I really hope that McLaren, finally rid of the expense and baggage of a prima donna former world champion and now experiencing success on the track and popularity off of it (Lando winning fan-voted Rookie of the Year in a landslide), aren't thinking of going backwards.
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Developing a car is insanely expensive. McLaren has ruled it out for 2021 because they can’t afford to do F1, Indy *and* WEC. You’re just not going to get carmakers to sink enormous amounts of cash only to get beaten by a privateer team driving a spec chassis. And "class wins" don't mean shit to anyone except the…
That’s kind of my point. If yours is that a Carolinian MPGe reading will be less relevant to a driver in Vermont compared to what’s rated in Europe, sure, probably, but the US is a single market, and you have to report for the worst case, or at least the median one.
Worth noting that Opel and Jeep are about to be sister brands.
Why? When climate and road conditions differ from continent to continent, I’d expect cars to perform differently in the US then they do in Europe. The estimates that get published in each market should be the ones that are most reflective of the actual consumer experience in that market.
True. We'll have to see how Extreme E shapes up. Right now it's sounding more like a mix of Dakar and Formula Offroad, and them working off an SUV platform obviously gives them room for larger battery capacity. The point is, I think we are actively crossing the tipping point between electric motorsport being a gimmick…
I wonder if we even need a split between the two.
FYI—Formula E has run the full race distance without swapping cars for the last two years.
Chicken and egg. The TECH THAT GETS DEVELOPED through rallying to allow electric rally cars to survive a stage should and will get translated into advancements in road cars so that when your Fiat 500e goes over a pothole you don’t end up trashing the powertrain.
Anyone have a simple explanation for why the GT-Hypercar class can’t be faster? Throwing on a few more ponies shouldn’t be a problem when manufacturers are regularly turning out 1200HP machines. My wild guess here—without reading anything else—is that there are concerns that the hypercars wouldn’t be safe at higher…
Stuart’s point that really sold me is that track layouts change from year to year, so Turn 9 from this year being last year’s Turn 8 makes things confusing.
I frankly don’t understand why Pirelli puts up with being a punching bag unless they’ve getting paid a ton of cash.
Only in favor if teams aren’t locked into one manufacturer. Basically would want teams to be able to bring 6 Pirelli C3s, 4 Pirelli C4s but then 2 Michelin C3s in case the Pirellis end up being garbage on race day. The idea would be to avoid a repeat of 2005. But at that point you’re going to have so many tire…
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