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It also shows that privateer accessibility is the way to go. No car in that picture is built by a munufacturer’s racing department, and only four or five receive significant manufacturer backing. While DTMs reliance on manufacturers meant they didn’t have paydrivers in over ten years, the last time they would have had

The current Turbos and the V8s before that were spectacular trackside, so electric would definitely impact the experience, but with battery development allowed they would be quite expensive, but also much more interesting than Formula E.

I kind of want to see BTCC rules but with RWD cars with current engine rules. Privateers should be able to build their own chassis, and with a semi-spec engine similar to the Swindon/Toca engine it should be possible to run cars for many teams, although customer engines would be possible, as there are six

The thing with BTCC is that most cars aren’t manufacturer-funded, so the manuxacturers couldn’t just go and send some cars to Germany(only teams with significant manufacturer backing are WSR BMW and Honda).

The last time this happened, in the winter of 96/97 when Opel and Alfa left, DTM was just cancelled, and the STW Cup, which had been second tier, running with STC cars became the new top tier in Germany. However, I don’t see the TCR series step in this time, as BMW doesn’t have a car and the teams probably don’t want

While I omitted the higher maintenance cost for the combustion car, I completely left out electricity cost, and as it will never be free, the break-even won’t move significantly.

The price difference between an electric and gasoline Opel Corsa is about 12ooo€. This will buy you 9270 litres of fuel at 1,30/litre, which should be enough for about 130000km. Even if they paid 0€ for the electricity, which is impossible, most owners of cars like these would take over ten years for the electric car

Burning clean has not much to do with the fuel. Everything that burns very hot creates significant quantities of nitrous oxide, it doesn’t matter whether it’s diesel or gas.

Over here, taxes are more than 50% of the fuel price.

Its not as stupid as you think it is. It is currently the only option for applications where energy density is of high priority. The average SUV buyer wouldn’t care if is car was 500kg heavier. A truck buyer would care about battery weight, as it reduces his payload capacity significantly while he also loses range.

The fuel does exist, but only from research plants which cant porduce in large quantities or at competitive prices.

Its a carbohydrate fuel, but unlike conventional fuel, it’s not made from oil, but other natural resources. The most relevant procedures are farming algae and turn them into oil(basically the same as we use now, just sped up by a billion times) or use a fuel cell to turn CO2 from air and water into fuel.

That is not entirely correct.

There is an obvious danger, but the high integration can have advantages in crisises. It gives you more security and control in your supply chain, especially towards the end of a crisis. As nice as shedding costs quickly is, you don’t want to risk costs starting to shed themselves when suppliers go bust.

I still believe that the established OEMs are actually leading autonomous car develeopment, but nobody is seeing any of it because they only roll out features that are safe and reliable and don’t need to impress anyone to stay in business

Sebring is already off, as teams and drivers can’t get there, FE has also postponed races.

According to the reports the McLaren team member was tested after he experienced symptoms, so it is very likely that he contracted the virus in Woking.

Am I the only one who is surprised that there is an infected team member? A race team with a nine-figure budget should be able to get 50 people isolated and tested before departure. Even if insurance/government don’t cover it, it would be a neglible cost compared to the risk to both employees and their own business.

Not quite sure what exactly Utah laws say, but i’d be surprised if that is possible with a vehicle that is registered for road use

The best thing about this rule was always the fact that about a year before it was introduced a german website ran it as April fools joke.