This is not the reason. Teams were deathly afraid that Audi would get an advantage because they have good experience with front wheel regeneration from WEC.
Teams were deathly afraid that Audi would get an advantage because they have good experience with front wheel regeneration from WEC.
That's the excuse and a mightily stupid excuse as well. As if a simple harvesting motor would be such rocket science.
If it was an actual concern, the front axle regeneration could have been a spec part. Other FIA world championships use such spec parts, for example the Bosch motor on the rear axle of LMDh cars or this Lucid Motors part in Formula E. F1 could literally just use the very same motor:
@woelkchen@Sentau so i am not alone in thinking that this is an intentional plan to make the electric portion a weak point on purpose for political and economic reasons outside of F1? They made this years car extremely complicated on purpose. Hybrid powertrains and active aero are not new or cutting edge at all anymore. They just wanted the car to get worse. Fuck this.
so i am not alone in thinking that this is an intentional plan to make the electric portion a weak point on purpose for political and economic reasons outside of F1?
MBS extended the exclusivity contract for electric racing with Formula E into the 2040s, ensuring that Formula 1 cannot be fully electric for all that time. Not that F1 would need to be electric but MBS simply made sure that such a discussion cannot happen.
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eksb@programming.dev · 4 pts · 91d
Couldn't this all have been avoided by putting an electric motor on the front axle?
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 91d
Of course but MBS is buddy with / lackie to oil sheikhs. Making anything electric look bad is his job.
Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 91d
This is not the reason. Teams were deathly afraid that Audi would get an advantage because they have good experience with front wheel regeneration from WEC.
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 91d
Of course it is.
That's the excuse and a mightily stupid excuse as well. As if a simple harvesting motor would be such rocket science.
If it was an actual concern, the front axle regeneration could have been a spec part. Other FIA world championships use such spec parts, for example the Bosch motor on the rear axle of LMDh cars or this Lucid Motors part in Formula E. F1 could literally just use the very same motor:
bellegraylane@universeodon.com · 1 pts · 90d
@woelkchen @Sentau so i am not alone in thinking that this is an intentional plan to make the electric portion a weak point on purpose for political and economic reasons outside of F1? They made this years car extremely complicated on purpose. Hybrid powertrains and active aero are not new or cutting edge at all anymore. They just wanted the car to get worse. Fuck this.
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d
MBS extended the exclusivity contract for electric racing with Formula E into the 2040s, ensuring that Formula 1 cannot be fully electric for all that time. Not that F1 would need to be electric but MBS simply made sure that such a discussion cannot happen.