Viewership is going to continue to drop and those that in the past had faithfully attended every race in their area are going to slowly stop attending any racws.
The Isle of Mann TT race has an EV race; but it continues to have many more IC motorcycle races. The bikes are fast, but not as fast as the IC bikes. And the race is only one lap since 32 miles is reaching the EV bikes’ range limits. There is sound, but much less and not at all the same.
If NASCAR wants to try short EV races, and then the big boy races, it might work.
This should make for leisurely pit stops since it will take 30 minutes to recharge.
They could save a lot of time by switching.
Instead of the Coca-Cola 600 they could have the Coca-Cola 6.
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Not surprising since NOOSECAR went woke & racist w/Bubba
NASCAR Debuts Electric Car
Slot car fad returns wonder if they have a lottery who gets to use the controllers.
Electric traction motors have their function in vehicles of all types. It is HOW the electricity is provided that is the hang-up, Battery power alone is a technological dead-end, and even an ICE-driven power generator, which perhaps is more efficient than the mechanical transfer of the engine rotation through a series of gears and shafts, has only limited amount of power it can transmit at any one moment.
What could be engineered, is a very small modular nuclear reactor, whose purpose is to generate heat. The heat would be used to drive a small steam turbine, on a closed circuit, which spins a generator at varying speeds to increase or decrease the power driving the traction motors.
Or go right straight to hydrogen fuel cells. But the technology on all of that is still far off from practical application.
Face it.... NASCAR is toast. Just waiting for inevitable pileup in turn 3 where several EV’s burst into flames and consume the racetrack along with multiple spectators. Sheesh.
I’d say this is a put up or shut up deal. Go ahead, put an EV out there. If it can compete against ICE then fine. Don’t change standards or rules, have it compete and see what happens (hopefully not a massive uncontrollable fireball).
I don’t care to own an EV, it doesn’t make sense for my use case. But, a lot of R&D can happen on a competitive race track, and could help evolve the product. Or not.
We are one NASCAR wreck away from the EV industry’s Hindenburg moment...
I used to go to many of the nascar races and A.J. and I shared the same marina for a time. So, I went to the races some and am qualified, a little, to comment on them.
Regarding nascar, over hours and hours, I dozed off....even with 30 racecars making an incredible racket. Watching EV’s silently fly around the track, I’m sure I would lapse into a coma.
I attempted to watch an EV Formula something race recently and it was unwatchable.
I did not leave it on long enough to figure out if the high pitched shrieking were the engines, tires or both but it was annoying.
It’s interesting watching long-established sports exterminating themselves by disrespecting their fans in order to pander to people who don’t care about these sports and will never watch them. Organizational suicide.
What could go wrong? With a crash and the resulting inextinguishable thermite-like fire consuming the track surface . . . these races would end spectacularly.
EVs in NASCAR are inevitable. They are faster and more reliable. It’s just a matter of time until the batteries can last, and that is coming sooner rather than later.
Sorry, just the facts. It’s got nothing to do with politics or wokeness. EVs are faster, and accelerate quicker.
No thanks.
LOOK UP the INDY CAR RACE from OHIO last weekend-—
“HYBRID” cars-—OLD & electric.
DIXON was out with complete failure of the electrical system before the green flag.
When the cars come into the pits-—they have to e shut off & RESTARTED with old style starter shafts because battery cannot restart them.....
I cannot imagine the BILLIONS of $$$$$$$ they have spent to get this far.
AND-—the communications between cars & pits were FULL of static.
Not concern about the weight. Physics is hard, I get it.
I quit watching the day Dale crashed and died at Daytona.
Restrictor plates is when I started to not pay attention. I loved the super speedways. Dale Earnhardt finally won Daytona then, died there a few years later. Then they got woke and here comes a black driver named Bubba. Then the FBI is snooping around the pits and garage and found the very 1st noose in the history of the sport! Football and BBall are taking knees. The football boycott came around and made it real easy to want to ignore the races. Bunch of fags ruined a good thing.