Castrol has sponsored the Ford World Rally Team and M-Sport in the World Rally Championship since 2003, and the Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT factory team from 2016, to 2019. It has also sponsored Volkswagen Motorsport activities in the Dakar Rally and later the World Rally Championship since 2005. Audi Sport's activities in rallying and touring car racing have been sponsored by Castrol, as well as its Le Mans Prototypes program since 2011. [9] BMW Motorsport was sponsored by Castrol from 1999 to 2014. Castrol R is a vegetable based oil that only really dissolves in what are called 'polar solvents' like ethanol, acetone, or a good one for washing it off is cellulose thinners. It is very reluctant to dissolve in petrol, which used to be a non-polar solvent, but is now a more vicious a solvent when it contains ethanol. It is equally reluctant to dissolve or mix with non-polar, hydrocarbon oils. Murphy's Abu Dhabi Date Clash Quandary". Speedcafe. 21 December 2009. Archived from the original on 11 September 2014.

Castrol Limited is a British oil company that markets industrial and automotive lubricants, offering a wide range of oil, greases and similar products for most lubrication applications. The company originally named CC Wakefield, the name Castrol was originally just the brand name for CC Wakefield's motor oils, but the company eventually changed its name to Castrol when the product name became better-known than the original company name. [1] In 2011, Castrol signed a four-year sponsorship deal for the Australian national rugby union team and as the naming rights sponsor of The Rugby Championship. [24] [25] Football [ edit ] In the case of Sir Charles Cheers Wakefield, later Baron Wakefield of Hythe, the sweet smell of success was more than a metaphor. You still catch the scent of the substance that made his company a household name in the early 1900s wherever older racing engines are exercised: that distinctive, heady perfume of Castrol R. Although castor oil, the origin of the smell, was still the purgative bane of many a childhood when C C Wakefield & Co introduced its Castrol range in 1909 (the name being a contraction of castor oil), to high performance engines on the road and in the air it was to become a more welcome part of the diet.Proud sponsors of the Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship". Archived from the original on 22 August 2012. Castrol Classic team Paul Williams and Giovanni Schule told The Corner in a media release: “We’ve had huge demand from suppliers and end-users to make this product available not only because of its multiple uses but also because of its great aroma. Castrol also briefly made an appearance in 1993 with Nissan in the British Touring Car Championship, [17] [18] where Keith O'Dor managed to win the 9th round of the season at Silverstone with his teammate Win Percy taking 2nd. [19] American football [ edit ] It is curious that we understand much better than its inventors the way Castrol R works, yet take it for granted. Keith Howard redresses that balance

In the 1920s castor oil was removed from general motoring oils as mineral oil technology advanced, but its superior film strength ensured it a continued role in high performance engines. Only in 1953 was Castrol R superseded by R20, again containing castor oil but this time mixed w,ith a semi-synthetic, and the successes began all over again. Mercedes-Benz immediately chose it for the advanced W196, Fangio scoring a first-time-out victory for both oil and car when he won the French GP in ’54. Even today castor oil remains the lubricant of choice in certain applications, notably methanolpowered two-strokes because of its complete miscibility with alcohol fuels. As a result you don’t have to go to a historic race meeting to catch that distinctive castor aroma. Appropriately, it can even be smelt where enthusiasts fly model aeroplanes. Hope the pic ain't too small to see but this is the extent of carbon build up after running the engine for years on a mixture of Castrol R40, plain modern mineral, part-synth, fully-synth, and sometimes a mixture of one, or more than one other of the aforementioned. Despite what they say about Castrol R not mixing with other oils I believe this to be a misunderstanding. On four-strokes where people use Castrol R in their crankcases I can see why they wouldn't mix, and this is where the warnings come in; but on the total-loss, burn the whole damn lot in the combustion chamber two-stroke, it seems not to matter.Success was almost immediate. In October 1909, Britain’s first aviation prize, the Inauguration Cup, was won by Frenchman Leon Delagrange using Castrol oil. Following which, on land and in the air, the litany of Castrol successes encompasses many of the most significant events in aviation and motoring history, including Britain’s winning of the Schneider Trophy three times in a row with the R J Mitchell designed, Rolls-Royce powered Supermarine S5, and most of the World Land Speed Records established during the highly competitive inter-war years. In the Great War, Castrol R even came to the attention of Kaiser Wilhelm II, achieving almost ‘secret weapon’ status when it was discovered that a captured British aircraft could operate at considerably higher altitudes than German equivalents due to its engine oil’s superior low temperature performance. Although Castrol R40 is primarily designed for the racing world, its unique properties can also benefit the private owner interested in really high performance. Semmens, P.W.B.; Goldfinch, A.J. (2003) [2000]. How Steam Locomotives Really Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.201–4. ISBN 0-19-860782-2. Castrol R40 is a castor-based lubricant containing specially prepared additives to prevent rapid deterioration through oxidation. Its superior oiliness over mineral oils, imparted by the chemical structure of its components, gives it a great affinity for hot surfaces and provides excellent load-carrying properties which is an important consideration with highly stressed engines running at peak revolutions. It can be used in racing engines, in gearboxes, as a two-stroke mix, even added to normal four-stroke engines and is made from the crushed seeds of the castor plant – a plant largely native to Africa and India.

