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World RX headline class to be electric from 2020

Started by Vielleicht , Feb 07 2018 12:23

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#101 Vielleicht

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Posted 20 December 2019 - 16:14

We have another Projekt E entrant for 2020 in Polish rally car builder Rallytechnology. They plan to fit a STARD electrification kit into an R5 rolling chassis.

Rallytechnology Confirms Two-Car Projekt E Entry
https://e-racing365....rojekt-e-entry/

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#102 WonderboyF1

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Posted 21 December 2019 - 21:58

I’m attending my first RX race in Barcelona next year, specifically made a point of going as in a year or two time the noise will be gone! :-(

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#103 Ben1445

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Posted 21 December 2019 - 22:20

On the flip-side, I reckon I’ll be going to my first RX event in the next year or two precisely to see the new age of electric

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#104 Vielleicht

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Posted 22 December 2019 - 13:20

I think what we tend to forget about the noise in motorsport is that, as much as it genuinely and legitimately draws people to the sport...it also puts people off.

I’ve taken a good number of my family and friends to a track and some have not enjoyed it because it was ‘too loud’.

I think people tend to assume that reducing the noise only erodes the fan-base rather than opening it up to new ones as well.

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#105 ElectricBoogie

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Posted 22 December 2019 - 16:29

Impressive specs from Williams. Just stick that thing in a swappable pack mated to a bigger motor into FE and add stops. Double the power, yes please!

I was actually expecting much smaller battery capacity for such a car and much lower energy density at the cell level. I can only say, impressive.

Of course the likes of Lotus are taking it to an even higher level with upcoming cars. It's unacceptable for electric racing series to be sub par. Glad that rally cross will lead the way.
Please let someone put a formula car together with that batter and such motors. Really compact motors are on the market. Heck, imagine four F1 MGU-K's, on on each wheel. Those things are tiny.

Can't wait for the racing! We need to pester racing series and FIA to step it up. Electric road cars are so good already, race cars so meh, apart from these WRX then.

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#106 Vielleicht

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Posted 16 January 2020 - 08:57

First Projekt E Chassis Delivered After ASI Display
https://e-racing365....er-asi-display/

"STARD has delivered the first customer Projekt E chassis just days after displaying the car at Autosport International show in Birmingham.
Holten Motorsport took delivery of its REVelution powertrain, complete with stock Ford Fiesta bodywork like the demonstration car, on Monday."

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#107 7MGTEsup

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Posted 16 January 2020 - 15:22

It makes sense. EV's are very well suited for rallicross. The short race format and the high torque characteristics of an electric powertrain mean that the EV's would beat the supercars' laptimes very easily unless you were to artificially restrain them.

To have the EV's treated as a sideshow to a slower main event would be confusing to the public and the legitimacy of the championships. To slow the EV's to save face would go down like a lead balloon with the manufacturers who've only recently got on board with WRX.

Don't rally cross cars run a restrictor to keep the power down (artificially restrained)?