Gear Sports

Motor sport insiders and car enthusiasts are certainly well aware that power statistics alone are only half of the story when it comes to attaining high performance. It is the sum of vehicle, driver and technical support that counts. In Pierre-Henri Raphanel, a driver has been found who has the necessary combination of experience and class. The Castrol EDGE-technology has a proven combination of first class qualities, as was demonstrated in an extensive test programme. An acceleration test, for instance, was conducted whereby an engine was accelerated to nearly 260km/h and 14,000rpm – more than twice the engine speed of a normal production car. Compared to conventional motor oils, the top speed was reached more than one second quicker by the engine with Castrol EDGE-technology. On a race track, that translates into an advantage of 85 metres.

To meet these seven criteria, the Castrol EDGE range was subjected to a worldwide series of extremely severe tests, which were conducted both by company - internal experts and by independent test institutions. In these tests, Castrol EDGE proved that, compared with conventional engine oils, it lasts longer under extreme conditions, accelerates better and is less sensitive to extreme temperature. The oil’s endurance, for example, was proven in a long-term experiment in which two identical vehicles had to continuously drive up a 6.5 percent incline at a speed of 120km/h – equivalent to climbing Mount Everest once every 70 minutes. The engine with conventional oil broke down in the end, but the Castrol EDGE unit simply kept on running. Even in the refrigeration chamber at -15 degrees Celsius, Castrol EDGE flowed three times quicker to where it was needed in the engine block and allowed a 32 percent faster ignition process.