Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2018
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16th March 2018, 06:51 #1121
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In my view, M-Sport has made a huge step in securing manufacturer interest for rallying. Rallying is a method of developing technology and marketing the cars, and if the car manufacturers are going electric, they are not going to be interested in putting their money in combust engine rallying. Instead, electric rallying could spark up interest in new manufacturers.
At the same time, this change won't happen overnight, maybe not even in a decade. The technology is still new, especially to the sport. Even if WRC became all electric, all the combustion engine rally cars would not disappear and would most likely be used in historic/clubman rallies as long as there's some liquid to burn in them.
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16th March 2018, 08:34 #1122
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Relax, the next set of regulations will surely consist on some kind of Hybrid system (mild or not), before going all electric.
Regarding the sound, it is a known problem by manufacteurs and there are some very good engineers working to solve that, Mclaren for example has completely dismissed an all electric car for the foreseeable future until they find a solution to make it sound as exciting as there other models (even if they already have an all electric mule running).
Regarding the popularity of electric car racing, I think the low volume of engagement of the Fomrula E page of this forum is pretty self explanatory.
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16th March 2018, 09:07 #1123
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I do think the sound is a big part of the experience, no matter how the car performs or handles.. ie. S2000 cars were much more entertaining than R5 despite being slower.
But we can’t do anything about it, the future is electric. In the not too distant future I doubt any manufacturer will want to market a petrol car.
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16th March 2018, 10:29 #1129
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Whereas on the Autosport forum the Mexican E-Prix got 3 pages of comments - WRC Mexico got a handful of comments. I actually find it staggering that people are more interested in 'scaletrix' racing than WRC. I think it's doing a lot better than many on here may realise.
Is there a better sound than that of Porsche engined Flat-6 ???
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16th March 2018, 10:52 #1130
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What is true is that FE promoters are doing a fantastic job promoting what they are given, they know it's difficult to promote the series (empty stands), so they are spending quite a lot of money on social media (some of the comments of the FE twitter page are from people being paid to do so).
Also, having celebs like Leonardo Dicaprio or Orlando bloom attending the races via invite does wonders for you sport you know smh.
I admire your will Mirek to argue with the windmills here.
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