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Text from Warren Menezes article:  Goodwood Revival will race exclusively on sustainable fuel this week. Sustainable fuel developer Anders Hildebrand speaks on the fundamentals, challenges and an alternative path for a green future.

Goodwood Revival 2024, a vintage motorsport event, will create a landmark moment for historic racing on September 6-8 when all cars will race exclusively on fuels containing at least 70% sustainable components at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex.

As the race to sustainability picks up pace, Anders Hildebrand, founder and managing director of Anglo American Oil Company, has become a key player fuelling that very race.

His company has been a longstanding partner of Goodwood and has developed and supplied them with racing fuels built on sustainable components.

The race to sustainability started in 2023 when the Fordwater Trophy, for pre-1965 Porsche 911 race cars, was run to the 2023 FIA sustainable fuel regulations, which then had the 70% sustainable component criteria.

For 2024, the FIA, the international body for motorsport, has amended this regulation and split it into two categories: 50% sustainable or 100%.

As the first race at the 2023 Revival was deemed a huge success, Goodwood decided to stay with 70% sustainable components for 2024.

Sounds progressive, right? Some might wonder why not make the jump to a 100% sustainable fuel?

It is far more complicated than that.

But before drilling into the intricacies of these lower carbon-emitting energy sources, let’s look at a much more surface-level question.

What are sustainable fuels?….

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