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Earlier this year, we saw the addition of a fourth fuel option to the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) when it was announced that Dyson Racing would be running bio-butanol in its Lola-Mazda coupe. This past weekend at Mid-Ohio, the Dyson car managed to score its first victory in the sixth race of the season in a nail-biter over the Honda-powered Highcroft ARX-01c.

While the Dyson Lola managed to snatch the overall victory by half a second, it only came in third in the Michelin Green X Challenge rankings for the LMP class behind the E10-fueled Highcroft machine and the E85-fueled Intersport Lola. As expected in GT, the Green Challenge results were dominated by cars running on cellulosic E85. The Flying Lizard Porsche 911 of Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long got their second Green wind of 2010 and continues to lead the standings ahead of the two Corvettes. Ten of the 12 cars in GT now run on the biofuel.



[Source: American Le Mans Series]

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