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LONDON, 6
March 2009 At a press conference in London's Living Room the zero
emission race series, Formula Zero, announced that its next championship
round will take place at the go-kart circuit of Brands Hatch,
alongside the motorsport circuit. Six top university teams designed
and built their own hydrogen electric vehicle, that will race
as a support category at the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport event
A1GP Brands Hatch, Great Britain on 13 May.
This will
be Formula Zero's second championship round after the world premiere
in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in August 2008. The university teams
from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and the
United States battled for position zero, which is the same as
winning in the world's first zero emission race series that is
using hydrogen and fuel cells. Spanish EuplatecH2 won the sprint
race, while the Dutch Greenchoice-Forze was the best team during
the main race. In terms of championship standings; Greenchoice-Forze
is closely followed by Solvay Umicore Zero Emission Racing Team
from Leuven, Belgium.
"We are really
excited to bring the Formula Zero Championship to the UK, a country
with an amazing history in motorsport. Even though the current
recession is painful for the automotive industry, innovations
that are necessary for sustainable mobility are supported in major
EU and US stimulus packages. So the motorsport industry is also
at the beginning of one of the most dramatic changes in its history
yet," says Formula Zero's Managing Director, Godert van Hardenbroek.
About Formula
Zero
Formula Zero
was founded in 2003 and promotes well to wheel zero emission technology
through motorsport. Formula Zero is a new zero-emission race class
for cutting edge open single seaters. Zero emission racing is
the perfect platform for researching and marketing the advanced
propulsion technologies of this century such as fuel cells and
batteries. Formula Zero appeals to a new generation of race fans
by promising unexpected technological innovations, racing on challenging
locations, zero emissions and a futuristic sound. This race class
will scale-up to full-size racing cars, as commercial interest
and the technology are developing at a rapid pace. One rule stands:
all cars will produce zero emissions.
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