Eh I do like the idea of the cars being hybrid, but I think they went way too far with it. I would love for the cars to be v8 or v10 with a light hybrid system. One that’s really only able to store enough energy from one heavy braking zone, and good for only a few seconds of deployment, something like a 50kw motor with a 100wh battery. The drivers could choose to either use that energy immediately on corner exit, or try to save for an overtake later. But they would need to get rid of that energy before the next braking zone, otherwise they would have a full battery which means decreased braking performance.
I think that would give us dynamic racing, the screaming engines we all love, and still have the hybrid tech that they like advertising and is somewhat relevant to manufacturers, while still being lighter than the cars we have now
the screaming engines we all love
“we all”? I don’t. It’s bullshit that has absolutely nothing to do with race action. On TV you cannot experience it at all and live it’s just damaging the ears, making hearing protection absolutely necessary. Also, the rumbling gets old quite soon. After a few laps it’s just there and nothing special at all.
That engine noise fetish is a marketing ploy by the fossil fuel lobby. In motorsport entertainment, the on-track action has to be good. That’s it and that’s 100% unrelated to noise.
I agree! The focus should be on great wheel to wheel racing, I find it crazy that so many people focus on how it sounds :/
I think you’ll prefer formula e then
I think you’ll prefer formula e then
I prefer any form of good racing. I don’t fetishize noise.
There is more good racing in 5 laps of Formula E than an entire season of snormula yawn. Then we can talk about MotoGP.
For context: Ralf Schumacher is being paid by Auto1 Group who operate used car sale platforms around Europe. He has a personal interest to promote fossil fuel cars that make up the vast majority of used car sales. He’s not impartial.
Shouldn’t a used car sale platform be pretty indifferent about fossil fuels vs electric? Whatever cars are built and sold new today, electric or not, will be the used cars of tomorrow.
He also was a formula 1 driver that has a perspective on what the sport used to be like and is giving his opinion which, mind you is framing what the current drivers are also saying with some more context beyond it’s not “fun”, point is there’s no underlying secret plan here, no more than the one he mentions from F1 itself which is to make the sport have more money by having more constructors.
