Formula E 2015/2016 season
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On now on ITV4.
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Round Date City Country
4 6 Feb 2016 Buenos Aires Argentina (tbc)
5 12 Mar 2016 tbc tbc
6 2 April 2016 Long Beach US
7 23 or 24 April 2016 Paris France
8 21 May 2016 Berlin Germany
9 4 June 2016 Moscow Russia
10, 11 2,3 July 2016 London UKOn now on ITV4.
A few tech updates, looks like a single car is being aimed for in season 5 - http://current-e.com/features/spark-set-for-s3-tech-updates/
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It's just crap. Sorry, I'm watching the race in Berlin, I've watched a couple of the other ones too and it's just rubbish. Noise is important, race cars need noise, but the tracks are terrible, bumpy and the racing seems to be typical single seater fare. I want to like it, but I just can't get into it at all.
The problem for me is the cars look out of sync with how they drive.
They have the look of a fast single seater but they have the performance of a small tin top. They are also massively over braked (carbon disks ffs!) and woefully under tyred.
Steel disks, proper tyres, and a revamped look that gets them away from looking slow would do wonders. They need to be smaller too, given the tracks are so narrow most of the time.
They have the look of a fast single seater but they have the performance of a small tin top. They are also massively over braked (carbon disks ffs!) and woefully under tyred.
Steel disks, proper tyres, and a revamped look that gets them away from looking slow would do wonders. They need to be smaller too, given the tracks are so narrow most of the time.
They certainly look flimsy. They also look ponderous and slow, which will be down to many things, not least the lack of noise. The whole idea of racing around streets I understand, but the tracks mostly seem thrown together. The London event was appalling, too narrow, to tight, to slow, bad viewing, who is organising this crap. They could have done so much more with this than they are doing at the moment. Start by removing the wings and trying to make them look like single seaters of current series.
The wings provide no function other than astetics either. They are regularly broken or knocked off with no effect, and they aren't going fast enough to create any down force.
The Roboracer concept looks awesome, they should make the cars look like that instead.
The Roboracer concept looks awesome, they should make the cars look like that instead.
This new big for the 2018 chassi looks good:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/124782/new-bidder-for-formula-e-chassis-revealed
Its more aligned to an LMP2 car with some bodywork removed than the single seater style current chassis. Having the wings attached to the wheel bodywork is good for rigidity too, and it looks a hell of a lot more 'futuristic' than the boxy design of the current chassis.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/124782/new-bidder-for-formula-e-chassis-revealed
Its more aligned to an LMP2 car with some bodywork removed than the single seater style current chassis. Having the wings attached to the wheel bodywork is good for rigidity too, and it looks a hell of a lot more 'futuristic' than the boxy design of the current chassis.
Man of Honour
Did anyone go or is going today?
Soldato
Digrassi is utterly shameless. deserves a life ban for intentional crash not to mention trying to block Buemi's fastest lap attempts.
complete disgrace. I hope the officials are ruthless and make an example of DiGrassi
complete disgrace. I hope the officials are ruthless and make an example of DiGrassi
Man of Honour
did anyone do the free testing day at Donington last year?
worth going to?
also any idea if they are still on course to open up the formula in 2018-2019 season. with only one car per race, much larger batteries and no standard chassis, that's when I will get really interested in it, when teams can go radical on technology.
worth going to?
also any idea if they are still on course to open up the formula in 2018-2019 season. with only one car per race, much larger batteries and no standard chassis, that's when I will get really interested in it, when teams can go radical on technology.
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