{"id":32870,"date":"2025-07-30T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32870\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:42:07","slug":"2027-motogp-fuel-spec-agreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32870\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 MotoGP fuel spec agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 2027, fuel in all Grand Prix classes will be 100% non-fossil. It has now been agreed that the 100% non-fossil nature of these fuels will be assessed via the C14 test.<\/p>\n<p>The C14 test measures the fraction of C14, which is the shorter-lived carbon isotope, missing in fossil substances due to its decay over a long time, over total carbon, and compares it to the standard levels found in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>For 2027 MotoGP fuels, these figures should be the same minus a tolerance, meaning the C14 content of the fuel sample should be the same as the atmosphere, ruling out the possibility of the fuel being of fossil origin.<\/p>\n<p>The fuels will therefore no longer be obtained by means of crude oil refinement and they may in principle be:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 either bio-fuels i.e. fuels obtained from bio sources<br \/>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 e-fuels obtained by direct atmosphere CO2-capturing<\/p>\n<p>The combustion of non-fossil fuels releases the same amount of carbon that has before been captured. MotoGP took a major step in this direction in 2024 by mandating that fuels contain at least 40% non-fossil content. This transition will now continue with a fully mandated shift to 100% non-fossil fuels by 2027, marking a significant departure from current fuels, which are predominantly derived from crude oil refinement.<\/p>\n<p>Read the official GPC document <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.motogp.pulselive.com\/motogp\/document\/2025\/07\/30\/ff2bbd99-1065-4fca-83ea-94174fc08aeb\/Decisions-of-the-Grand-Prix-Commission-July-2025.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From 2027, fuel in all Grand Prix classes will be 100% non-fossil. It has now been agreed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128,83],"class_list":["post-32870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}