Race cars have always been rolling laboratories, but the experiment has changed. Thomas Chevaucher, Technical Engineering Director at the FIA, and Pierre Villez, the federation's F1 and Sport Sustainability Lead, help write the rules for Formula 1, Formula E, and the World Endurance Championship, and today those rules are as much about efficiency and emissions as they are about speed. They explain what the sustainable fuels powering today's race cars are actually made of, how technology moves between the racetrack and the cars we drive every day, and why that relationship doesn't work quite the way most people assume. The conversation covers how far Formula E has come since its awkward early days, how much energy its newest cars recover on the move, and the biggest source of racing's carbon footprint, which has nothing to do with what happens on track. And yes, they explain exactly what a virtual fuel tank is. Join Craig Cole and co-host Sam Abuelsamid as they dive deep with Thomas and Pierre to find out how the world of motorsport is getting greener, and what it means for the car in your driveway, in this episode of GreenCars, The Podcast.
Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
5:32 - What Is the FIA?
8:04 - Why Sustainability Matters in Motorsport
11:11 - Formula 1, Formula E & WEC Technology
14:09 - Racing's Impact on Passenger Cars
15:36 - Formula E's Decade of Progress
21:31 - Racing's Hidden Emissions
24:09 - What's in Sustainable Race Fuel?
30:11 - How a Virtual Fuel Tank Works
37:08 - Four for the Road
43:20 - Conclusions
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