In 2007, Peterborough based Team Inzane Laverda became the first team in the UK to compete in motorcycle road racing with a high performance bike running on E85, (a blend of 85% bioethanol and 15% petrol). The team's Italian Laverda Formula 650 machine competed in the 2007 UK Mini Twins Championship.

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CCM Motorcycles is one of Britain's most famous two-wheel manufacturers and in 2007 became the first manufacturer to offer racing with environmentally responsible bioethanol fuel.

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Jenkins Motorsport Developments, a family-run truck racing team based in Staffordshire, took the decision to be at the forefront of energy efficiency in British truck racing and to demonstrate what can be achieved with a bio-diesel fuelled race truck.

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Barwell Motorsport successfully converted a petrolfuelled Aston Martin DBRS9 to run on bioethanol and challenged for the title of the 2007 Avon Tyres British GT Championship. Barwell realised that motorsport can make a real difference in changing perceptions and stimulating innovation, as being more environmentally responsible plays an increasingly important part in the future of the sport.

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Ratt Racing, a small independently owned engine preparation company based in Torquay, is the first team to convert a conventional Mini to compete using E85 bioethanol fuel. The team has successfully competed throughout 2007 in the Dunlop Motorsport News Saloon Car Championship, the Donington POWERnights and the Extreme Mighty Mini Championship.

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Oaktec, a small race team based in Lancashire, became the first team to compete in a petrol/electric hybrid vehicle by optimising a Honda Insight hybrid to compete in the Formula 1000 Special Stage Rally Championship. Competing throughout 2005 – 2007, the team has developed and optimised the vehicle, showcasing the performance and energy efficiency benefits that can be achieved. They have also demonstrated the use of bioethanol with the hybrid system.

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Delta Motorsport, based at the Silverstone Technical Park in Northamptonshire, is an engineering and design consultancy that thrives on engineering challenges across a wide range of race car and non-race car project work. It is Delta's ability to transfer knowledge - taking learnings from motorsport, applying them to automotive and then bringing more learnings back to motorsport - which has produced its unique, energy efficient motorsport project.

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Imperial College London is an exceptional University with a deserved reputation as a world leader, ranking 3rd in Europe and 5th globally in the 2007 Times Higher Education Supplement.

Energy is one of Imperial's key research themes with high calibre research activity in the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, the Centre for Environmental Policy, Centre for Transport Studies and the Energy Futures Lab.

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Regulatory changes introduced by the governing body for international motorsport - the FIA - now permits Formula One teams to collect, retain and reuse kinetic energy that would otherwise have been wasted, as heat, under braking. The rules allow for the use of a number of technology options to store the energy, including batteries, ultracapacitors or flywheels.

Williams F1 opted for a flywheel-based Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) and the flywheel energy storage element has been developed by Williams Hybrid Power (WHP). The novel, patented, electromechanical flywheel technology which WHP has successfully engineered, is now being further developed to provide a cost effective, environmentally-friendly solution for mobile or stationary energy recovery and storage applications beyond motorsport.

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The 2007 Formula Woman Championship was the first in the UK to convert to biofuel for all its Caterham Roadsport cars. Simple modifications were carried out by EEMS Campaign Partner, Minister Power. They prepared all the engines, fitting a 'piggyback' Full Flex unit that sensed the fuel mix and adjusted fuel flow thereby avoiding the need to modify the sealed engine control unit.

Although this was a highly competitive novice championship, there was 100% engine and mechanical reliability and the cars' performance was improved on the E85 bioethanol fuel. Already a championship that attracts high media interest, this was further enhanced with these environmental improvements demonstrating that converting to bioethanol has benefited this starter level motorsportchampionship.

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