Posted on 07/10/2024 12:23:13 PM PDT by CFW
NASCAR debuted what it claims is the future of racing, its electric ABB NASCAR EV Prototype, at the Chicago Street Race event on Saturday, but fans were not impressed.
The vehicle was developed in partnership with Chevrolet, Ford, Toyota, and electric vehicle (EV) developer ABB, all in an effort to reach NASCAR’s “sustainability” goals. One of those goals is to reach “net-zero” operating emissions in the next ten years, the racing organization said in its press release:
While NASCAR is committed to the historic role of the combustion engine in racing, it is also committed to decarbonizing its operations and reducing its own carbon footprint to zero across its core operations by 2035 through electrification and innovative solutions.
Many fans, though, were not all that interested in NASCAR going electric and did not support the organization’s X post announcing the prototype racer.
“The day this hits the track I’m done,” one X user said in disgust.
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“Restrictor plates is when I started to not pay attention.”
That’s when my interest first started waning and I no longer really cared if I missed watching a race or not. Then, not long afterwards, every race ended with a “shoot-out” and the winner of each race was not who had the better car or drove the best, but instead who survived the wreck that always happened just a few laps prior to the end. All the cars were identical with the only difference being whether sponsored by Ford or GMC/Chevy.
Next, the fights on the track and rivalries started to resemble WWE. I just stopped even tuning in. I haven’t watched a race in about five or so years.
I bet within a couple of years, they will start having a “trans-only” race each year in support of those mentally ill cretins who have never watched a race in their lives. The Bud-Light destroying trans guy/gal will probably even have a race sponsor.
The drivers who got out at the top of their game and when the interest in racing was at its peak were smart to do so.
>Coca Cola 600. Sorry can’t run it. Our limit on the batteries does not allow it.
So this IMO is a key to a rational approach and therefore won’t be done.
The race is 600 miles. If, or when, someone can design a car that does 600 miles at race pace and beats the ICE car, all teams will want to use it.
Lots of auto tech emerged from racing; that’d be OK.
That said NASCAR now runs in ‘stages’ (which I think are stupid but I don’t watch oval anyway) so that 600 mile range is really 150 provided the car’s ready to go for the next stage, right?
What’s not acceptable, is not interesting, and won’t be accepted as a mandate for daily use much less entertainment racing, is changing the job to be done to fit a fake agenda.
One would think this is a known factor; in Formula circles, Formula E cars do about 50 miles in a race vs. 189 in Formula 1 (and about the same as Formula 3). Formula E has yet to turn a profit despite increasing revenue, and takes in a tenth or less of F1’s income.
Given the left’s mindset and their control of C-suite offices and government positions, though, they will do what they’ve done everywhere from movies to agriculture: destroy everything including their own livelihood rather than deviate from The Agenda. Net Zero 2030 works just fine for them if nobody races, can work, or eat. Objective achieved, comrade!
They could fly kites and try to catch some lightning. Doesn't get any more ecological than that. Might extend race durations though. More of a cricket match timeline.
No sweat. Qualifying on Thursday, Stage 1 on Friday, Stage 2 on Saturday, Stage 3 on Sunday, any necessary Overtimes on Monday!
I’m not really a big racing fan, but it seems to me if the cars are just as fast, and the races are just as close and exciting, people will want to see it. It’s not so much about the car, it’s more about the racing.
I was in negotiations with a track for a corporate sponsorship with my employer when the president of NASCAR stopped a race to lecture the viewers on racial issues.
Negotiations stopped and so did I. I haven’t watched a race since.
Toy cars that sound like V8’s, ground up grass and chemicals designed to look and taste like real meat.
Leftists are morons.
No; much heavier. On the plus side, any fires from an accident could go on for hours and hours.
Only this time they’ll be on the run from the Wokies.
One problem that I see is that an EV series would take away the excitement of a Nascar pit stop. Changing a battery in the pits would be far too dangerous,, and charging it would take too long. In Formula E, when the battery gets too low, the driver goes to the garage to swap into an identical second car. How boring is that?
It should be one car, go as fast and as far as you can.
Nah, hot swappable batteries would be safe. Just do it during a tire change (just like they do gas)
Hot swappable batteries would do the trick.
I can see EV’s doing well in drag racing, at a 1/4 mile distance. But refueling and frequency of tire changes? The car race would be competing with the National Paint Drying Finals.
Imagine the fires when the electric cars crash.
They cannot be put out.
Who ever is running NASCAR needs to be fired.
No one wants to hear electric motors go hmmmmmmm
This would be slot car racing.
FTA: it is also committed to decarbonizing its operations and reducing its own carbon footprint to zero across its core operations by 2035 through electrification and innovative solutions.
I was over at my friends shop today, Nelson Racing Engines, and I don’t think there is any EV race car that can out perform his engines.
Wishful thinking on your part. It doesn’t matter that ev’s are faster, they won’t pit electric vehicles against internal combustion vehicles head to head, two different technologies, there will need to be a whole different class for electric. They will never win over the fan base with their social engineering B.S. and if they try to force it on the fans, being the type of take no crap people that NASCAR fans are, they will just walk.
>Hot swappable batteries would do the trick.
The early season of Formula E had drivers swapping cars mid-race — jumping out, strapping in, jumping in the 2nd car, but “for safety” so nobody drove off without all their protective stuff properly fastened a minimum stop time was enforced, so “racing” was pulling in, swapping cars, and then the drama of watching drivers wait until a timer expired. Zzzzzz.
Compare to pre-1970s Le Mans start where people actually ran to their cars to start and drive them.
They need to get to hot swappable batteries. Or hydrogen...they have packs they can load in the back already.
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