McLaren has announced that it will supply the electric engine, transmission and electronics for the FIA's new Formula E series.
That's awesome!
Posted 13 November 2012 - 10:47
McLaren has announced that it will supply the electric engine, transmission and electronics for the FIA's new Formula E series.
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Posted 13 November 2012 - 11:16
Posted 13 November 2012 - 11:20
Spend less time designing crap for some crap series no one will care about, more time winning WDC and WCC
Posted 13 November 2012 - 11:40
Posted 13 November 2012 - 12:24
McLaren to power FIA Formula E Championship
That's awesome!
Posted 13 November 2012 - 14:20
Im just upset and lashing out sir
Edited by johnmhinds, 13 November 2012 - 14:23.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 14:30
Spend less time designing crap for some crap series no one will care about, more time winning WDC and WCC
Posted 13 November 2012 - 14:38
Upset at what though?
It wont be the F1 team that builds these engines.
Are they still planning on using this design for the cars?
Posted 13 November 2012 - 14:40
Only one question, why?A car looking like that's gonna get the crowds.......... Running the other way.........
Posted 13 November 2012 - 14:40
Posted 13 November 2012 - 14:46
If, as it appears to be, that racing can be brought to inner-cities, then go for it. New designs/technology is the future. Today's cars are nothing like I envisioned when I became hooked on F1.If teams don't get the opportunity to develop their own powertrains, then what's the point of the series? Get the spectators used to all-electric car racing?
Posted 13 November 2012 - 14:47
Only one question, why?
Posted 13 November 2012 - 14:49
Proportions be damned.Because it looks horrid. Get the proportions right and I can se some merit in the design.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 14:53
Edited by johnmhinds, 13 November 2012 - 14:53.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 14:57
Posted 13 November 2012 - 15:25
If, as it appears to be, that racing can be brought to inner-cities, then go for it. New designs/technology is the future. Today's cars are nothing like I envisioned when I became hooked on F1.
Edited by Risil, 13 November 2012 - 15:25.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 15:28
Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:10
I was mainly comparing it to this. If the future is one-make everything then that's not worth embracing.
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Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:13
Because it looks horrid. Get the proportions right and I can se some merit in the design.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:18
Are you thinking that all series will converge? I don't think they will. However, I do think that there is a future for technology. Not to replace but to augment.I was mainly comparing it to this. If the future is one-make everything then that's not worth embracing.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:21
F1 is just about at a one-make point in terms of how the cars look.
I wonder when they will just do what IRL did and have an outside company build a chassis for every team.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:22
Are you thinking that all series will converge? I don't think they will. However, I do think that there is a future for technology. Not to replace but to augment.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:37
Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:40
I'm thinking that a series where you just arrive and drive what you're given from Mclaren HQ/ART Grand Prix isn't going to excite anyone.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:42
It looks worse than horrid, it looks glandularly sick.
Again, *how does so many people get in charge of "car racing" that apparently doesn't get it?*.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:43
Edited by Koen, 13 November 2012 - 16:44.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:44
Is that your best? Who says it is going to be that? Who gives a damn who supplies the technological hardware. Is it McLaren that you have a problem with?I'm thinking that a series where you just arrive and drive what you're given from Mclaren HQ/ART Grand Prix isn't going to excite anyone.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 16:45
One is much more entertaining than the other. Soccer would be really different if the ball was "updated" with the most modern rebounding elastic material, if the pitch was a smooth urethane floor.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 17:01
Is that your best? Who says it is going to be that? Who gives a damn who supplies the technological hardware. Is it McLaren that you have a problem with?
Posted 13 November 2012 - 17:33
If everyone's powertrain has been built and prepared by the same supplier, then the sporting element of the competition tells us nothing about electric cars. It's a gimmick.
Edited by Slowinfastout, 13 November 2012 - 17:42.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 17:34
This was exactly my thought. I had the idea that the point of this series is to create a platform to develop electric car technology. If it's just going to be a spec series there will be no competition and no development.Wait... so Formula E will be a fully spec series, like GP2?
Having many different approaches for designing electric cars was the only attractive thing about this project.
If all cars will be the same, then it's pointless IMO.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 17:37
Posted 13 November 2012 - 17:45
Posted 13 November 2012 - 17:46
I dont want another spec series, but i think theres gonna be a specish car avalible, but u can also bring a proper car
Posted 13 November 2012 - 18:22
Posted 13 November 2012 - 18:47
Wait... so Formula E will be a fully spec series, like GP2?
Having many different approaches for designing electric cars was the only attractive thing about this project.
If all cars will be the same, then it's pointless IMO.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 21:52
Posted 13 November 2012 - 23:06
Edited by johnmhinds, 13 November 2012 - 23:06.