Lucas Oil Products teams up with college on motorsport challenge

30 June 2022  

Lucas Oil Products (UK) have teamed up with Bangor-based Coleg Menai to enable students on its Motorsport Engineering Level 2 programme to learn how fuel and oil additive technology is used to advance vehicle maintenance methods and improve performance.

The joint-venture is part of a programme running in partnership the US Oil manufacturer’s educational arm, known as the Lucas Oil Academy (LOA). At the end of the two-year initiative, the students, who will have been split into two teams, will have a race with cars they have using kits and recycled components.

Commenting on the programme, Arron Peel, Coleg Menai’s Deputy Manager for engineering said: “What an amazing opportunity for our students, who are among the first students in Wales to be schooled in oil and additive technology at the LOA. We are lucky to have students with the enthusiasm to take part as well as a dedicated team of training professionals at Coleg Menai who have worked hard to make a project like this possible.”

Dan Morgan, Director of Sales and Operations at Lucas Oil Products (UK), added: “The LOA project is an extension of our ‘grass roots to top rank performance strategy’, which involves educational initiatives, sponsorship for local organisations as well as other community projects.”