[HN Gopher] New third-generation Formula E car is fastest ever e... ___________________________________________________________________ New third-generation Formula E car is fastest ever electric racer Author : clouddrover Score : 11 points Date : 2022-07-31 05:14 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.autocar.co.uk) (TXT) w3m dump (www.autocar.co.uk) | bragr wrote: | Don't get me wrong, I like Formula E but "fastest ever electric | racer" isn't saying much at this point. These things are still | pretty slow compared to F1 which is why I think they rarely show | exhibitions of them up against each other. | themitigating wrote: | https://m.facebook.com/TheStig/videos/drag-race-formula-e-vs... | | And F1 compared to McMurtry Speirling EV at GoodWood | | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Q7a0hfp-A | epolanski wrote: | ICEs are lighter than electric ones, formula 1 will always be | faster than anything. | | I really have a hard time liking formula e, the lack of engine | sound takes away lots of excitement. | elcomet wrote: | On the contrary, I think it's really amazing to have silent | racing cars! | namecheapTA wrote: | Racecars are only really slowed down by two things.. budget and | rules. Every year the cars get faster as teams budgets optimize | the rule sets more and more. Often rules are created to slow the | cars down, and to limit spending. If you let people spend | unlimited money and have totally open rules, very quickly you'd | have cars so fast they are completely unsafe on the tracks they | are designated to race on. | | MotogGP for example has tightened rules basically every few years | to lower the gap between the top tier teams and the low budget | teams, and to slow the bikes down. Even with that, the bikes top | speeds are still rising and talk of unsafe speeds at certain | corners grows every year. | | If you just allowed 20% larger engine sizes and custom traction | control, and variable aero, bike speeds would rise so high people | would die every few races instead of every few years. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-01 23:00 UTC)