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They're spec cars and are designed to look "cool". They even said the new front wing this year with the weird curves were purely for aesthetic reasons. Let the manufacturers design weird looking cars like that Newey Red Bull thing and I'll be happy, but these are just bog-standard electric open-wheelers playing dress-up.
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Schedule for this weekend, times are GMT-3
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I love that they broadcast all the sessions on youtube (provided you can VPN out into a country that it's not geoblocked in, using India right now). Watching these guys figure out the track, and finding the limits, with decent commentary, gives you a great picture of how the whole race develops.
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t-t-t-triple post JML's quali lap was bullshit. He screwed up everyone else's session to bring a broken car into 19th position on the grid. If I was race control I'd delete that lap.
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Feb 18, 2017 18:13
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I liked that one race engineer who called Ma Qing Hua a clown.
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Alguersuari on Channel 5. I saw he deleted his main Twitter account, thought that meant he was going It's Just Squire full time, but I guess he still has a little E in him
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Hah, I woke up late. Sounds like I missed an interesting qualifying. Grabbing breakfast and running back home to hopefully catch the first turn in time For some reason it's missing from Fox Sports Go today, but I found a stream link on Reddit. Think it's just a glitch on Fox Sports's end abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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HJB posted:Alguersuari on Channel 5. I saw he deleted his main Twitter account, thought that meant he was going It's Just Squire full time, but I guess he still has a little E in him More likely to be poppers than E
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Spicy. I'm glad the good commentator is back.
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we almost saw a robot kill a dog today https://twitter.com/roborace/status/833030665608249349
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That Swiss national anthem remix though
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More like Sebastien Bore-me.
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Any series dominated by Sebastien Buemi is a joke, I'm afraid
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Here's a thing, Dallara have seemingly made a Formula E2 car independent of the main series. 160bhp as a low power output up to 270bhp that Formula E uses so it seems closer to Formula 3 than 2 but building a ladder early is probably the best way to go given how different FE cars are to drive with the insane torque that comes from a single or 2-speed electric motor. Will apparently have swappable batteries too so no car swapping. Formulino E is a dumb name though, even if it is a Dallara line. 
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njsykora posted:Will apparently have swappable batteries too so no car swapping. If a pitcrew can just hot-swap the battery pack in a few seconds during a pitstop like a tyre change then holy poo poo. That car is disappointingly conventional though, I did like the way the Formula E cars deliberately went away from a generic open-wheel look. Roller Coast Guard fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Mar 15, 2017 |
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Roller Coast Guard posted:If a pitcrew can just hot-swap the battery pack in a few seconds during a pitstop like a tyre change then holy poo poo. Back in the 90s, they had Formula Lightning in the U.S. that had battery-swap pit stops. The teams were university students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6qjJWFRrlI&t=280s
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Roller Coast Guard posted:If a pitcrew can just hot-swap the battery pack in a few seconds during a pitstop like a tyre change then holy poo poo. There's also talk of a quick charge function, which would effectively make it the same as refuelling. I like the look, it looks like a Formula 4 car (which I already like) but has the same flowing curviness that you see in a lot of current electric car design.
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The next race is Saturday April 1 in Mexico City! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to4jItsw7L0 The cool site that used to list Formula E times is gone apparently, so here's the timetable in Eastern Daylight Time (add +4 hours for GMT, -2 hours for local): 10am - Free Practice 1 12:30pm - Free Practice 2 2pm - Qualifying 6pm - Race Check your local TV schedule here for additional help with local times. Also, for us Americans, the qualifying broadcast will be delaying until 4:30 on Fox Sports 2, so you might wanna stay outta the thread to avoid spoilers (or, more likely, just find a bootleg stream). If you missed Buenos Aires, here's the 50 minute version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDrQGI_j25k abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Not much between race news other than Techeetah have replaced Ma with 2-time F1 reject Esteban Gutierrez. Hopefully we have another race like last year's hilarious shitshow where Buemi was having a complete meltdown over not being able to pass Jerome D'Ambrosio, cut a chicane to pass him and when told to give the position back had his teammate block every time he was told to let Jerome through. Then Jerome won anyway because Di Grassi failed tech and got DQ'd. E: Here's a fun added complication for the weekend, Buemi is making a 16 hour trip from Italy to Mexico after being at the Toyota WEC launch on Friday. He's not going to be in Mexico until 4 hours before FP1 starts. njsykora fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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I wish this was true: http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/2017/april/formula-e-to-trial-new-emoji-steering-wheel/ quote:The new dash has been fitted to one development version of the standard Formula E steering wheel, with the process of determining which driver gets to try the new wheel decided by the reverse order of the latest FanBoost standings.
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Hey today's race might not be a Buemi runaway after all.
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The only channel this is on here is the french sports channel which is bullshit.
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Watching mexico because god this track looks awful.
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I've never watched a Formula E race OR seen Fox Sports' generic video intro, so I can now say I've done those two things.
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Just seen the quali highlights and fun to see ABT are still trying to cheat like hell at Mexico.
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Buemi hosed up his pit stop!!
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AAAAHAHAHAHA SUCK IT BUEMI Spins under FanBoost
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Di Grassi and D'Ambrosio are loving everyone in that stadium section.
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Bentai posted:Those last 5-10 laps were great. holy poo poo yeah it was. imma have to watch that again
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njsykora posted:UK TV literally cut to an ad break 5 seconds after Di Grassi crossed the line. I don't think it was that long. Everything channel 5 has ever touched is utterly dreadful.
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Channel 5 looks like they're literally broadcasting from a basement closet. Just two people squashed together on stools with a single camera, tv and a blue curtain.
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