RE: Embracing our electric future
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Motorsport has always been a platform for development, so seeing as electric cars are here to stay, to me this is a logical development.
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suffolk009 said:
I'm looking forward to the 24h.
...and seeing as one of the big issues with EVs is range & recharge time, IMO a 24hr race is the way to go.M
camel_landy said:
Motorsport has always been a platform for development, so seeing as electric cars are here to stay, to me this is a logical development.
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Be like a WWE Royal Rumble, Last Man Standing.suffolk009 said:
I'm looking forward to the 24h.
...and seeing as one of the big issues with EVs is range & recharge time, IMO a 24hr race is the way to go.M
The Crack Fox said:
"Sustainable" - Please f
k off with such language. How is building a new car, using all those materials, charging it, using all that electricity, and then racing it, which means going round in circles for no discernible reason, ever be "sustainable". Please, fk off, and I mean right off, not just a bit, properly off.
This. We should make the track one way and save kittens at both ends.k off with such language. How is building a new car, using all those materials, charging it, using all that electricity, and then racing it, which means going round in circles for no discernible reason, ever be "sustainable". Please, fk off, and I mean right off, not just a bit, properly off. This has potential. I wafted around in a P85+ for a week and loved it. A P100D is properly quick, so using that as a start point and building a race car is a very interesting thing to do.
I however feel their using a P85+ as a demo screams "underfunded". I read an Autocar story ages ago which said that the Electric GTs would be racing at Silverstone last September. So it all feels as though it's struggling.
But what really kills it is the Tesla Roadster. Why race the saloons when that exists?
I however feel their using a P85+ as a demo screams "underfunded". I read an Autocar story ages ago which said that the Electric GTs would be racing at Silverstone last September. So it all feels as though it's struggling.
But what really kills it is the Tesla Roadster. Why race the saloons when that exists?
I used to know someone who wrote on about Formula E on a semi professional level (and had been an F1 fan for donkeys years). For various reasons they eventually gave up, but I do think some of it was down to lack of outside engagement.
Like many others the reason I love racing (having been a marshall mostly at Oulton Park) is the smell of tyres, fuel and all the rest of it. Along with the noise! When the V8's and V10's of F1 were still around you could not hear properly for a few days after...
As the crack fox rather bluntly put it above...this can fk right off.
Like many others the reason I love racing (having been a marshall mostly at Oulton Park) is the smell of tyres, fuel and all the rest of it. Along with the noise! When the V8's and V10's of F1 were still around you could not hear properly for a few days after...
As the crack fox rather bluntly put it above...this can f
k right off.Edited by Ninja59 on Thursday 23 November 13:00
amgmcqueen said:
shakotan said:
Formula E seems popular though?
The viewing figures are pitiful!Motor racing is not, in general, a popular sport.
suffolk009 said:
amgmcqueen said:
shakotan said:
Formula E seems popular though?
The viewing figures are pitiful!I understand that this was an actual threat but it wasn't clear who would actually care or who would notice.
I'm sorry, why does it have a PC in the dash? What could a driver need that for in the middle of a race? I've never liked Tesla, I think the Model S has aged badly and I think this is about as dull as a race car could get. Race cars should smell like petrol and testosterone and sound like they want to kill a few crowd members, they shouldn't be silent like this. I'd also say that whole sustainable stuff the spout is bullst anyway, especially in a racecar.
t anyway, especially in a racecar. stuart-b said:
The Crack Fox said:
"Sustainable" - Please fk off with such language. How is building a new car, using all those materials, charging it, using all that electricity, and then racing it, which means going round in circles for no discernible reason, ever be "sustainable". Please, fk off, and I mean right off, not just a bit, properly off.
This. We should make the track one way and save kittens at both ends.k off with such language. How is building a new car, using all those materials, charging it, using all that electricity, and then racing it, which means going round in circles for no discernible reason, ever be "sustainable". Please, fk off, and I mean right off, not just a bit, properly off. 99dndd said:
Motorsport has always been a good place to test, develop and refine road car technology.
Well, in 1965 i would agree with you. In 2017 er no. I have test rigs, simulations and specific road car test facilities that are far, far better at developing the tech than actually racing it! IME, modern motorsport is so competitive that the solutions developed to enable one team to eak out a 0.01% advantage and win a race are too expensive, and way too complex and difficult to manufacture in volume for a road application......
Oh, I don't know maybe we are being a bit harsh on the E-racing.
I mean, this doesn't really sound that good in reality, does it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz5JoGJaHMY
I mean, this doesn't really sound that good in reality, does it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz5JoGJaHMY
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