.IndyCar, which returns to the iconic brickyard on Sunday for the 107th Indianapolis 500, has advanced the use of green technology in everything from fuel to tires. Indy500
The emergency care Damar Hamlin received was a byproduct of extensive emergency planning. In motorsports, medical personnel train for such situations.
“Nothing goes into a landfill,” said Cara Krstolic, the director of race tire engineering and manufacturing for Firestone, which has been working on a renewable tire for more than a decade. Instead of sourcing the material from rubber trees in Southeast Asia, the new tires, which debuted last August at the Music City Grand Prix in Nashville, are made from guayule, a shrubby low-water-use plant found in the deserts of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
And just as Firestone hopes to take its new tire technology from racing to the consumer market, Shell believes its new fuel will someday be available at the pump as well. “Obviously we have a platform here. We have a responsibility to promote sustainability,” said Tim Baughman, IndyCar’s senior director of track safety. “And we need to be good stewards of that. I think that’s our role.”
Before the pandemic — and before “Formula 1: Drive to Survive,” the popular behind-the-series Netflix docuseries now in its fifth season — motorsport was dying, Clarke said.
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