Happy Friday!

As the new year approaches, we thought it would be good timing to share this article from Motor1 - 10 Cars You Can Legally Import To The US In 2024

It comes at an interesting time considering the rumours that we’ve got two of those vehicles coming for auction shortly, to support the launch of our latest partner, Caffeine & Octane…

We won’t say which ones from the list, but here’s a totally unrelated photo of a Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R 🙄

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This 2020 Lamborghini Super Trofeo EVO2 is now available from the good folks at P1 Groupe.

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Ruote da Sogno coming in hot with this 1973 BMW 3.0 CSL known as the ‘Batmobile’..

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News Racers Can Use

Sustainable Motorsport and its Open-Ended Future

There was a time when sustainable motorsport meant only one thing and that was battery electric. Nothing else was really on the horizon. My how times have changed. Now, alongside battery electric (BEV), manufacturers are testing hydrogen as a means of propulsion in both combustion and fuel cell varieties. We also have various series running on fossil fuel-free synthetic fuels (eFuels). Everything from the Porsche Super Cup to the Goodwood revival to, in 2026, Formula 1 are racing, or will be racing with some form of synthetic fuel.

Another exciting development is the European Truck Racing’s approach to sustainable motorsport. They are hoping to create a form of Balance of Performance that will allow trucks using any of the above propulsion technologies to compete at the same time.

World RX are taking a similar approach for 2024. They will be allowing electric and ICE-powered cars to compete against each other in a “Battle of Technologies” in an exciting new direction for the series.

Finally, companies like Carbon Positive Motorsport are allowing competitors to offset their unavoidable emissions when necessary.

Honda Performance Development president David Salters said it best in Marshall Pruett’s recent Road & Track article “Adapt or Die: Motorsports’ Knife-Edge Push to Go Electric” and I quote:

As the auto industry progressively trades gas pumps for charging stations, most corners of the motorsport world have adapted. That’s a good thing. The fact that most racing series cannot agree on a single choice of powerplant shouldn’t be perceived as a problem; it’s a gift with an open-ended future. “Not so long ago, we weren’t sure what we’d be racing with. But right now, it’s super exciting because racing is being used for what racing is really good at, which is agile development, fast development, making things smaller, lighter, more powerful, through different solutions,” says Honda Performance Development president David Salters.

Far from being frustrated or wary about motorsport’s future, I think that the innovation brought upon by these sustainability initiatives will bring us an exciting future where the essence of racing will remain the same. The only thing that will change is the power used to get us across the finish line.

News Racers Can Use is written by Mark Boudreau from Motorsport Prospects