Formula E

It just not exciting. They need to be faster.

And I finally realized they sound like my Power Wheels I had as a kid.

 

Slow and way to many crashes

 

It looks and sounds like a remote control car race

 

Recorded a couple.
After watching a few minutes of the first one, mostly fast forwarded to near the end.
Nuked the second one without watching.

Actually made this season's F1 cars seem semi-interesting......or close....ish.

edit: May have recorded just one, but twice. Wasn't even tempted to record this weekend's when I saw it on the schedule.

 

The audio mix was TERRIBLE! They way over-pumped-up the (minimal) sound of the cars. I couldn't understand a word that DF (or most of what any other announcer) said...

And there couldn't be anything more telling of the utter impracticality of electric cars when they had to pit for a complete replacement after 15 laps

 

racing in uraguay right now.
pitstops changing cars instead of refueling.
without formula e what would all the scrubs from f 1 do?

 

I watched the race at Punto del Este, Uruguay. Not bad. At least there was some action.
I didn't like the track much, narrow and uninspiring, but at least the race gave this small country an occasion to hold and event.
Vergne was very good for his first race in an e-car, the first time he got into one: Pole and 2nd.
It seems that, regardless of the formula, talent is always a the front of the grid.
E-cars don't seems that easy to manage, with the "boost" option, the battery discharge, etc...Some drivers had to swap car earlier than other who dealt better with battery time.

Next year, we may see the introduction of several car makers, and the formula will progress rapidly.

 

It has a positive message but the logistics have doomed the series and its green credentials.

The fact that they need to fly two additional cars around the world than an F1 team does because their cars can't last an entire race over the course of a season probably burns more fossil fuel than the electric race cars are supposed to save over the traditional formula one engines anyway.

If the series grows the teams will grow too as will the equipment they travel the world with whilst burning yet more fossil fuel.The only thing green in Formula E is the message. Certainly not the reality of its operations.

 

I think that you completely miss the point here.
Formula E exists to promote electric cars and demonstrate the technology to the general public. If the rules are not too tight in future, it may become a showcase for the new technology, as well as a benchmark for its progress.
The affirmation that the Formula E circus may spend more fuel than the F1 circus has to be checked; it may be try, but that's not what is relevant here.
The world may have to do without fossil fuel one day, and we may even imagine the cars being flown in electric aircraft one day?

I predict that before long, an entire race will be covered with just one car.

 

I acknowledged that the message is green but nothing else about the series is.

I think by the time this series is able to travel the world in electric jets, we will all be racing drivers/stars racing at home with incredible VR sets. There will be little need for the real thing.

 

If the purpose is the *appearance* of "green racing" then they could have drivers sit in stationary props, while images of the tracks flow past on green screens.

 

Just watched the end of my first Formula E race ... love it. The racing was very good ... bit too much car to car contact, but they are fast and exciting to watch.

Pete

 

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I watched a bit of one from Berlin after the Monaco GP.
MINIMUM pit stop times (to switch cars!), good grief. Commentary centered around battery life. How exciting.
This gives me a new appreciation for F1, even in it's current dreadful state.
Good place to check the whereabouts of washed out F1 pilots though.

 

I wish F1 adopt that rule.

 

You're kidding, right?

 

I've tried to get interested in Formula E, but it's just not working for me. Hard to pinpoint why.
The week of the race in Miami they were still begging for course workers, which I learned from an email from the SCCA. The free hotel and working the race would have been fun, but to think that they didn't have enough stewards and course workers a few days before the event is either just a growing pain or very scary!

 

Absolutely not.

For me, pit stops should be neutralised; every car that stops spent a mandatory minimum time.
That's is operation in some series, and it works very well.
No need for plenty of pit crews, everything is checked and rechecked and no unsafe release.