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San Antonio, Texas · Since 1975
Nobody asks for a fuel.
They arrive with a problem.
You smell it before you see anything. Walk into a paddock on a Saturday morning and it arrives before the noise does — sweet, sharp, chemical, nothing like the forecourt. Anyone who has spent a weekend at a circuit knows it instantly and cannot describe it, and it goes somewhere a photograph does not reach.
That smell is the whole company. Fifty years ago a handful of people in San Antonio started mixing fuel for racers who had run out of options, because the pump would not give them what they needed and the big refiners were not interested in a problem that only existed for a few thousand engines.
That is still the whole job. Every blend exists because somebody walked in with an engine that nothing on the shelf could feed.
More than just a reveal...
VP Racing names Ida Zetterström — 2023 FIA European Top Fuel champion, now racing NHRA Top Fuel — as the feature of its 2027 calendar.
In July 2026, VP stopped exporting to Europe and started operating in it
VP Racing Fuels acquired Pro Energy Fuel Limited outright — a European supplier of aviation gasoline, racing fuels, oils and related products — and put its European headquarters in Sligo. The distinction that matters is ownership rather than arrangement. A distributor agreement is a contract that can lapse. An acquisition is a company, with staff, stock and an address, and it does not go away when a contract year ends. Everything on this site now ships from inside Europe rather than to it.
Sligo
The European headquarters, on the north-west coast and beside an airport.
Wrocław
Inside the continental road network, where a pallet goes by lorry.
Rotterdam
The largest port in Europe, which is how volume arrives.
How a blend gets built
A custom fuel is not mixed at the track. It takes months, and most of that time is spent proving the thing is repeatable before anybody is allowed to buy it.
The complaint
A team, a series or an engine builder describes what is going wrong — detonation under boost, a rulebook that just went unleaded, an altitude that is killing the tune-up.
The constraint
Sanctioning body limits come first. Lead, oxygen content, specific gravity and dielectric all have to land inside the window tech will check at the scales.
The bench
Component selection and small-batch blending in the lab. Distillation curve, vapour pressure and octane get measured rather than estimated.
The dyno
Back-to-back pulls against the closest existing blend. If it does not make more power or survive more timing, it does not go forward.
The season
A real team runs it for a full season before it becomes a product. Something that works once is a sample. Something that works in August is a fuel.
The drum
Production blending, batch testing and packaging. The number that matters after this point is how little the fuel varies from drum to drum.
Colour-coded for the paddock
Pull a jug at any paddock in Europe and the colour tells you what is in it before you read the label. The colourless ones are colourless deliberately, which is itself information.
Fuel is one part of what VP supplies in Europe. The range also covers oils, additives, coolants, traction compound and fuel containers.
The catalogueWe're not only a catalogue. We're in the paddock.
Official Fuel Partner of the Winter Series for 2027, official partner of the Summit Racing EDRS Series, and the team running the refuelling zone at DTM and Porsche Carrera Cup weekends.
Oil, coolant and brake fluid built for a different job
Everyday fluids are built for commuting and long service intervals. See what changes when the engine is working hard.
Not racing? The same chemistry for your chainsaw.
Ethanol-free, virtually no smell, no carbon deposits. For garden, forestry, karting, classic and marine engines.
The part that can be checked
Fuel companies all claim horsepower. The only claim worth printing is the one with a name and a date attached to it.
Getting hold of it
At the track
Trackside distribution at European rounds, sold in litres from the drum.
On the shelf
A dealer network across Europe carrying the blends the local paddock actually runs.
Direct
Teams and engine builders buying by the drum or the pallet, on a season contract.