Drivers reported an unusual smell and even eye irritation from a new carbon-neutral fuel tested by SuperGT for introduction next year.
A total of 22 cars ran at Motegi on Monday, the day after Sunday’s final round of the 2022 season, to test the ETS Racing Fuels second-generation biomass product all runners in both the GT500 and GT300 classes will use next year.
There were also suggestions that some drivers were struggling with eye irritation when following another car closely, as the exhaust fumes of the car ahead entered the cockpit. “Some fuel manufacturers say that the smell can be changed by changing the raw materials, although there’s also the matter of cost control to consider.
“I had no uncomfortable feelings using the carbon-neutral fuel,” Quintarelli told the official SUPER GT website. “The GT500 car has what you could call an ‘aggressively designed engine’ with a lot of advanced technologies applied in it.
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