Organization tests emissions for 2009

The British Touring Car Championship will for the 2009 season test and limit the CO2 emissions. Recently the organization for the first time tested a S2000 car, Vauxhall Vectra, at a rolling road.
“This latest test was extremely positive. We have now successfully developed a specific drive cycle for the performance envelope that a BTCC car works in,” said series director Alan Gow to BTCC.net.

“In other words, the rolling road test we’d put a BTCC car through now gives us a meaningful reading when comparing their CO2 emissions to those of showroom equivalents.”

Working with the BTCC organization is the Government body Energy Efficient Motor Sport.

“The BTCC has done a fantastic job of bringing social and political pressures to bear on modern-day motor sport and at the highest level. It is hugely important that Britain’s highest-profile championship – with an endorsement from the reigning champion team – has taken this lead.

“At EEMS we’ve had a growing number of enquiries from teams looking to proceed with their own energy efficient initiatives. The BTCC is always of great interest to them because of its pro-active lead. It stimulates people to think differently,” said Marc de Jong, Senior Project Consultant for EEMS.