Formula E

I hate to rain on your parade, but that appears to be a Hong Kong newspaper.

No more F-E on youtube? I went to try and watch the HK race and there was only a 5 minute highlight reel.

Watched the race live for the first time last Sunday, taking advantage of it being right after the Japanese GP.

What to say...there's potential, but it was quite a bit "meh" if I have to be honest.

It's got nothing to do with sound - if anything, the whine from the cars has an interestingly futuristic aura about it, and neither the speed (or lack thereof) is a problem; For example Touring cars tend to be even slower but you'd be hard pressed finding a boring race in these categories. What I'd call "production" values were also good - the music, the TV coverage, all very well crafted and, dare I say, with a "Nascar-ish" feel about it.

The cars look absolutely horrendous and, for the life of me, I can't understand why they didn't go for a classic single-seater design, which would also have served to underline the idea that EVs don't necessarily need to look ugly, silly, something out of Star Trek or in any way peculiar design-wise when compared to ICE engined ones.

The giant, huge, glaring issue was the Mickey Mouse track. Completely unsuitable even for bicycle racing, let alone cars. If the idea is to promote EVs with the public, they need to go a bit bigger when it comes to tracks - show that these cars can take on similar tracks to the ones combustion powered cars race on. I understand the idea of having races in the city centres, but make the tracks a bit wider and less twisty. Driving was occasionally appaling - although there were some good showings from select drivers.

All in all the idea is good and the potential huge - if there are any massive breakthroughs to be made in terms of battery efficiency, weight saving and duration, Formula E has the opportunity to be the platform of choice for these advances.

H3llR4iser wrote: »

Watched the race live for the first time last Sunday, taking advantage of it being right after the Japanese GP.

What to say...there's potential, but it was quite a bit "meh" if I have to be honest.

It's got nothing to do with sound - if anything, the whine from the cars has an interestingly futuristic aura about it, and neither the speed (or lack thereof) is a problem; For example Touring cars tend to be even slower but you'd be hard pressed finding a boring race in these categories. What I'd call "production" values were also good - the music, the TV coverage, all very well crafted and, dare I say, with a "Nascar-ish" feel about it.

The cars look absolutely horrendous and, for the life of me, I can't understand why they didn't go for a classic single-seater design, which would also have served to underline the idea that EVs don't necessarily need to look ugly, silly, something out of Star Trek or in any way peculiar design-wise when compared to ICE engined ones.

The giant, huge, glaring issue was the Mickey Mouse track. Completely unsuitable even for bicycle racing, let alone cars. If the idea is to promote EVs with the public, they need to go a bit bigger when it comes to tracks - show that these cars can take on similar tracks to the ones combustion powered cars race on. I understand the idea of having races in the city centres, but make the tracks a bit wider and less twisty. Driving was occasionally appaling - although there were some good showings from select drivers.

All in all the idea is good and the potential huge - if there are any massive breakthroughs to be made in terms of battery efficiency, weight saving and duration, Formula E has the opportunity to be the platform of choice for these advances.

What to say...there's potential, but it was quite a bit "meh" if I have to be honest.
Sundays race was not the most exciting and it was a new track.

The cars look absolutely horrendous.

They were revamped for this year as the front wings on the old cars had a heavy aerodynamic wheel guard on them that caused a lot of hassle and broke to easily. I don,t think the cars are horrendous they are a bit odd from some angles and nice from others but not horrendous.

The giant, huge, glaring issue was the Mickey Mouse track. Completely unsuitable even for bicycle racing, let alone cars. If the idea is to promote EVs with the public, they need to go a bit bigger when it comes to tracks - show that these cars can take on similar tracks to the ones combustion powered cars race on. I understand the idea of having races in the city centres, but make the tracks a bit wider and less twisty. Driving was occasionally appaling - although there were some good showings from select drivers.

I don,t think they are going to make the tracks wider anytime soon as the tight tracks make the cars look like they are going faster than they are a wider track would make the cares seem slower and they know that also been in city centres space is tight. I like that the tracks are twisty it keeps the drivers alert and creates chances for passing.

Marakesh event on today however the YouTube live feed has been geoblocked.

Ghost Train wrote: »

odd it's blocked, the online coverage was one of the big advantages of formula-e

TheChrisD wrote: »

But 3e have the race itself only; so now we have no coverage of free practice or qualifying.

At least the VLC streams still work: http://aos001feh-live.hls.adaptive.level3.net/formulae/live/wif/streamVideo2000.m3u8
Qualifying being replayed on the stream right now.

Sneaking suspicion they got the whole thing, but only air the race itself...the usual crud they have on 3e definitely attracts more viwership than Formula E

Harika wrote: »

Saw the two minutes highlights and yeah, might be enough. But what a stupid idea to geoblock the youtube streams.

Totally agree geoblocking the youtube streams was a really stupid idea especially when the race is over either have it there and let the fans watch it or lose fans simple as that.

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Buenos Aires this weekend.

Those gaps are simply too long.

AMKC wrote: »

Where is the race this time? I take it its on this weekend?

It on in Buenos Aries, Argentina this weekend.

^ Saturday.