Racing car with chocolate

British scientists have launched a unique race car called WorldFirst that can reach speeds of 200 km / h, made from potatoes, carrots, soybeans and fueled with extraction oil. from chocolate.

The WorldFirst racing team stands beside the product. Photo: Daily Mail.

WorldFirst is primarily made from vegetable fibers such as carrots, soybeans, and potatoes. It uses vegetable oil to lubricate moving parts and own a biodiesel engine. Fuel for the engine is vegetable oil and the oil extracted from chocolate. However, the inventive group wants the waste in chocolate production to become the key ingredient in the production of biofuels for the engine.

Scientists at the University of Warwick say their race car is the fastest-growing bio-fuel car. WorldFirst is also the only car produced from the plant. The design team confirmed that they conformed to the technical standards for the Formula 3 racing car during the manufacturing process.

The research team expects their product to reach speeds of up to 232 km / h when running on racecars. They tested it at a speed of 96 km / h and were tuning the engine before letting it run at full speed (200 km / h).

Much of the material used to make the car is derived from plants. Photo: Daily Mail.

Although it meets most of the standards of Formula 3 racing, WorldFirst can not enter the race next year because it uses biofuels, which is contrary to the rules of the race. All Formula 3 cars today can not run on biofuels.

James Meredith, director of the WorldFirst project, says the car has set a new record.

"In order to produce a race car, people have to invest a great deal of money." During their operation, their fuel costs were very high, so we came up with the idea of making cheap cars and cars. Environmentally friendly, WorldFirst shows us that we can make cars from plants without sacrificing speed, " he said.

WorldFirst will be exhibited in a number of European races, such as the Grand Prix and the British Goodwood Festival.