Formula E - Gen.2

[Deleted User] wrote: »

So they're all about conserving power yet failing to use up power when it's unnecessary yields a penalty?

For attack mode yeah. Otherwise drivers may decide not to even bother trying to get attack mode in the first place.

Deleted User wrote: »

Is that the silly going-off line thing?

Sorry not just trying to be awkward here but in this case if he had the power does that not mean he ran offline to get the power-up but then just didn't use it all in time? I just don't get the point.

You could strategically choose to only activate your second attack mode right at the end, so you could save the power you would otherwise end up using during the attack mode, and use it earlier in the race to gain positions or to pull enough of a gap so you don't lose much ground when going off-line to take the attack.

AM is really the only available strategic option the series has right now, so there has to be some threat to prevent the teams from ignoring it. Just think of it as a Joker lap.

The recalculation killed it. 1 Minute and 1 lap to go 20%left, recalculation happening suddenly 6% left.
But here the race leader could have crawled to the restart to reduce the last two laps to one.

rock22 wrote: »

Is Sunday's race also on Quest?

Qualifying not on Quest this morning and I cannot seem to find the schedule for Today's(Sunday's) race on any channel

thanks

I do not think it is. I can not find it either. Probably just highlights somewhere later. I would say this one is behind a pay per view somewhere where I do not know.

A race here in Vancouver next year up the road from me. With the horrible past few weeks I have had, and more recent good news, a race in the city I live in...a nice smile brought to my face.

Charlie-Bravo wrote: »

Eh, it's race week...:)

Monaco this weekend with just the one race, on Saturday at 3pm. Qualy is at 11am in the morning.

Usual stations: Virgin Media Sports (Ireland), Eurosport 2 (Ireland and UK) and BBC iPlayer (UK broadband connection needed).

So not live anywhere then. A pity. I will just have to watch the highlights if there is any. There was none for the second race of the last weekend out in Spain.

Well this turned out to be the De Costa v Frijns for the lead race that was up untill there was only 15mins +1 lap to go which I never get by the way when Mitch Evan's in the Jaguar passed them both but then a safety car was called because Rene Rasts car had come to a stop on the track going up the hill with damage to the front of his Audi car. Rene Rest was fighting for 7th place with Nick Cassidy when he ran out of room trying to pass him and hit the barrier. The restart after the safety car proved very exciting with De Costa putting the pressure on Mitch Evan's and trying to take the lead back from him. Then Nick De Vrius the championship leader and Gunther had a coming together. A yellow flag was called but no full course yellow or safety car which was a surprise considering that De Vries car was still on the track. The racing was very close throughout and then on the final lap coming out of the tunnel De Costa on the outside managed to get by Mitch Evan's but had a huge lock up but managed to hold on and win with Robin Frijns just getting but Mitch Evan before the finish line to get 2nd and Mitch Evans in 3rd.

Cars looking really good at this track.

Whilst Race 1 in Valencia showed how things can dramatically go wrong in FE then the opposite can be said of Monaco. What a great race from start to finish. The bravery of Evans up to hill to pull off that overtake on Da Costa!!! And likewise for Da Costa to pull of what was the race winning move on the final lap against Frijns coming out of the tunnel, unbelievable scenes. The funny thing is that in hindsight Da Costa would have had him at the end anyway since Frijns had to coast over the line when he hit 0% usable energy. It made the F1 yesterday seem dull by comparison.