MotoGP Starts Reducing Fossils In The 2024 Racing Season

Illustration - MotoGP in the 2024 racing season will begin to implement the use of environmentally friendly fuels by minimizing the use of petroleum. (Crash)

JAKARTA - The fastest motorcycle race in the world, MotoGP will implement a policy of using fossil fuels starting in 2024. As much as 40 percent of the fuel used must be made up of non-smooth, before finally reaching 100 percent non-smooth and environmentally friendly in 2027.

The prototype of a motorcycle that uses a new type of fuel for MotoGP will be tested at the Misano Circuit in September. According to the Director of MotoGP Engineering, Corrado Cecchinello, the new fuel used for motorcycle racing is named eFuel and Biofuel.

The regulation that we introduce for the 2024 season is 40 percent of fuel must come from non-smooths, and this is determined by comparison between C-14 or young carbon and C or carbon. Young carbon is unproduced carbon for millions of years, not carbon as found in fossil fuels, "said Cecchinello as quoted by Crash.net.

Cecchinello explained that the source of fuel is not fossil, it can be produced from several methods.

If it uses the name eFuel, it means you use synthetic fuel. Either it is produced from the catch of elements in the air or whatever. I think this is a difficult way. There are easier ways to produce fuel instead of fossils with young carbon, namely Biofuel. This type of fuel can be produced by extracting materials from vegetables or biomass, not crude oil," Cecchinello explained.

MotoGP provides freedom for participants to innovate on new fuels that are not based on this petroleum and environmentally friendly. Whatever the method of manufacture, the important thing is that the final results of C-14 must be 40 percent by 2024 and 100 percent by 2027.

The goal of MotoGP is not only a matter of minimizing carbon footprint. More than that, pioneering technology that is worthy of being applied to the world, "said Cecchinello again.