PurePlus is an absolute break-through technology.
There’s no other motor oil that has been
made this way. When you think about the innovation
that’s gone into this product, the innovation
has been 40 years in the making to do something
of this magnitude. I’m a science fiction
fan and when you think about we’re able
to make a motor oil out of natural gas, that
feels like something out of the future.
Imagine crude oil to be like a muddy river.
Now imagine natural gas to be like a clear
water vapor.
So if I go to a muddy river and I take a cup
of water from that river and I filter the
water it will still have impurities left in
the water. However, if I condense water vapor
or steam into a cup of water, that water would
be much clearer and purer than the water that
I got from the muddy river. In the same way,
base oil made from natural gas is purer than
base oil which has only been refined from crude oil.
So if you think about traditional refining,
traditional creation of base oils, you’re
starting off with big long-chain molecules
and you keep trying to sift out the longer
chains from the impurities, and you arrive
at a pretty satisfactory base oil. If you
turn that process on its head and you start
building up these bigger molecules from much
smaller ones, you arrive with a base oil that
is 99.5% pure.
Pennzoil Platinum with PurePlus base oil starts
out clear and pure. When we add our high-performance
additives, it turns it a nice golden yellow
color. These base oils and high-performance
additives provide complete engine protection
without compromising any one area.
Complete protection includes cleaner pistons,
better fuel economy, horsepower protection,
unsurpassed wear protection, and extreme temperature performance.
I think one of the things that’s really
exciting about PurePlus based oil is that
it’s really the best of both worlds.
So it helps you in cold temperature climates
because of its really excellent cold properties,
but it also helps you in hotter temperatures
because it has very low volatility.
If you think about a modern car engine, it’s
a very complex system, and keeping all aspects
of that system clean is really very important
to keep it running as designed.
Pennzoil Ultra Platinum with PurePlus Technology
is able to keep pistons up to 25% cleaner
than Mobil 1, up to 35% cleaner than Valvoline’s
SynPower and up to 40% cleaner than Castrol
Edge with Syntec.
So one of the benefits of being a small team
like SRT, you know, we work very closely with
Pennzoil.
And the tight tolerances that we require is
exactly the benefit that Pennzoil Ultra Platinum
with PurePlus Technology gives us. Being a
gas to liquid technology which changes natural
gas to liquid provides a much purer oil base
than you can get from crude oil. It has less
impurities in it than crude oil does, which
allows you to now add the additive package
and get a very complete system.
For the last two years now we’ve been racing
the new Viper and it also uses first fill
from Pennzoil Ultra Platinum. And we found
that the oil that we’ve put in our passenger
cars is good enough for the race.
Motor oil to me is probably the most important
thing in a race car. The motor is the heart,
and luckily enough with Pennzoil Ultra Platinum
with PurePlus Technology, it separates everything
apart from the other oils that I’ve driven.
I just remember this year in Le Mans when
we’re at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, going
flat out at 200 miles an hour down the back
straightaway, it’s an added confidence for
the driver to have this oil in your motor.
When we take some of our vehicles out to go
break a speed record and we’re turning 200+
miles per hour and pushing 8,000+ rpm, Pennzoil
Ultra Platinum is the only oil that we’ll
trust to give us protection from friction.
I’ve been around cars my entire life. And
this is the most exciting and innovative advancement
in motor oils in decades.
I trust Pennzoil Platinum technology to help
my team win on the track. I trust Pennzoil
Platinum to protect the cars that drive off
our dealership service lots. And I trust Pennzoil
Platinum in my own garage. It’s going to
be a real game changer.
