[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)