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| Shell Executive Vice President Andy Brown and Marc Gene with other Shell staffers at the company’s pavilion at the Qatar Motor Show |
The company stall has on display its smarter mobility theme focusing on creating and sustaining better energy efficient solutions and lower CO2 emissions targeted at next generation motorists.
Among the main highlights is the highly efficient cars developed by students of Texas A&M and Qatar University (Tamuq), which competed in the Shell Eco Marathon in
Berlin last year.
At a briefing yesterday, Shell executive vice president Andy Brown expressed happiness at his company joining the show as a diamond sponsor of the Qatar Motor Show.
“The show is an excellent platform for Shell to showcase its focus on innovation and efficiency and products to promote smarter mobility. This is clearly highlighted as an outcome of our technical partnership with Scuderia Ferrari, considered to be one of the oldest and most successful partnerships in motorsport. The long-standing partnership which spans over 60 years has enabled Shell to demonstrate its innovation in developing advanced fuels and lubricants for road users and customers worldwide,” said Brown.
Joining Brown at the ceremony was Scuderia Ferrai test driver Mark Gene who gave a spectacular display on the Corniche on Saturday at an astonishing speed of over 300km per hour.
Gene, while recalling his Saturday performance, felt it would go down as a unique experience as it was perhaps held along an extremely scenic stretch watched by auto buffs. “The experience was simply amazing and it thus stood different from all my previous displays,”
said Gene.
“The nearly 3km track and straights gave me an opportunity to provide the spectators with a unique experience,” he said, adding the lubricants from Shell have given very high fuel efficiency to the vehicles that he has been using at displays and races.
