Formula E

Video: Doughnuts in a Formula E car are… different

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  • #133897

    Quieter and less doughnuty:

    #245099
    andae23
    Participant

    It’s just a remote control car! Ah, races should be fun then :)

    #245100
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Sounds like Scalextric. I look forward to the Scalextric model, at least the sound will be accurate!

    #245101
    Fer no.65
    Participant

    My old Tamiya Black Foot made that sound !

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18kUBjXr3Wg

    #245102
    mnmracer
    Participant

    This is just embarrassing. It doesn’t even leave a half-decent rubber trail.

    #245103
    andae23
    Participant

    Some more donuts, this time in Las Vegas:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2uA7IQDD0&feature=share
    It has to be noted that it’s likely that the car only used 25% engine power (±60-70 bhp).

    #245104
    zomtec
    Participant

    That’s simply not impressing. Loud high rev engine noise combined with white clouds spring to my mind when thinking of donuts. But that car was struggeling to do proper donuts. Also the topspeed is reported to be only 225 km/h. I am not sure whether we will see spectacular races in Formula E.

    #245105
    matt90
    Participant

    Zomtec, the drivers have to run 100m when they change cars. If that isn’t spectacular racing, I don’t know what is. Did you honestly never watch Vettel and Alonso during 2012 and think “this is great, but the one thing this is missing is a foot-race”?

    #245106
    Nick
    Participant

    @matt90 If only I could have tweeted Alonso to the 2012 championship.. ;)

    #245107
    electrolite
    Participant

    Not getting all the hate on Formula E. It’s clearly doing it’s own thing and it makes no secrets about what the series is all about…. if this was a Formula 1 car, then I would understand all the fuss about ‘where is all the engine grunt?’ and ‘where is the all burning rubber!?’. I’m not saying the comments above are amongst the worst reactions I’ve read (far from it, infact!), but I for one find the idea of a grid full of electric that sound like that, yet look like that, rather fresh and exciting. The whole thing could be a flop once it gets going, like any series, but I’m surprised there hasn’t been a series like this up and running already. Just my two pence…

    #245108
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    The thing with Formula E is, it’s trying to present itself as a legitimate (although to me a spec racing series is never *as* legitimate as a non-spec series, but let’s not get into that now) motor racing series, yet with these gimmicks (far worse than double points for one race IMO), the drivers sprinting, the Twittersphere voting on an extra push to pass, the car changes, it removes that legitimacy and demeans the series. It should be allowed to stand on it’s own two feet by itself, not via the use of silly gimmicks like that.

    #245109
    Fer no.65
    Participant

    It’s not a driver’s championship anyway. All eyes should be focused on the cars.

    It’s far from ideal, but for a very first season, from the total unknown, maybe all those gimmicks are not bad. I mean, street racing: not ideal in terms of motorsport, but in terms of promotion way better than racetracks. Twitterboost: it’s the opposite of ideal, but it’s all about promotion… they need that for a first year, even if we don’t like it.

    #245110
    AMR
    Participant

    Showcasing a ‘greener future’ racing series with burnouts is a daft marketing approach anyhow. They should be doing straight-line speed demos or circuit/inner city runs, and showing what the car can do best. I could imagine these things getting up to speed very quickly and that would make for an impressive show. RC-style burnouts are doing more damage than good honestly.

    #245111
    matt90
    Participant

    I have no problem that they can’t do burnouts which are at all impressive. I just don’t understand why they even bother. The comment above me is spot on- what use is this as a demonstration? The thing looks and sounds awkward, and does nothing to highlight the credentials of the cars.

    #245112
    Joey-Poey
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    I was so excited when they first announced this series. With each new announcement and demonstration I’m becoming more and more disillusioned. What I wanted was a straight up old school F1 technology war where you run what you brung. What I’d have settled for was a spec series that simply pits drivers against each other in electric cars. But it doesn’t even seem like we’re getting something as straight forward as that with the tweet boost and swapping cars. Gimmicks, gimmicks, gimmicks out the wazoo. The FIA would have had me with the simplest of premises, but they can’t seem to manage that sort of racing anymore :/

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