Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
You probably never watched an electric race yourself, right? Otherwise you would know that it's boring as hell. From my own experience you can sleep just next to the track and not only because it's quiet but also because the behavior of electric cars is so much more boring that it hurts (the torque vectoring, traction, torque curve, everything is way too ideal to give any excitement; in simple words the cars not only sound lazy but they also look lazy even though they are not).
I never watched a WRC-level rally with an electric car.... probably cause there hasn't been one.
How "lazy" behavior of the car will be depends a lot on what the rules are for everything. Still can't see how it can't be exciting jumping sideways at 150 kph on fast gravel rally. Neither can I see how it is going to be quiet on gravel.

On tarmac it depends much more on the rules, but say a 2006 WRC with 3 active diffs on smooth tarmac in Spain isn't exactly massive excitement either. As to the sound, tires are by far the loudest sound coming from an R5 car doing over 90 kph.