INDIANAPOLIS — The IndyCar Collection and Indianapolis Motor Speedway are going inexperienced.
Penske Leisure, the mother or father firm of the collection, introduced Friday that it’ll begin implementing extra eco-friendly plans beginning with subsequent month’s Indianapolis 500. The race is scheduled for Might 29.
All tires delivered to the speedway will probably be relayed by electrical automobiles, and all electrical energy consumed on the speedway this Might will probably be bought via 100% renewable power credit. Race organizers say followers can also offset their very own carbon footprint by donating to the GreenTrees reforestation challenge, one thing the speedway will assist financially.
Different initiatives to be adopted this Might embrace expanded recycling and meals restoration packages and a retail retailer inside an electrical truck the place each merchandise offered will probably be reusable or designed from recycled plastic.
The Firestone Firehawk guayule race tire will probably be used throughout Carb Day’s pit cease problem and would be the alternate in August on the race in Nashville. The tire accommodates pure rubber derived from the guayule shrub, which organizers say requires much less reharvesting than conventional sources of rubber.
Lengthy-term plans by IndyCar introduced on Earth Day embrace expanded use of the guayule rubber tire and utilizing transporters that use renewable gasoline.