Formula E

It's going to be an unpopular opinion, but I really don't like it. Yep, "futuristic" blah blah blah, but it's not a "formula" car, as it's not open wheels. Put some headlights on it and it's a sports prototype. Don't call it "Formula E" at this point, call it "E-Race" or something like that.

As a "race car", rather than a "Formula" car, it's ok-ish, even 'though the lines are extremely complex and convoluted - I find it funny that people complain about how "dirty" modern F1 racers look, compared to those of the '80s and '90s, then get excited about something that looks like a mini-4WD. Aesthetically often less is more - that's exactly the reason why cars like the Lotus 78 and the Jordan 191 are considered the most beautiful ever built.

I understand the need to capture the imagination of modern ADHD Youtube-grown kids, but I feel they're missing an important train here - with a more conventional, F1 or F2 like design if you will, they'd deliver the message that electric traction doesn't really require a complete revolution of everything you know about cars; In layman terms, "look, electric motors are good enough to power what is basically a F1 car".
Instead, they're going the "cool new thing" route, which is always divisive.

Harika wrote: »

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Funny that you say that, a friend of mine is working in the automobile industry and developing E-cars and one of their biggest challenge is the interior sound as we are so conditioned to the petrol or diesel engine noise that a silent car causes stress as a rolling silent petrol car would do.
Same with people on the outside that are conditioned to rely on their ears and while they should look left and right, very often only listen to conclude if a street is safe to pass.

In all fairness...unless you live in a town full of Lambos and Ferraris, most modern-ish (say, last 20 years) cars don't produce that much engine noise when traveling at city speeds - the most of the sound is tire rolling noise, of which EVs produce just the same level.

Round 4 on today at 6pm from Chile.

Patww79 wrote: »

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3e. Essentially we're never getting the online streams back because they actually stepped up and committed to showing the entire season :mad:

astrofluff wrote: »

It's also on Spike today. Not sure if 3e or Spike does HD.

Not sure if either are in hd. Channel 5, spikes mother channel has hd but I think that's it.

Ok I miss the noise

But by god it’s excitin

Just back from walking the dog, did I miss something interesting?

It’s good to see ex formula 1 drivers racing well

And then they come together at the front :rolleyes:

Very lucky if the top two get away with that

Hard to see there not being some incident before the end

Autosport wrote: »

Anyone else watching this on 3e

lol, nope. The old VLC stream was actually working today and worked for most of the practices and quali. But outside of that, VPN unlocking the YouTube stream; or there's a bloke on the FE subreddit that streams the world feed for those geoblocked.

H3llR4iser wrote: »

Pet peeve - why the heck to British commentators call it "FormulaR E" or "Formula RE"? I mean, quite literally all of them do so - how hard is it to say "Formula E"?

There accent is all. Thank got we no formula turty tree in ireland

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Mexico tomorrow.

Lol. I still have the last race to watch. At least its not on till late tomorrow evening.

Not long now till the Mexico race starts. Cars are on the grid.

Anyone vote on the driver boost thing?

I like that they've removed the minimum pit stop time. More chance of errors which spices it up.

Ghost Train wrote: »

Hoping there will be some move for second or third before the end. Hasn't been great

Stupid of 3e to go to ads with 3 laps to go

3e is an absolute joke.

Race will be over by time it gets back

Probably worth complaining to formula E about the coverage, 3e shouldn't be allowed broadcast live motorsport after that

Ghost Train wrote: »

Stupid of 3e to go to ads with 3 laps to go

And this is why dodgy online streams, VPNs and the secret VLC link will always be the most popular choices for tuning in to F-E.

And 3e take another long break so we can miss most of the podium too.