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2015/16 Calendar announced
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/119937
The big news is Paris will be added to the schedule. That promises to be a great event. I'm glad Punta Del Este will remain on the calendar, I thought that was one of the better events this season and it had been in some doubt. |
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Punta Del Este was one of the best races and tracks i thought
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19 Jul 2015, 21:37 (Ref:3559592) | #605 | ||
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I don't think that Mexican race promoters will be happy to see their coverage getting bumped by the 12 Hours of Sebring around the world.
Both are shown on Fox Sports in the Americas and other countries. |
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20 Jul 2015, 12:30 (Ref:3559730) | #606 | |
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Can they move Mexico City race to Sunday?
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20 Jul 2015, 16:25 (Ref:3559803) | #607 | ||
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Maybe they think they can draw more viewers than Sebring? Or maybe it isn't going to be in Mexico at all...
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20 Jul 2015, 16:28 (Ref:3559804) | #608 | |
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They already got bumped by the NAEC/USCC once before.
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20 Jul 2015, 16:44 (Ref:3559810) | #609 | ||
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Strike my first suggestion then. So it's either not Mexico or they just don't care if they do get bumped. Mind you, it would be sensible to avoid the clash. Perhaps this is one of the reason's the event is still TBC.
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20 Jul 2015, 19:26 (Ref:3559843) | #610 | |
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I just found something out. We all know the Monaco layout was unpopular, but the Monaco GP layout wouldn't be the longest circuit on the calendar if thy were to use it. I guess they didn't think they could regenerate enough energy using that layout or something.
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23 Jul 2015, 13:44 (Ref:3560460) | #611 | ||
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Same as Long Beach - they wanted to avoid direct lap time comparisons with other formula
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23 Jul 2015, 15:20 (Ref:3560469) | #612 | ||
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Well, I'm not sure that really matters. They tested at Donington pre-season and let everyone see the cars were slower than F4 for example...
They definitely intended to have quite short laps at all the circuits. I would think the situation at Monaco had more to do with keeping the streets around the casino open than the length of the circuit. |
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23 Jul 2015, 17:05 (Ref:3560486) | #613 | |
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Didn't they add chicanes to Donington though? Makes me think their intention was to mask the speed of the cars
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23 Jul 2015, 19:20 (Ref:3560499) | #614 | ||
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They did for the first test but I think they abandoned them for the others.
I don't disagree that it would be best to avoid unfavorable comparisons, but if you base your enjoyment of FE on whether they compare well to F1 or not, then you probably aren't FE's target audience. Since the cars are quite slow, it makes sense to have short laps, so the spectators see the cars come past more often, and so that it becomes possible to save a lap's worth of battery for strategic purposes. |
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Actually, I'm surprised that the Punta del Este circuit had a very long north section, whereas they could have put the hairpin much closer.
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4 Aug 2015, 05:22 (Ref:3563668) | #616 | |
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Season 2 powertrains are homologated, but BMW says it will not enter until car swaps are eliminated.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/120214 http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/120146 |
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The Swedes are coming,
http://www.electricautosport.com/201...rmula-e-entry/ Williams improved the batteries, http://current-e.com/features/batteries-refreshed/ but the posts keep moving for them. http://current-e.com/features/power-play/ Meanwhile, Trulli-Motomatica sounds optimistic, http://current-e.com/chatter/380kw-a...es-for-trulli/ and Venturi looks to bring on a former World Champ. http://current-e.com/chatter/villene...lace-heidfeld/ Mahindra's car also sounds very weird. Wonder what they've cooked up. Last edited by AoB Special Stage; 6 Aug 2015 at 04:54. |
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6 Aug 2015, 07:51 (Ref:3564095) | #618 | |
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Villeneuve replacing Heidfeld? If I were Venturi I know who I'd rather have. Didn't Nick beat Jacques when they were teammates in F1 in 06?
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6 Aug 2015, 13:49 (Ref:3564166) | #621 | |
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Tell that to the man who says that LMP1 only gets attention once a year.
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Thanks for the news round-up AoB
The article about the batteries is especially interesting. It seems the Williams battery was already running well above its design envelope, and there might not be that much more to give. The article also gives some insight into the strategies the teams were using in season 1, with the two race cars being set up in "endurance" and "sprint" modes - cruising with the endurance car to gain an extra lap, and then going all out with the sprint car. Given the two cars are limited to the same 150kW, this is probably more to do with re-gen than power usage. |
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Confirmed today that we won't be seeing Chandhok or Alguersuari next year.
But apparently Adam Carroll has tested for both Nextev and Mahindra, and has been impressive for both. He is so overdue a break like this. |
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I agree, it would be great to see Adam Carroll in Formula E. Campos Racing are now running both NextEv and Mahindra they are essentially the same team. Didn't Carroll do some GP2 races for Campos?
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http://current-e.com/chatter/vergne-...guersuari-out/
Virgin is after the French Andretti driver, http://current-e.com/chatter/coming-...he-exclusives/ and let's stop pretending, we all know it's Renault. |
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