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Ted just saying that the track commentary was putting the blame on Hamilton, hence the boos.
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Nice use of "It's happened immediately" in the Formula E commentary.
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Regarding Formula E.....
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BBCs article title doesnt make sense to me?
"Hamilton as Rosberg awaits stewards' verdict" Hamilton what? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/formula1/36471429 |
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Well, if that was the last ever Formula E race on ITV, it's bowed out in a fairly shambolic way.
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Well, if that was the last ever Formula E race on ITV, it's bowed out in a fairly shambolic way.
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Oh have BT hoovered up the live rights or something?
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What i'd like to see with Formula E, is have it racing on say the shorter National or International layouts of well known circuits (if the regular Grand Prix Layouts are too slow: Donington, Silverstone, Mangy Cours, Monza, Nurburgring etc. etc. These city tracks are just silly... And my god, if the Team Radio is so irrelevant & intrusive that the commentators just talk over it... why bother airing it?
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One of their USPs is that they have city races to get close to the fans - which I can understand and is in itself not a bad USP. The trick is just to make sure the city track is worthy of a race, which they've found much more difficult to do.
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One of their USPs is that they have city races to get close to the fans - which I can understand and is in itself not a bad USP. The trick is just to make sure the city track is worthy of a race, which they've found much more difficult to do.
I think watching cars stream round a sanitised (after they've put up all the crash barriers etc.) version of a city is silly, apart from a few places like Monaco & maybe Birmingham in the 90s - because the circuits are too often unsuitable for producing good racing. |
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Formula E needs the tight tracks with lots of hard stops so they can re-gen energy from the brakes.
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Yeah I kind of know what you're saying and don't necessarily disagree but if you basically drop it back to BTCC-events with not even BTCC-level crowds (no idea what FE crowd numbers are but other than the Mexico race I doubt they're very large) I think that would finish it off - it'll definitely go the way of A1GP and Superleague Formula.
I think it's got to try and find ways to be as distinct as possible to carve out it's own niche and the city racing thing is helpful in that respect. |
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I don't necessarily mind the street circuits but it would be nice to see them eventually use some proper tracks.
In terms of the future of a race in the UK, If London don't want them then they should look at coming up to Birmingham. Or just run at Donington, They do most (If not all) of there testing there so why not run a race there. Surely better than potentially having no race in the UK at all. |
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Nothing's been confirmed for Season 3 yet, but looking at the poor ratings it generates (only 296k for Race 1 on ITV yesterday), plus the fact there doesn't seem to be a British race next year, I can't imagine ITV will be too desperate to hold on to it, sadly.
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The founder of Formula E is a big environmentalist and so what he wants is to miminise the carbon footprint of the events as much as possible, so he will shun all tracks that are out in the country which people have to drive to or get on buses, instead have the events in cities with an expansive public transport system, trams, trains etc.
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Nothing's been confirmed for Season 3 yet, but looking at the poor ratings it generates (only 296k for Race 1 on ITV yesterday), plus the fact there doesn't seem to be a British race next year, I can't imagine ITV will be too desperate to hold on to it, sadly.
I'm a little surprised it didn't do better with F1 becoming less accessible to casual viewers, but I don't really know what promotion ITV did (these days I generally only end up watching any of the ITV channels when the BTCC or Formula E is on, so I don't see their promos in other programmes.) Maybe it's a bit "marmite" for seasoned motorsports fans, and possibly a bit too tame for casual fans. Today's race certainly won't have helped
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Some people won't watch it purely because its electric!
id watch it but firstly, there is too many stupid gimmicks like fan boost, which is the kind of thing you expect to find on a Super Mario kart game, not a serious professional sporting racing series. They get penalised if they exceed battery percentage! The car is said to have 0% battery but is still going and that somehow is a penalty!!! To be taken seriously, it needs serious improvements and the lack of numbers on TV is a huge indicator that it isn't being taken seriously enough for people to want to watch or make the time to watch like fans of F1 or BTCC or WEC etc |
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The founder of Formula E is a big environmentalist and so what he wants is to miminise the carbon footprint of the events as much as possible, so he will shun all tracks that are out in the country which people have to drive to or get on buses, instead have the events in cities with an expansive public transport system, trams, trains etc.
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Might as well just organise a soap box derby championship.
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Whats with the DHL fastest lap on Sky, is that an official FIA/FOM award?
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Whats with the DHL fastest lap on Sky, is that an official FIA/FOM award?
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The founder of Formula E is a big environmentalist and so what he wants is to miminise the carbon footprint of the events as much as possible, so he will shun all tracks that are out in the country which people have to drive to or get on buses, instead have the events in cities with an expansive public transport system, trams, trains etc.
I have nothing against whether it's electric or not. I'll watch it regardless of what's in the engine. Although having the car running when there's 0% battery is silly IMO. The battery should be like fuel, if your battery level gets to zero, you should just trundle to a halt... |
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Shouldn't the car go into limp to the nearest safe track exit mode when the remaining power is 0% and the car not allowed to record a completed lap except by driving into / through the pits?
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Totally agree that formula e needs to be run on proper tracks and not these city ones.
Apart from the great views of the Paris one, none have shone. The dark battersea tree avenue probably being the worst of them all. That having it in cities to reduce any environmental impact, is just nonsense in my view. Be honest, I could not care about any of the environmental aspects or the batteries either, to me its a fun racing series with a great app, through season features and one of the most enjoyable commentary teams out there. Ditch fanboost though and bring the series to a fortnightly offering, rather than aimlessly spread over the year. Would be more novel if they had a small hybrid battery/fuel switchover which you could use to make the switchover more tactical rather than a halfway car/battery change dash. I'm sure some in the past on here have mentioned they were frightened to run alongside other series and/or use normal race tracks as formula e laps were so much slower. |
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