Formula E Beijing

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eps

6,297 posts

269 months

Wednesday 17th September 2014
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For the first season the cars are all the same.

Remember as well, that they Practice, Qualifying and Race all on the same day. There isn't a great time to go through all the data and the drivers and teams should make quite a big difference in terms of setup and then possibly changing the setup even after something like Qualifying. They don't have 2 sessions and then a night to crunch the numbers overnight. Some of them may well have been quite conservative in terms of approach and setup. I'm not sure if they all went to the Dono test. Some of the drivers and possibly the team staff have been involved at the highest levels of motorsport but this formula is quite new in a number of aspects.

JonRB

74,549 posts

272 months

Wednesday 17th September 2014
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eps said:
Remember as well, that they Practice, Qualifying and Race all on the same day.
It's a very city-friendly race series - deliberately so I imagine. You only need to close the roads for a single day, and the NIMBYs and greens are happy as it is low(er) noise and zero local emissions*

(* - yes, I know it is not zero emissions overall, but the power stations that generate the electricity are elsewhere, which makes it zero emissions at the race location.)


eps

6,297 posts

269 months

Wednesday 17th September 2014
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JonRB said:
eps said:
Remember as well, that they Practice, Qualifying and Race all on the same day.
It's a very city-friendly race series - deliberately so I imagine. You only need to close the roads for a single day, and the NIMBYs and greens are happy as it is low(er) noise and zero local emissions*

(* - yes, I know it is not zero emissions overall, but the power stations that generate the electricity are elsewhere, which makes it zero emissions at the race location.)
It will only get greener as the way we generate electricity gets greener...

dtrump

2,120 posts

191 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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I hope this first season goes on with more excitement and I hope in the next season the series learns what is needed to succeed, grows and improves.

I also fully expect the whole idea to die out until it's at a suitable level to offer at least some level of motorsport value