From autosport.com

A diesel-powered car will race in the British Touring Car Championship for the first time this year.

Rick Kerry has announced plans to race a BMW 1 Series in the championship for this season, using a turbo-charged diesel engine.

“We anticipate we’ll have a bit less power than the petrol cars, but much more torque away from the grid and out of the corners,” said Kerry.

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That is the title of the article. This is only circumstantially diesel, but I was just amused enough by this Darwin Award candidate that I had to post it.

The writer of this story should also win some sort of journalistic award for writing as I can’t figure out what kind of car this actually is.

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