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Originally Posted by TheNewBob
A very outdated comment. Petrol is here for a while yet but the future at the top step of the Le Mans podium is reserved for other technologies. To spend money making a petrol car go quicker is only ever going to be a short term solution, and if Toyota want to make a positive impact after F1 then they'd need to show commitment to the future of automotive technology, and they'd need to prove that they can make it work. That future is very unlikely to involve petrol.
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The demise of Petrol?
All cars have to be originally powered by something even Hyrid cars, diesels have advantages but so to has petrol. Plug in electric cars are clean at point of delivery but the most inefficient when taking everything into consideration so are they the future? probably not.
The development of lean burn petrol engines which are in some cases more efficient than diesels could put an end to diesels we just can never know for sure what will happen. However oil produces both petrol and diesel as part of the refining process so you might as well use both.
Racing teams will try to gain any advantage over the other teams as regulations favour one type of fuel they will use that, as time goes by the first team to spot that the advantage has moved elsewhere will be happy to jump at the oppurtunity to take advantage of that