Formula E - TV coverage
Discussion
cliffords said:
I think the fact the highlights are shown in 5 mins says it all.
It's deadly boring, it needs a huge format change to give it any interest, like adding big V12 engines perhaps.
For an electric series, I’d have the weight of the battery be excluded from the minimum weight of the car, and allow prototype batteries and motors with free rules about charging or swapping them during the race. It's deadly boring, it needs a huge format change to give it any interest, like adding big V12 engines perhaps.
Yes there will be a fire or two along the way, and one car might dominate for a season or two, but what the EV World needs is rapid improvement in battery technology.
Mercedes got out of FE because it was too much of a spec series, and the team built the EQXX prototype road car instead. It does 1,000km on a 100kW battery. https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/mercedes-vision-...
What a bizarre decision. Wasn't the idea of FE to 'bring the racing to the people' or some such?
Didn't even realise it was on, and there doesn't seem to be any way to catch up.
No hint of FTA races or even YouTube highlights so far.
So what's the point in it? The cynic in me has always thought that the series is just occupying a niche so that someone e.g. Formula 1 would one day have to buy exclusivity / naming rights to all-electric motor racing from FE.
I don't think I know anyone who's going to be willing to pay to watch it?
Didn't even realise it was on, and there doesn't seem to be any way to catch up.
No hint of FTA races or even YouTube highlights so far.
So what's the point in it? The cynic in me has always thought that the series is just occupying a niche so that someone e.g. Formula 1 would one day have to buy exclusivity / naming rights to all-electric motor racing from FE.
I don't think I know anyone who's going to be willing to pay to watch it?
Thanks all for the replies, personally I have no desire to actively search out Formula E online let alone pay to watch it.
For the past 5+ years I've enjoyed watching it evolve and the racing improve and have had the races and / or highlights series linked and over time got more involved in it to the point where I would watch most races and even attended one event in person (which was enjoyable).
Now it is basically out of my mind and I'll find other things to watch instead (such as Extreme E) which are available. It's a shame because I was getting more involved season by season and now it's gone and I suspect many others feel the same.
For the past 5+ years I've enjoyed watching it evolve and the racing improve and have had the races and / or highlights series linked and over time got more involved in it to the point where I would watch most races and even attended one event in person (which was enjoyable).
Now it is basically out of my mind and I'll find other things to watch instead (such as Extreme E) which are available. It's a shame because I was getting more involved season by season and now it's gone and I suspect many others feel the same.
They are probably contracted and/or sponsored/paid to do so they were throwing money around like sweets a few years ago and that company is always hounding for cash.
it is a simple enough premise, nobody wants it FTA, it doesn't pull in any viewers, so the FTA have all let it go, so the rights holder touts it to the highest bidder and makes them sign a 3 or 4 year contract. Just like WRC< MotoGP etcetc. Just because it is green doesn't make it any less of a product to flog as much as you can
it is a simple enough premise, nobody wants it FTA, it doesn't pull in any viewers, so the FTA have all let it go, so the rights holder touts it to the highest bidder and makes them sign a 3 or 4 year contract. Just like WRC< MotoGP etcetc. Just because it is green doesn't make it any less of a product to flog as much as you can
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