F1's latest "green" initiative

[Daniel]

Nothing is carbon neutral.
It's just this idea of being carbon neutral that someone dreamed up in order to shut some people up.
First of all F1 is not a useful activity. I know that I watch it, but I question more and more everyday.
Secondly, just because they plant trees in the Amazon it doesn't mean that they don't produce lots of CO2. Just think about ow much fuel they consume over 1 race week end! It's incredible.

Agreed. The thing that gets me is that at some point some idiot is going to cut down the trees or whatever that make F1 carbon neutral so it'll negate any advantage there ever was to being carbon neutral. Now I don't believe that CO2 is causing these changes we're seeing now but I do firmly believe that if you're going to talk the talk you should walk the walk. In what year will the 2008 operations of Formula 1 be carbon neutral? By this time how many more tonnes of CO2 will be in the atmosphere. Planting trees and offsetting emissions against the future growth of those trees is a moronic way of doing it. It's this "yeah yeah yeah we'll sort it out in the future" mentality that may have got us into this trouble in the first place.

Again I just want to re-iterate that it's nothing personal Knockie I just hate this stupid notion of carbon neutral which is only neutral in the future and not now.

[schmenke]

... Just think about ow much fuel they consume over 1 race week end! It's incredible.

Not to mention the consumption of transporting teams and equipment from venue to venue every couple of weeks...

[ioan]

Not to mention the consumption of transporting teams and equipment from venue to venue every couple of weeks...

Yeah, that too.

[ArrowsFA1]

As initiatives go then green tyres are (to coin a phrase) "mostly harmless"

[Hawkmoon]

I don't know what you're all on about. If you paint something red to make it go faster then it stands to reason that you paint something green to make it environmentally friendly. It's a perfectly logical and well established fact. How else do you explain the fact that Ferrari are at the pointy end and Honda are at the decidedly un-pointy end?

[ShiftingGears]

Nothing is carbon neutral.
It's just this idea of being carbon neutral that someone dreamed up in order to shut some people up.
First of all F1 is not a useful activity. I know that I watch it, but I question more and more everyday.
Secondly, just because they plant trees in the Amazon it doesn't mean that they don't produce lots of CO2. Just think about ow much fuel they consume over 1 race week end! It's incredible.

In perspective, the fuel used by the cars in an F1 season is less than a jumbo uses from London to Sydney. I think planting the trees is a great idea.

What's more of a concern is how much the Amazon is being deforested.


Brainwave! How about the FIA get a gardener to work in the middle of Istanbul Park. So it doesn't look like a construction site.

[ShiftingGears]

Well, since it is Toyota's home turf, maybe we should be thankful we haven't heard any news of an upcoming Formula Prius series.

[ioan]

In perspective, the fuel used by the cars in an F1 season is less than a jumbo uses from London to Sydney.

And how many people does that plane transport? Not 20, for sure.
Did you also calculate the fuel they use during their private practice sessions?

[Daniel]

Well a 747 burns something like a tonne of fuel for every 3 or 4 tonnes of fuel it carries. I don't know what the fuel burn levels for f1 cars are but i bet they're betties than that.

[Dave B]

The tyres looked horrible on TV, and it was very hard to tell the compounds apart.