I do not know how F1 will recover from their Melbourne disaster.
No under braking passing.
No passing skills required.Just press the boast button.
The drivers are no longer racing drivers,the cars are now under complete control of the technicians..
If you are going to have batteries at least make their charging from the front brakes not the rear brakes.
I would much prefer getting rid of batteries and going back to V8 or V10 engines.
When the current champion did not see rubbish in front of him and ran over it because as he was too busy concentrating on his steering wheel dials,it is the end of real F1 racing.
Perhaps F1 may decide to have driverless cars.?
Lawson's bad start because of a low or faulty battery could have caused a very serious chain of events..Shear madness.
Bring back Prost,Mansell,Lauda days,and hurry up about it.
Will I be watching China race.?.No.
Think I will now follow Indy series,which has three NZ drivers competing.
I watched part of one of the All electric races once. It looked and sounded like my old Scalextric set. I gave up after about 5 minutes. F1 moving into electric has no appeal to me. Theres noting to beat the smell or noise of at least v8's
According to a ex F1 racing engineer, FI will never go full battery/electric and have the same sort of performance.
The batteries will just get too heavy and you are in a never ending circle. A 4 tonne F1 car will not be very fast!
Same with large commercial vehicles, though not sure how long the eclectic buses last??
His company are working on a sustainable fuel (i.e. synthetic petrol) and is working with the RAF amongst others.
Electric or Hydrogen is not the way to go.
Was at the Melbourne GP last weekend, the cars are certainly quieter. I think the order of loudness was the F3s, the Porsche Carrera cup cars, V8 supercars, the F2 cars then the F1 cars. Mind you the first 2 tend to go past in packs more so than the others
I would like smaller lighter cars, with Normally aspirated engines running on Bio Fuel, maybe a small battery as torque filler. These heavy large cars driven by algorithms having to slow down in fast corners to accumulate more energy is just not racing.
I'm with Max on this (not a fan of his)