madmark1974 wrote:From what I've heard they will have to manage the power quite a lot and won't be able to run flat out the whole way, so I just hope that they get their sums right and the cars don't all grind to a halt before half distance and the changeover or subsequently before the end, or the series will lose all credence.
Something tells me that if they've
really done their sums right, the battery would last to at least 55-60% of the race distance anyway - as a precautionary measure against such a farce happening. Sure, it was fine when F1 cars of the mid-80s would conk out with no fuel in the tank, but everyone involved in Formula E, right the way up to the bigwigs at the FIA who know that there will be no such thing as petrol one day, need to ensure that there's no chance that the whole field will grind to a halt.
I wonder also if this series will go a bit easier on those teams trying to exploit loopholes in the regulations; will there be room for masterstrokes of brilliance such as Colin Chapman's ground effect, the banned-before-it-was-raced twin chassis, "water cooled brakes" (we saw what you were doing there, Brabham), double diffusers, F-ducts, or - specific to this series - every wire in the care made from a metal with lower resistivity than what they're using now (which I suspect will be copper)?
T-minus two days, and I'll be watching on Saturday morning. Whether there will be anyone in the Chinese streets or not we will have to see...
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