Over the weekend, NASCAR announced that it would make the move to a more environmentally friendly E15 fuel in all three national touring series -- Camping World Truck, Nationwide and Sprint Cup -- in 2011. All three series will run the new Sunoco Green E15 fuel, an ethanol blend.
"The fuel that we have chosen and the fuel that was ultimately developed by Sunoco is going to be cleaner burning," NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France said. "It's going to be actually, from a performance standpoint, we're actually going to be better. I'm told the drivers will have a little more horsepower and so on."
According to France, though, the move was actually made to be more environmentally responsible. The added performance in horsepower just happens to be an added perk.
The new fuel will be a domestically-produced one, coming mainly from the Midwest.
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Photo of Brian France courtesy of NASCAR Media.
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