This has been in the pipeline for a few years I think. Electric motor racing essentially. Don't think there are any major drivers / teams involved, just lots of tree huggers on a jolly :)
The concept that Electric cars can be just as fast as their petrol guzzling twins isn't new, as McLaren proved with an electric version of their MP4-12 couple of seasons ago for an exhibition.
Not sure I'd be particularly interested in watching these cars race. Gimmie a nice v8 3.5L turbo charged engine roaring past me any day!
edit - reading through the website it sounds like McLaren are supplying the electrics for all the cars. 42 identical cars supplied by Spark Technology for a championship next season....
I'm sorry but I think this FE thing is a bit of a joke. I mean, the have to take two cars per driver to each race and the driver will have to change cars mid-race because the batteries won't last long enough! The cars are also going to be really heavy and pretty cumbersome to drive. Oh and a lack of engine noise...maybe they can get James Allen to just sit there going "vroom, vroom" in between his coco pops adverts
Formula E is absolutely 0% of interest to me since I found out it's going to be another spec-series, garage 56 at Le Mans and the all-electric Nissan are far more interesting imo.
Quote ( Dave Berrisford @ June 24th 2013,20:38:03 )
so then more places get to host big races.
i wouldn't say BIG races, this is an electric series like the TT zero. for one thing i will take a while to be noticed and it will take a bit of time to get the cars developed to have half decent speed. but mainly the noise will be diabolical.
The calendar for the 2014/2015 season is up, thought I'd share it with you guys:
Round 1 Beijing, China* 20th September 2014 Round 2 Putrajaya, Malaysia 18th October 2014 Round 3 Hong Kong, China 8th November 2014 Round 4 Punta del Este, Uruguay 13th December 2014 Round 5 Buenos Aires, Argentina 10th January 2015 Round 6 Los Angeles, USA 14th February 2015 Round 7 Miami, USA 18th April 2015 Round 8 Monte Carlo, Monaco* 9th May 2015 Round 9 Berlin, Germany 30th May 2015 Round 10 London, UK 27th June 2015
(*) Subject to ASN approval All events remain subject to FIA Track Homologation.
Looking forward to seeing how the series does in 2014 :)
They have now released the 1st 8 teams and some big teams as well OVERVIEW DRAYSON RACING CHINA RACING ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT DRAGON RACING E.DAMS SUPER AGURI AUDI SPORT ABT MAHINDRA RACING
2 more to go I will def make sure I watch these races it sounds a bit of fun especially when these races Round 3 Hong Kong, China 8th November 2014 Round 4 Punta del Este, Uruguay 13th December 2014 Round 5 Buenos Aires, Argentina 10th January 2015 Round 6 Los Angeles, USA 14th February 2015 are in the off season :)
Very good drivers will be in formula e indeed. I will watch it for sure and i'm happy to see Jaime Alguersuari back on racing. I hope one good season in FE and he will find place in F1 again.
Very good drivers will be in formula e indeed. I will watch it for sure and i'm happy to see Jaime Alguersuari back on racing. I hope one good season in FE and he will find place in F1 again.
Anyone noticed that the old Stig is in there?
By the way, that's not the official line-up, it's a list of Formula E endorsers who are willing to race in the series.
Very good drivers will be in formula e indeed. I will watch it for sure and i'm happy to see Jaime Alguersuari back on racing. I hope one good season in FE and he will find place in F1 again.
Anyone noticed that the old Stig is in there?
By the way, that's not the official line-up, it's a list of Formula E endorsers who are willing to race in the series.
Yep. We all know if he does race, The Stig will win obviously.
notice how they have put 3 or once even 4 corner numbers to a simple chicane in a lame attempt to look like there are a decent amount of turns in the race...... I detest most street circuits and this whole series is going to be made of them. Throw it in the bin now
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