Formula E is new to me. Looks like it’d be fun to watch, I’ll have to check out streaming options.
Formula E’s 12th season, the last season of the Gen 3 cars, starts on December 6 in São Paulo.
I imagine it being soon that we see the Formula E outperform the Formula 1.
So I started looking into this and while FE is catching up, the smaller design that’s made for tight turns and rapid acceleration means it can’t beat F1 is a straight race, but it will Beat F1 on a race that includes turns. In a city for example, F1 can’t compete.
Was pretty interesting seeing the Gen3 car they had in the fan area at some of the Formula E races last year with no rear brakes. They still had front brakes (article states otherwise, not sure if they meant rear or if there was some later change I am not aware of).
At any rate, definitely exciting to see the performance levels starting to eclipse the combustion counterparts while being lower cost.
I can’t wait until Formula E replaces Formula 1. We’re years away, but it’s exciting to dream about.
Since they announced FE I’ve been counting the years. It’ll be inevitable.
However I’m still not sure how it’ll happen. Sure eventually FE will over take F1 in viewers, money, and prestige. But will F2 and F3 switch to electric? Will there be different lower tier F2e and F3e. Will F1 last another 50 years or more? Or will F1 go electric and FE discontinue as a brand?
Let’s be honest, F1 is antiquated now. It’s living off of nostalgia. It doesn’t even really innovate any more. Certainly not things that couldn’t be applied in FE. I get that fans want to hear engines roar, but I think they’ll quickly get used to hearing engines whirl. Big Oil can’t stave off the electric revolution for too much longer.
But now you’ve made me think of it, perhaps F2 will be hybrids and and F3 full ICE
Not to mention: a multiclass exhibition event (or series?) with FE + F1 might be pretty cool to see - especially as a way to make it clear to fans that ICE is actually the slower class nowadays.
Also, my inner child would LOVE it if they rebranded FE to FZero 🤩
Computer programmers would also rejoice at zero-indexing.
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