker, voted the greatest commentator of all time. But this is another guy I have a problem with. I know it's not...
I’ve decided this is the year we all need to start taking the environmental challenges facing our sport a lot more seriously. I may well be on my own with this, but when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man, she wasn’t very popular either.
Regardless of whether you are stubborn enough to deny climate change or not, it’s fairly obvious there is a critical mass developing which will become a steamroller that won’t be stopped. There are very few industries or activities which won’t eventually come under the spotlight and ours is one which, on the face of it, has hardly any defence. Perhaps our best is that we are a very niche activity which collectively does a minute fraction of the damage caused by the obvious culprits such as air travel and cows farting.
Unfortunately, that argument is likely to be somewhat overwhelmed in the wave of sentiment building against environmentally unfriendly activities, niche or...
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