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3rd May 2006

Welter Racing the Thorigny Sur Marne, France based team, which has entered cars in the junior prototype class at the Le Mans 24 Hour race since 1992, has announced plans to compete with a bio-diesel powered car in the LMP2 class at the 2008 event.

The project will receive the support of the French organisation ADECA (association pour le développement des carburants agricoles - association for the development of agricultural fuels).

Design of a new chassis for the 2007 race is already under way; a conventional gasoline engine will initially power this in 2007 ahead of the introduction of a bio-diesel power unit for the 2008 race.

ADECA president Pierre Cuypers said, "The purpose of our association is to promote fuels of vegetable origin. These fuels are an ecological alternative to oil, which is in crisis today. France imports 97% of the energy resources which it needs today.”

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