There's already a "Formula E" for EVs. Does anyone watch it? Last time I saw it, a couple years back, they had to change cars mid-race, because the EV's wouldn't go race distance on one charge, and the recharge time was too long for a race to take place on one day. Until you can "refuel" an EV with a ten minute pit stop, mandating EVs would severely curtail the mobility of citizens.
the NY eprix was on TV last night. There where about 50 people there. Tickets are 10 bucks. Viewing figures aren't very impressive either despite their constant push. Free to view as well as far as I know. Average of 31 million per race. F1 gets around double that for a single qualifying session!
+1 - Bored rigid, Formula E will be F! IMHO we are all being hoodwinked into the EV revolution by suspect technology and on a green surfboard. I have friends who own EV cars and they cannot wait to get rid of them. Cost per mile may be cheaper (for now) but then electrical charging doesnt have the fuel duty most governments have slapped on a gallon a fuel. Uk around 80% is tax. The only way they can realistically now plug the fuel tax black hole is charging to travel per mile. The EU Galileo satellite is set up for it. If i run out of fuel i can put a gallon of fuel in a can, little more difficult to put 50kw into a jerry can!!
Just about everything is poorly thought out. So ****ing sick of it. Remember when all of a sudden Diesel was the best thing ever and incentives where given to people buying diesels? Suddenly from 1 day to the next it was the fuel of satan again and people with diesels just had expensive paperweights...It'll be the same when these pseudo environmentally ''friendly'' cars will be exposed for what they are and we'll all be expected to drop it all and go all in on the new hype. Cluster****.
In order for a current F1 piston to last the 5 race weekends it is required, each piston costs on the order of $50,000. A complete Cosworth engine back in their day was $100,000 and accounting for inflation maybe $300,000, which got rebuilt for $40,000 every time it was used.
Yep. To quote: Go back to 2008 and the V8 cost around £110K for a full engine. A lower RPM V12 wouldn't cost all that much more today. Yet current engines are confusing and don't sound interesting, cost at least 50x that money...each.
Cosworth or else would have no financial support from the motor industry to bring back NA V10 or V12, and without that, can't afford it. "F1 cannot go back to the Flintstones engines" said Toto Wolff. The past is the past and belongs to the past. F1 is about new technology, it's not a museum. It would soon become decadent if it revisited the past.
If F1 needs to be about new technology (not sure where you get that from but whatever), it will be fully electric. Guess what, that championship already exists so... If F1 is about new tech why was ABS, TC, SC, variable ride heights etc banned? Doesn't sound like they try very hard to be all about new tech. PS Cosworth spend 15 million developing the V8 for 2006. The 4 liter V12 I proposed in this thread shouldn't cost any more, probably less even. They'll make their money back pretty quick.
