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Formula E heads to Mexico for the fourth round of the season with Bird and Virgin leading the championships, a new driver in the field. We preview what to look out for in Mexico.
On a typical FE track you can get quite close to the action, and the "action density" (number of significant things happening per 100 m of track) is quite high. I recommend trying it.Phil wrote: ↑06 May 2018, 10:19Just found out that Formula-e is coming to ‘my city’ (Zurich/Switzerland) on June 10th! Really excited and didnt know where else to post this.
Has anyone else visited a F-e race yet? Naturally, all the grandstand tickets are sold out, but apparently along the track you can watch for free (though i assume you probably wont see much?).
There are noises about next season which are starting to worry me as a fan. I quite enjoy the car swap, because it plays into the strategy, the drivers have to do a lot of energy saving and regen but then, if they've done a good enough job, ahead of the pit stop they can attack. Because the next car will be more powerful, has double the battery storage and cars can comfortably do the race on 1 set of tyres, I see this strategic element going missing, so we end up with F1 style processions. For me at least FE is producing some of the most exciting racing in international motorsport - at least when the drivers aren't driving each other into the walls...Andres125sx wrote: ↑10 May 2018, 08:59I can´t disagree more, car swaps are main reason I don´t follow FE right now, it makes huge differences wich can´t be compensated on the track and to me it does kill the racing
And tires are great like they are, no marbles, dirty zones are almost clean so different lines and overtaking are possible, no strategic differences wich makes all cars equally competitive and it´s all a matter of driver and setup
Actually those are possibly the best and worst part of FE right now to me
Not watching it explains partly why talk BS. Car swaps have no negative effect on racing.Andres125sx wrote: ↑10 May 2018, 08:59I can´t disagree more, car swaps are main reason I don´t follow FE right now, it makes huge differences wich can´t be compensated on the track and to me it does kill the racing
And tires are great like they are, no marbles, dirty zones are almost clean so different lines and overtaking are possible, no strategic differences wich makes all cars equally competitive and it´s all a matter of driver and setup
Actually those are possibly the best and worst part of FE right now to me
I can´t see what´s the problem with a race without a car swap. As you said yourself, double energy to double race distance, but higher power, wich means they´ll need more energy saving and regen.jjn9128 wrote: ↑10 May 2018, 13:01There are noises about next season which are starting to worry me as a fan. I quite enjoy the car swap, because it plays into the strategy, the drivers have to do a lot of energy saving and regen but then, if they've done a good enough job, ahead of the pit stop they can attack. Because the next car will be more powerful, has double the battery storage and cars can comfortably do the race on 1 set of tyres, I see this strategic element going missing, so we end up with F1 style processions. For me at least FE is producing some of the most exciting racing in international motorsport - at least when the drivers aren't driving each other into the walls...Andres125sx wrote: ↑10 May 2018, 08:59I can´t disagree more, car swaps are main reason I don´t follow FE right now, it makes huge differences wich can´t be compensated on the track and to me it does kill the racing
And tires are great like they are, no marbles, dirty zones are almost clean so different lines and overtaking are possible, no strategic differences wich makes all cars equally competitive and it´s all a matter of driver and setup
Actually those are possibly the best and worst part of FE right now to me
Agag has mentioned the possibility of 'mario kart' style laps coming, so almost like a joker lap but afterwards they get more power. This worries me. What I like at the moment is that it just has enough normalcy to tolerate the gimmicks like fan boost. Next season I may lose interest.
I'm also worried about the new car, being faster and higher downforce, overtaking opportunities are undoubtedly going to fall, which is why they're mentioning mario kart I suppose.
I have to admit that I haven't followed it closely but my guess would be that it is because of the light weight of the cars and the superior materials used for discs and pads. To keep weight as low as possible they would I think pare it down as much as they can and also to keep the unsprung weight down.I'm surprised how small the front brake discs are as compared to F1. They're smaller than ones I've seen on most passenger sports cars.
Seems likely that - no repeated hard braking from ~350 km/h, for a much longer race - would have a fair bit to do with it..strad wrote: ↑10 May 2018, 22:24I have to admit that I haven't followed it closely but my guess would be that it is because of the light weight of the cars and the superior materials used for discs and pads. To keep weight as low as possible they would I think pare it down as much as they can and also to keep the unsprung weight down.I'm surprised how small the front brake discs are as compared to F1. They're smaller than ones I've seen on most passenger sports cars.
The brakes aren't smaller, you're noticing the difference of inner wheel area of a 18" wheel compared to other Formula cars that use a 13' wheel. If you recall back in 2011 when Pirelli tested 18" wheels on an F1 car, the brakes were comically undersized compared to the inner wheel area.