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Sounds like a super idea! I do it as a 'rally', whatever is safe - and legal...Is anyone interested in putting on a 12 car road rally for all electric cars?
We could start with a twelve car rally, which has all the rules of a road rally but is usually contained in about forty miles in an evening. these require no PR work( PR work was done in the past on account of the noise involved), or at least not much, a route timed at under the speed limit, a start venue in a car park and a cozy pub for the finish before closing time.Sounds like a super idea! I do it as a 'rally', whatever is safe - and legal.
In my youth we had 'treasure hunts' by car, which were usually fun - the social event at the end had some purpose? You could run matched trials, on different routes, to the same destination. Just need some clever maths to work out the performance / efficiency scores? Using a sequence of 3 or more rapid chargers could add an additional random element to the results! A least one has to be 'red'?
Those Forumula-e cars do sound a bit rough with the clanking sound. I hope that is something that was only on the prototypes and we can expect a nice electric sound later in the year!Did anyone else notice the furore over the new F1 format. Apparently the engine noise of the hybrids , as F1 cars now are, is not raucous enough for the petrol heads of Melbourne. What would they make of high speed electric cars?
Yes but at Melbourne the crowds would have been used to V8 Supercars doing the Bathurst 1000, to me all other forms of motorsport must kneel at the spectacle! go watch and be amazed.Did anyone else notice the furore over the new F1 format. Apparently the engine noise of the hybrids , as F1 cars now are, is not raucous enough for the petrol heads of Melbourne. What would they make of high speed electric cars?