Right, the basics of the idea of this new one:
SuperCharge. Sort of 'Urban Rallycross' with electric cross-overs with 500kW, joker laps, jumps, low friction zones (...gravel?) in global cities with 'amphitheatre' tracks.
Spec chassis, silhouette bodywork but manufacturer involvement is targeted and (interestingly) there's planned freedom to engineer a battery.
Formed by ex-F1/WRX/Speedway personnel. Hopes to apply for FIA International Status. Planned launch 2022.
More details here: https://racer.com/20...ries-announced/
So, with reference to the poll question...
Thing is, the World Rallycross Championship is still in the process of its electric transition. There's also PureETCR which will be a touring car technical ruleset at heart and will visit regular tarmac road and street courses...but plans to make use of the rallycross format for short, high power sprint races. Extreme E is different in many ways but their race format will still be fairly short, high power races of the round robin variety. There's something of a trend here, with all of these high profile electric upstarts going for roughly 500kW sprint races.
I'm genuinely interested in people's thoughts on this. Are all these series on the money or totally missing the point? Is this format a good fit for the technology/a modern audience? Not every announced series will make it to active competition, let alone survive - so how does one win in the electric racing gold-rush?