After its debut in the 2010 Scirocco R-Cup the 275 hp VW Scirocco GT 24 will again be fielded at the Race of Champions in 2011. The world’s best racers will meet with each other in the biomethane-powered coupé at the Düsseldorf Football Arena on 3 and 4 December. 2011 Formula One world champions Sebastian Vettel is back [...]
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Rally of Champions 2011 Prepares for Vettel’s Revenge
December 1, 2011 – 5:45 pm
Germany, Düsseldorf
Team biogas.se Takes Home Gold and Silver in 2011 STCC
September 28, 2011 – 4:53 pm
After an exciting final weekend at Mantorp Park, Sweden’s “greenest” racing team, racing biogas fuelled vehicles, can call themselves Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) champions. The celebration was only dampened by the fact that Fredrik Ekblom missed the gold in the individual competition after a much-debated incident in the final heat. “This win is proof [...]
Ekblom Holds Slender Lead Before Final Event of 2011 STCC
September 15, 2011 – 10:28 pm
Sweden
With one race to go, driver Fredrik Ekblom of Team biogas.se holds the lead by a mere two points in the Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC). Driving one of three VW Motorsport Scirocco GT24 powered by biomethane, Ekblom drove to a second and seventh place finish in the two heats at Ring Knutstorp in Skåne [...]
STCC Stats Depict Quality of Biomethane VW Scirocco Combination
July 28, 2011 – 12:11 pm
Source: TouringCarTimes
Sweden
The Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) is halfway through its racing calendar for 2011, having completed 10 races over 5 weekends. TouringCarTimes has gathered statistics from this first half and, while the championship is a close fought contest, the numbers depict the powerful combination of biomethane fuel and VW Motorsport technology. The Scirocco GT 24 driven by [...]
CNG-Fueled Collegiate Racecar Sets World Record
July 4, 2011 – 2:42 pm
USA
Give engineering students a workshop to develop innovative vehicles and they are happy. Give them a race track to try out their creations and they are ecstatic. Give them natural gas for fuel and they become world record breakers. Oklahoma State University racing enthusiasts have set a record by running their natural gas-fueled formula race [...]
Biomethane-Powered Scirocco GT 24 Now Leads STCC Championship
July 3, 2011 – 12:55 am
Sweden, Falkenberg
Team biogas.se, with its three biomethane-powered 1998 cc VW Motorsport Scirocco GT 24 cars, has just cause to celebrate. After the fifth racing event of the Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) series held at Falkenberg, the fastest racing circuit in Scandinavia, driver Fredrik Ekblom goes into the lead of the Championship with 125 points. In [...]
VW Scirocco Triumphant at Nurburgring
June 29, 2011 – 11:16 am
Germany
Volkswagen Motorsport entered biomethane-powered 330 hp GT24 Sciroccos into the Nurburgring Nordschleife 24-hour event again this year and came up triumphant, just as it did in 2010, in the alternative fuel class and well as performing well in overall placings. Compared with conventional spark ignition engines the use of biomethane allows CO2 emissions to be [...]
Two Podiums for biogas.se at STCC Gothenburg
June 21, 2011 – 3:44 am
Sweden, Gothenburg
Team biogas.se’s Fredrik Ekblom took two new podiums when STCC visited Gothenburg last weekend. Driving a biomethane-powered VW Motorsport Scirocco, Ekblom performed impressively to take second place in the first race and third, in pouring rain, in the second race. The result places Ekblom a clear second in the driver championship, just two points behind [...]
Maxximus LNG 2000 Supercar Developed
June 7, 2011 – 1:01 am
Source: Inhabitat
USA
Designer Marlon Kirby and car builder David B. McMahan, already a successful world speed record-breaking combination, have set their sights on a ‘green’ record with their newest street-legal supercar offering, the Maxximus LNG 2000, reports Inhabitat. The 1600 hp V8 supercar runs on natural gas to create what they claim is the fastest green car on [...]
Scirocco R-Cup Spreads to Asia for 2011
May 28, 2011 – 4:03 pm
Germany, Wolfsburg, and China, Zhuhai
Volkswagen R GmbH, producer of the Scirocco R, has extended its sponsorship of the Scirocco R-Cup to Asia for 2011, with five events to be run in China and two in Malaysia. The Scirocco R-Cup Volkswagen uses natural gas technology (compressed natural gas / biomethane) in a one-make cup with identical touring cars. And for [...]
STCC Provides More NGV Motorsport Highlights
May 24, 2011 – 7:01 pm
Sweden, Mantorp Park
Team biogas.se has triumphed again at the Swedish Touring Car Championship with driver Fredrik Ekblom starting in pole position in his biomethane-powered VW Scirocco GT24 and winning the first race at Mantorp Park last weekend. The victory was his second of the season and takes him from sixth to second on the championship leader board. [...]
Biomethane Power Victorious at STCC Knutstorp
May 10, 2011 – 10:52 pm
Sweden
The Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) once again features two VW Sciroccos being raced by Team Biogas.se in 2011. Team Biogas.se has together with EON, Volkswagen and LRF proved in 2010 that it’s possible to win races in Sweden’s toughest racing series, STCC, with cars running on biomethane. Although off to a disappointing first round [...]
Biomethane-Powered Scirocco R-Cup Season Opens
May 5, 2011 – 10:13 pm
Germany, Hockenheim
Volkswagen’s one-brand motor racing season is underway again, with the first event of the 2011 Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup having been completed at Hockenheim last weekend. Driving VW Scirocco GT24s powered with biomethane, young Polish driver Mateusz Lisowski won his first race in front of Daniel Lloyd from the UK, with third place going to the [...]
World NGV Speed Record in Texan’s Sights
February 24, 2011 – 3:50 pm
USA, Texas
HighMount Exploration and Production, a natural-gas-focused energy company based out of Houston, Texas, is aiming to demonstrate the full power of natural gas as a vehicle fuel as it prepares a 2007 SL600 Mercedes-Benz roadster for speed events in the US this year. Chicago-based tuning firm Speedriven says that after contesting a speed event in [...]
Biomethane-Powered Program Promises Exciting 2011 Scirocco R-Cup
February 16, 2011 – 4:04 am
Germany, Wolfsburg
After its inaugural season in 2010 the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup heads into 2011 with an exciting calendar. The eco-friendly Volkswagen one-make cup encompasses eight DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) events with ten races including a new addition to the 2011 event schedule: the Red-Bull-Ring at Spielberg, Austria. The season opener and the finale for the biomethane-powered [...]
