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Originally Posted by Oldtony
When the ICE vehicle replaced the horse as the main means of transport the gee gee's were saved by becoming almost solely a sporting vehicle.
When sail power on water was replaced by steam & diesel the sport of sailing retained and developed the skills.
Perhaps we have to develop ways of popularising ICE based motor sport as a spectator/betting/recreational activity or sport/hobby to give it a future?
Meanwhile racing EVs will develop due to the inherent desire of anyone who has any sort of vehicle wanting to prove that their vehicle is faster than the next bloke.
Just stand and watch people departing your nearest set of traffic lights!
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Some common sense in this comment, horse racing as a sport still occurs all over world. Sailing competitions are still run in every city weekly with major events like America's cup, round the world race and sydney to hobart etc.
EV cars are moving away from being worked on by a mechanic to computer technician. To me EV cars are a whole evolution away from what we have known, like horse carts to ice powered vehicles.
Might as well make the full jump as have EV powered autonomous AI driven machines. Thats the future we are looking at in next 10 years.