Today we have a much better understanding of why this happens. Castor oil is composed almost entirely of triglyceride fatty acids, of which ricinoleic glycerides form by far the largest proportion (typically around 86 per cent). Fatty acids are polarised molecules comprising an oily, hydrophobic (water-hating) head and a hydrophilic (water-loving) tail; the hydrophilic ends of castor oil molecules are adsorbed to the metal surface, leaving the oily heads protruding.

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Wakefield mechanical lubricators on preserved LNER Class B1 no. 1306 Mayflower. The bright metal bar at the bottom is the reciprocating connection to the expansion link. Williams added: “I recently went to watch two-stroke motorcycle racing at Silverstone in England. They were using the product and I knew the smell from years of being in the business. The technical guys said Castrol R is now branded as Castrol 4T Racing Oil SAE 40.” I should say that I bought a 1L bottle of Castrol R40 and have tried adding it into my lawn mower and strimmer and it works a treat!!! I now have a racing smelling lawn mower and strimmer but not a GTV. In the All-Japan Grand Touring Championship, the 1997 championship-winning TOM'S Toyota Supra [11] (famous from the Gran Turismo series by Polyphony Digital) and later the Mugen Honda NSX had Castrol sponsorships. Toyota Motorsport had Castrol sponsorship in the World Rally Championship from 1993 to 1999, and Hyundai Motorsport did so from 2000 to 2002. Also, the Honda factory team at the World Touring Car Championship had Castrol sponsorship from 2012 to 2020. [10]

Captain Pugwash, I’ve heard about these problems quite a lot. I use Castrol R40 all the time and with regard to settling in the petrol tank I think there may be something in it. I rode my scooter (S2 TV175 engine) around this morning and there was frost on the grass and on windscreens. The old girl did seem to smoke a bit more than usual at first so perhaps the oil was starting to settle at the bottom of the tank. Time will tell on this score because I shall be riding her around whatever the weather. Charles Wakefield wasn’t slow to realise that here lay both an important new market for lubricating oils and, just as significantly, a whole new marketing opportunity also. The world was agog at the daredevil exploits unfolding on land and in the air; having your product name attached to such derringdo was a golden opportunity to exploit what today we would call product placement. So Charles Wakefield determined to produce a new breed of oil for this new breed of machine, and make certain that the world knew of it. left a job at Vacuum Oil to start a new business selling lubricants for trains and heavy machinery.

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Val Lube Car Care Center - Services". Archived from the original on 8 March 2010 . Retrieved 4 February 2013. Some steam locomotives were fitted with one or more Wakefield mechanical lubricators. These were normally mounted on the locomotive footplate alomgside the boiler, in a position where a mechanical linkage could be made with some point on the locomotive's valve gear or another moving part. The reciprocation of this caused a lever on the lubricator to oscillate, and this was converted to a small rotary movement by a ratchet. The gradual rotation caused a small amount of lubricating oil to be fed into pipes leading to the cylinders, valves and other parts. The amount of oil fed was in proportion to the distance travelled by the locomotive in either direction. [7] Sponsorship [ edit ] Motorsport [ edit ] Castrol sponsored NASCAR Pinty's Series (formerly CASCAR) Dodge Charger Toyota Motorsport Toyota Celica Perkins Engineering Holden Commodore VR When it’s time for an oil change, knowing the best engine oil to use is essential. The answer to that question gets more complex every day. The latest engines are getting smaller and more powerful all the time, and manufacturers are specifying complex full synthetic motor oils to cope with higher engine pressures and meet fuel efficiency targets.