{"id":5160,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:30:03","slug":"2009-alms-season-will-see-a-new-manufacturer-join-new-fuel-maybe-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5160","title":{"rendered":"2009 ALMS season will see a new manufacturer join, new fuel maybe coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2008 Detroit Sports Car Challenge<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><br \/>\n <\/em><\/strong>American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/le+mans\/\">Le Mans<\/a> Series CEO Scott Atherton visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/Detroit-Auto-Show\/\">Detroit Auto Show<\/a> last week and talked about the successes and challenges the series faces in 2009. Racing series&#x27; around the world are losing teams this year as a result of the worldwide economic slump, and the American Le Mans Series is no exception. In spite of both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/audi\/\">Audi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/porsche\/\">Porsche<\/a> withdrawing as full-time participants in the prototype classes, Atherton is optimistic. Audi won&#x27;t be racing full-time, but its new R15 TDI will make its world debut at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/11\/28\/audi-r15-tdi-to-debut-at-sebring-attack-le-mans-in-june\/\">season opener in Sebring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also coming at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chrysler\/sebring\/\">Sebring<\/a> will be the announcement of a new manufacturer joining the series, possibly as soon as the race at Long Beach. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/mazda\/\">Mazda<\/a> is also expanding its involvement its involvement through a tie up with Dyson Racing. Hoping to take advantage of the Green Challenge that will be a full season aspect of ALMS this year, an energy company has approached Atherton about introducing a fourth fuel to the current mix of E10, cellulosic E85 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/diesel\/\">diesel<\/a>. Yet another manufacturer is hoping to introduce a new type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hybrid\/\">hybrid<\/a> technology as well. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/greenfuelsforecast.com\/ArticleDetails.php?articleID=681\">whole story at Green Fuels Forecast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.aolcdn.com\/dims-global\/dims3\/GLOB\/legacy_thumbnail\/1049x590\/quality\/80\/http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2008\/08\/dspc08-1280-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/01\/22\/2009-alms-season-will-see-a-new-manufacturer-join-new-fuel-mayb\/<\/p>\n<p>2009-01-22T17:59:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2008 Detroit Sports Car Challenge<br \/>\nAmerican Le Mans Series CEO Scott Atherton visited the Detroit Auto Show last week and talked about the successes and challenges the series faces in 2009. Racing series&#x27;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10247,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions\/10247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}