Watching my first Formula E race!

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This is the one in London which looks like a great big parking garage or something like that, very cool course!

I am happy to report that it is just as fun watching racing with whirring electric motor noises as it is with vroomy combustion engine noises!

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Been enjoying watching Formula E since it’s inception. It wasn’t to popular early on, but that’s not the case anymore. I was lucky enough to catch one of the races in the streets of Hong Kong a few years ago, totally awesome. I never miss a Formula One race, but Moto GP followed by Formula E are my absolute favorites in that order for sure.

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Wiggs.
You missed the earlier series where the iPace was the supporting races, due to Covid they shortened the 3 year contract to 2, this leaves Simon Evans as the reigning champion for that class, his Brother races for the Jaguar team so you had better be rooting for him!!!

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Still making up my mind!

As for watching more, I’ll keep my eye peeled for upcoming races.

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Last race of the season Mitch is starting 3rd on the grid and is in a good position to take the title, Jaguar are sitting at the top of the table in the constructors title.

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Well that was a fizzer, Mitch didn’t move off the line and was shunted. The eventual TITLE winner came in 8th and that secured the manufacturers title as well for Mercedes, Jaguar came in second, if Mitch had been running then Jaguar would probably have won that title.

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I really am enjoying watching Formula E: the strategy involving conserving power, and taking the least power-Intensive line is really fascinating.

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And there’s Jaguar content to boot :rofl:

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Formula Vee with fat tires! :+1:

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I think it would be fascinating to drive an electric race car that had the same torque from tip-in to full throttle. And should you even call it a throttle?

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Hi there,

Not sure whether all can open this link and dhownload (right of the screen):

https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/900047/electric-superbike-racing-the-design-and-construction-of-a-championship-winning-electric-superbike

I guess you see the family name of one of the co-authors (my brother, A. Prof. of Mech Engineering at Nottingham University). He ran the Superbike electric team and published this article on Electric superbike design.

They did the TT as well as the European Championship (to my memory they won in 2015 or 16).

The bikes had to be de-tuned, because they out performed the Internal Combustion counterparts, albeit with very limited range at full blast. I can be mistaken, but I recall the peak power, for 180 sec. max, mas close to 500 bhp…

Call that scary…

Best,

Ll.

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