FIA Formula E Championship 2014-15

[wolfhound]

Planning permission has been confirmed for the Battersea races on 27&28th June.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117730

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by W.A Trichlorostyrene

Battersea layout revealed: http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/2...een-light.aspx

Basically 3 slow left turns and 5 chicanes. Far from the proposed layout that looked very fast and flowing.

It's the same combination of the North Parade, where the start finish line is and Carriage Drive. Shame they felt it necessary to put a chicane in the middle of the South stretch of Carriage Drive.



I didn't know the track was anti-clockwise.

[W.A Trichlorostyrene]

Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

It's the same combination of the North Parade, where the start finish line is and Carriage Drive. Shame they felt it necessary to put a chicane in the middle of the South stretch of Carriage Drive.

Memory playing tricks, sorry. Still, putting a chicane on the backstretch makes T10-T11 much less challenging all of a sudden.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by W.A Trichlorostyrene

Memory playing tricks, sorry. Still, putting a chicane on the backstretch makes T10-T11 much less challenging all of a sudden.

Fairenough. I agree with what you say about T10-T11 and it would have been the only really long straight on the track, where they could open up the cars. I think they missed a trick there.

[joeb]

Things are progressing with the drivetrain regs:

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/n...manufacturers/
The CEO has some very sensible words about technology's role in racing:


"One of our objectives from the beginning was to promote technology competition but we cannot do that as organisers of the championship, we need ‘actors’ to join and to develop technologies to fight against each other in the races. Through this fight we improve the technology and then with this improved technology we improve electric cars in general."*

[Go_For_Pole]

Are we talking manufacturers here or simply teams wishing to further develop their cars? I can't really see for example Andretti to develop a new engine.

[Metzo]

the layout for berlin: http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/calend...n-circuit.aspx

dont like the 3 chicanes at the end of the lap

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[Clervaux]

Berlin track looks very twisty but more of a natural race track than some of the layouts seen so far. Quite optimistic that it will provide some good racing action

[AoB Special Stage]

Amazing how Beijing was so awful, but Punta del Este actually had a proper layout. They seem to be schizophrenic about good design. Liking Berlin and Moscow so far, but we'll see for sure in May.

[bella]

it strikes me as a shame that berlin has a vast amount of space at their disposal, but uses a tinysmall area presumably either under the 'better for spectators' banner or perhaps 'keeps to smaller winding tracks because cornering and acceleration is more visually impressive' or even 'car's not all that fast but the first year is about promoting an idea and a principle'.

i adore tempelhof, it's an epic building and the airfield has a fascinating history so i hope there's some more work done with the press to explore that. my realistic side says that there's too many different attitudes towards exploring the events of the world wars, particularly between germany and the uk. so nothing will be said or done. bit of a shame really.

[BertMk2]

Originally Posted by bella

it strikes me as a shame that berlin has a vast amount of space at their disposal, but uses a tinysmall area presumably either under the 'better for spectators' banner or perhaps 'keeps to smaller winding tracks because cornering and acceleration is more visually impressive' or even 'car's not all that fast but the first year is about promoting an idea and a principle'.

i adore tempelhof, it's an epic building and the airfield has a fascinating history so i hope there's some more work done with the press to explore that. my realistic side says that there's too many different attitudes towards exploring the events of the world wars, particularly between germany and the uk. so nothing will be said or done. bit of a shame really.

It's an odd layout isn't it? As you say with all that space available it seems a waste to just use the apron in front of the main building. The upside of course is that the backdrop of the race coverage will be dominated by the building - which is of course an amazing piece of architecture.

[Down F0rce]

Got my ticket for Berlin. Having a back to back summer holiday with the N24 the previous week.

The track looks better than some of the others - more fast and flowing and less 90 right, 90 left etc. My main worry is that it will end up looking like Sochi with barriers and fences everywhere, making visibility limited.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by BertMk2

It's an odd layout isn't it? As you say with all that space available it seems a waste to just use the apron in front of the main building. The upside of course is that the backdrop of the race coverage will be dominated by the building - which is of course an amazing piece of architecture.

As you can see from these two pics, especially the second one the apron is quite a large area.

[bella]

it's not a huge percentage of the entire site though, that's the point. between 10-15%, at a vague guess. it's a massive place.

the existing bits of concrete/tarmac don't necessarily join together in a way that would allow them to make a decent circuit out of it i suppose. not when you take the scale of the runways into account.

obviously given it's a completely flat space visibility will be limited by debris fences and that sort of thing but if they put the grandstands high enough then actual visibility of the entire layout will be epic.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by bella

it's not a huge percentage of the entire site though, that's the point. between 10-15%, at a vague guess. it's a massive place.

the existing bits of concrete/tarmac don't necessarily join together in a way that would allow them to make a decent circuit out of it i suppose. not when you take the scale of the runways into account.

obviously given it's a completely flat space visibility will be limited by debris fences and that sort of thing but if they put the grandstands high enough then actual visibility of the entire layout will be epic.

I've been to Berlin and you can see how massive it is in the first pic. I don't the layout as it is with the runways would make for a particularly good track, then again there is that peripheral road.

[Clervaux]

At least it looks like a completely different circuit and backdrop than what we have seen earlier in the season. Should bring its own unique atmosphere to the event and that can only be a good thing I think.

[Go_For_Pole]

Cash flow problems for Formula E according to autosport.com, history repeating :-)

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Go_For_Pole

Cash flow problems for Formula E according to autosport.com, history repeating :-)

Which article is that?

[PabloTeK]

Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

Which article is that?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117973

The last line is: "The new investment comes at a time when Formula E is known to be facing cash-flow problems."

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by PabloTeK

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117973

The last line is: "The new investment comes at a time when Formula E is known to be facing cash-flow problems."

Thanks, .

[kurski]

FIA Formula E may the next year or 2017 to go to Montreal, gave Denis Coderre clues and Jacuqs Villeneuve also interested Formula E full time.

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by kurski

FIA Formula E may the next year or 2017 to go to Montreal, gave Denis Coderre clues and Jacuqs Villeneuve also interested Formula E full time.

JV in Formula E, now that would be interesting.

[Formulahistory]

hope to see Villeneuve at the Indy 500 again.

[helgi]

Track layouts for FE are just dictated by the nature of electromobiles booted with narrow road tyres. They won't be impressive in flowing turns, so you need more chicanes and 90-degrees. But high torque compensate it a bit during acceleration, as, I think, longitudinal forces are not so demanding for the tyres as lateral ones.