Japanese race to Dakar on crappy school cafeteria oil
Former Japanese F-1 driver to race Dakar rally on ‘tempura oil’
Wednesday July 26, 2006, TOKYO (AP): …..The turbo-engine Land Cruiser 100, sponsored by Toyota, will be the first car completely powered by biodiesel to enter the prestigious event, said Hidefumi Onaka, a lecturer at the Osaka Sangyo University, which helped test the fuel and provided technical support…The Dakar rally starts in Lisbon, Portugal in January next year. The race tests man and machine over 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles)…more...
The standard trite phrase to describe this event would be, “it is the test of man and manchine.” However in this case it’s a test of how effective crappy old cooking oil is. The “tempura oil” is described as “donated by students [from] the school cafeteria.” Eeeeh.
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