Shell V-power Tour

[R31Nismoid]

All.

I've been lucky enough to receive an invite to a select event on behalf of Skylines Australia forum/site, and the SAU-Vic club as a whole.

This entails a Tour of the F1 Paddock, Ferrari Garage and the Track Lab at the F1 GP this weekend

As a part of this there will be a Q&A session with Shell Technical Engineers & Track Lab team members surrounding Shell, fuels and so on.

If anyone has something they would like me to specifically ask about then post up here and I will endeavour to attain an answer for you

Im permitted to take photo's and so on, im not sure what exactly that might be yet however, hopefully some cool gear.

Post up the tech questions!

This is posted in Forced Induction also:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Sh...da-t262611.html

Thanks to Endelmen Public Relations (Con Frantzeskos) & Shell for such an opportunity.

Perhaps this is my own "Red Jacket" of sorts?

Cheers

Ash

[180Roman]

ask what RON do F1 cars run

[ashneel]

ask them

if you can bring an extra person and pick me

do they have any ethanol mixed in the fuel for the F1 cars???

how many liters of fuel do they project to go through for the 3 days.

[paulr33]

do shell plan in introducing ethanol based products for the domestic market?

given the trends towards green fuels and better emmissionions & competitors such as BP already have 95ron with Ethanol (E15)

[_Ryan_]

do shell plan in introducing ethanol based products for the domestic market?

given the trends towards green fuels and better emmissionions & competitors such as BP already have 95ron with Ethanol (E15)

alot of shell's have E10...

[180Roman]

yeah, also interested to find out when shell is going to add E85 to their lineup. There is only 1 station with E85 near me and its United Bulleen, so untill there is more, its not very convenient.

[Jetdat]

tell them to bring back v-racing 100 octane and make it more available, actually tell them to make it 105 octane

[Phatboy]

tell them to bring back v-racing 100 octane and make it more available, actually tell them to make it 105 octane

+1.

They only need to sell it at one station in the city eg.,Nth or Sth Melb one. All of us have to go to the city at least once per tank.

[R31Nismoid]

I already know some of that (from last years meeting), as should a few others

V-Power Racing was LESS than 1% of sales or production... vs the cost it wasn't viable or something close to that marker.

E85 (last year) they were not looking into then... however its now 6 months later - so i will certainly ask that one!

[AGE]

I have 2 quick questions....

"Why does Australia get shit rated fuel"?, and "Why does Optimax(or whatever there calling in nowadays) foul 2-stoke spark plugs"?

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

<br />yeah, also interested to find out when shell is going to add E85 to their lineup. There is only 1 station with E85 near me and its United Bulleen, so untill there is more, its not very convenient.<br />

<br /><br /><br />

not even.... buleen doesn't have e85.... united are just ghey and disorganised

[SS8_Gohan]

+1 on the E85 question..

so it's only hoppers United that has it now? Kingsway still doesn't have it? i'm hanging on Kingsway... when they get it, i get it tuned

[eMsta]

why the hell is petrol so expensive! thats one question you can ask them

[180Roman]

Sooo.......

The weekend is over and I think we would all like to know what was asked and what was some of the responses from Shell.

Especialy on the E85 topic

Cheers

[R31Nismoid]

Ill be doing a write up over the next few days for you all

[R31Nismoid]

Ok - Review of the event posted guys

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Lo...ll-t264505.html

Have a bit of a read... some questions are answered.

Please give me your feedback on it too

Cheers

Ash

[180Roman]

Nice write up Ash

I just still cant believe they run 102RON fuel in F1s, im guessing it would be leaded fuel?

Also wondering what compression is run in the F1 engines?

Cheers

[Phatboy]

Nice one Ash.

Hmmm they have BP ultimate 102 RON in the UK. Didn't realise F1 just used 98-102 RON. Thought they would've had some insanely expensive race-prepping additive with millions of dollars of research in it...