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The Liquified Petroleum Gas-powered Super 2000 Honda Civic entered by Mardi Gras Motorsport and driven by John George in the 2004 British Touring Car Championship. It was the first alternatively fuelled car in BTCC history, after being converted to run on LPG through a collaborative effort between Mardi Gras Motorsport and the Dutch Prins Autogassystemen BV company.
Lack of pre-season testing and the car being 100kg overweight meant George was 6.5 seconds slower than the frontrunners at the Donington season launch. George proceeded to finish 4 of the first 9 races, peaking with 13th in Race 2 at Thruxton, being lapped every time. At Silverstone, he qualified 10 seconds slower than the frontrunners, the Civic was promptly parked. The team and George would return for the last 5 meetings with a BTC-Touring spec Peugeot 406 Coupe that was also converted to LPG. This led to marginally better results but still no points with 12th in Race 1 at Knockhill being the best.
LPG would have its moment in the sun in the 2010 BTCC when Team Aon converted their Ford Focus STs to "cook on gas" with Tom Onslow-Cole and Tom Chilton finishing 4th and 5th overall with 7 wins between them and Chilton winning the Independent Driver's title. TO-C had even gone into the final meeting at Brands Hatch with an outside chance of winning the outright title, only to retire from all three races but Team Aon still secured the first BTCC titles of any kind for alternative fuels.
(I've done the research)