- Diesel-powered sports car also fast on street circuit
- Allan McNish quickest in LM P1 class despite accident
- Marco Werner seventh in “sister” Audi

The two Audi R10 TDI sports cars will start Saturday’s second round of the American Le Mans Series in St. Petersburg (US state of Florida) as fastest LM P1 prototypes from the second and the fourth rows of the grid. In the first ever appearance of the revolutionary diesel-powered sports car on a street circuit, defending champion Allan McNish headed the field in the last free practice session on Friday. He also set the pace with the 650-hp R10 TDI at the beginning of qualifying before being relegated to third position by the fastest two LM P2 sports cars.

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From Resource Investor

SHANGHAI (Interfax-China) — China’s rapeseed-based bio-diesel industry is still at an early stage despite the country’s position as the world’s largest rapeseed producer.

However, this is slowly changing as new advances in production techniques lower costs and government initiatives promote alternative fuels. Growing demand from the world’s bio-diesel industry has already led to a surge in China’s rapeseed oil exports, and demand from the energy sector may start playing an increasingly important role in China’s domestic rapeseed market.

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Not much news these last couple of days, but at least it’s given me time to get the host I’m moving to ready.  I should be getting ready to post about the new site in a couple of days.   Hang tight.