Originally Posted by lettice:
“So no London race then and I see Jaguar have a team.
They still have fan boost, why oh why!
They made a point about the street tracks being good for fans, but I feel they do not work well often for tv.
Still the same old half race battery. Would be better if they had a hybrid without the battery change and making the cars a bit faster.
Still, its fun close racing and something a bit different than the norm and plenty of innovation, like some of it or not.
Also, that is the way to do a drivers press conference”
The real weak point for me in an otherwise entertaining and light-relief-to-F1 series is the calendar.
6 months to do 4 rounds, including a gap of more than 3 months between R2 and R3, and then the last 8 races all crammed in within 10 weeks. How does that generate any momentum? It's their third season and the calendar is still as crazily lop-sided as ever, indeed even worse than season 2 I think as from memory there was a race in Uruguay in December to fill the winter months gap.
If the aim is to race in some different timesand take advantage of the lack of competition from other single seater serie then it's not really working - might as well start the season in February and run it regularly and reliably till August or suchlike.
I'll gloss over the additions of managing to clash the series opener with F1 (unless they're hoping to lure in some F1 fans flicking over from the Japanese GP), and potentially losing most of their biggest names to the WEC round on the same weekend as their NYC round.