Mission accomplished for H24 at Spa-Francorchamps
MissionH24, a collaborative programme between the ACO and H24 Project, has been present at the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (round three of FIA WEC) since Thursday.
Its various actions during the WEC race week have had one objective: to promote hydrogen in competition.
Exhibited in the hydrogen village, in the middle of the fan zone, the H24 - an electric hydrogen racing prototype - has attaracted a lot of attention from fans. After refueling at the H2 mobile station developed and operated by TotalEnergies, the H24 completed several loops of the legendary Belgian track at the end of the morning, a few hours before the start of the race.
Among them, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, secretary general of Hydrogen Europe, was particularly attentive to these demonstrations, as were the participants in the H2 forum, co-organised by Automotive Skills Alliance, GreenSkillsforH2 and Skills Alliance for Industrial Symbiosis and the ACO.
Pierre Fillon, President of the ACO and co-president of MissionH24, as well as MissionH24 partners, Richard Mille and Pierre-Gautier Caloni (TotalEnergies), Frédéric Lequin, CEO of FIA WEC, Bernard Niclot, innovation manager for the ACO, Dr Wolfgang Ullrich, consultant and Amaury Bertholome, general director of the Spa circuit- Francorchamps, witnessed the zero-emission running of the H24 from the side of the track.
Next round: at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where the H24 will take to the track on Saturday June 15, alongside several hydrogen prototypes, notably the Alpenglow Hy4, revealed yesterday (10 May) at Spa.
