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If you're looking for a sign of spring but the weather won't cooperate and the crocuses aren't yet in bloom, look no further than the start of another race season in sunny Florida. Next week, the American Le Mans Series will run the Twelve Hours of Sebring with a green twist for 2008.

The series had earlier announced that it will allow E85R fuel on the track, and GM took them on up it by entering a flex-fuel Corvette in this year's series. In late February, Intersport Racing became on of the first teams in the series to run a car using the fuel on the track, in their Lola racer.

The organizers of ALMS have gone a step further: every one of the cars on the track in Sebring will be using one of three "green" fuels: clean diesel, E10, or E85. Ethanol has been getting a bit of a bad rap lately, but at least this is a step in the right direction.

Photo of Intersport Racing's Lola by John Thawley.