Sorry total VANITY!
Autonomous too? A tech race. Musk should start something like that.
Bad idea. They tried turbine cars in the Indy 500 but people didn’t like them because the lacked the noise. By the way, the turbine cars were also faster.
They will also need electric garage door openers that don’t have manual open pulls. The biggest transition will be having vroom vroom noise makers sitting behind the cardboard cutout fans in the stands.
Just have overhead power transfers like trains have. No more pit stops.
When hell freezes over (hopefully).
just as long as they don’t have pull ropes in the garage doors
Laws of physics. How far could a car go at a high rate of speed on a single battery pack and how long would it take to change battery packs in the pit? Might work but suspect many EVs would suddenly come to a stop on the course during a race and would cause pile ups. Fun to find out. The challenges of these races have been the spur that has advanced automotive technology.
So only a couple of steps away from giant Slot Cars?
No, no, no!
We do a virtual race on Zoom.
You put the electric car on one of those wheel spinners they use to ballance your tires and check the speedometer.
Then you project videos around the car from the track you are simlating - Daytona, Pocono, etc.
For refueling pit stops, yu have a camera at the local power plant and watch the meters spin up as the car is recharged.
Getting the big-bosomed scantily-clad girl to kiss the winner is still an issue that has to be worked out.
I compare it to turbine cars at Indy.
Formula E drivers make about three times what normal drivers make. It is also lame based on the same qualities the article refers to as virtues. Engine noise, shifting, etc. Soon the only place you can drive gas guzzling fire breathing monsters will be a racetrack.
No noise?
I guess you haven’t seen any of the Formula E races - the noise is insane, and the speed is certainly there as well.
They can put baseball cards in the rims.....................
I remember working in a warehouse back in the late 70’s where we used to hold impromptu electric forklift races. The idea was to race the forklift down an obstacle course while carrying a loaded pallet. The last task was to lift the pallet and place it on a top tier of the racking system. Best time won.
It was awesome until one guy crashed into a row of shelving.
With Greta Thunberg behind the wheel!
I’d watch hoping for a giant smash-up.
I expect that it will be a lot like the idea of electric airplanes. Just enough energy to get you airborne and probably kill you. Race cars would be “refueling” every handful of laps at those speeds.
Nothing in my world can replace the sight, sound, feel, or exhilaration of a race car. NOTHING.