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Future of motorsport looks more and more like hybrid is leading the way.

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tronned
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love this fucking car.

the sound it makes on pit exit is fucking amazing.



Sep 1 2012 12:12AM
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Joebin
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The technology of batteries is going to have to advance a lot more before an electric race car becomes practical. Mostly due to battery weight. They just weigh too much as of now to make a race car light and nimble while still having a great enough range to make a race worth watching.
Sep 1 2012 1:02AM
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tronned
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this thread isnt about electric race cars, its about hybrids.

and there is plenty of hybrid race cars now a days.


electric cars will never catch on.
Sep 1 2012 1:06AM
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Joebin
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Wow I dun goofed. Apparently the next NSX honda is developing will be a hybrid.
Sep 1 2012 1:19AM
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MacNsteaze
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good point plus the range of batteries if fucking horrible, if a battery powered car can barely make it 300-400 miles then how far could a race car going pedal to the metal, balls to the wall go? good ol combustion engines ftw
Sep 1 2012 1:24AM
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tronned
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again, i think you missed the point. This thread is about HYBRID race cars, not electric.
Sep 1 2012 2:36AM
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MacNsteaze
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ya i got you, just agreeing with him that electric cars still got a ways to go

HYBRIDS however have been around for a little bit and have been slowly improving to become some amazing cars, tesla's line of hybrid cars have always been crazy and pushing the limits for new hybrid/battery cars performance wise
have you seen this one?



jaguars new car that seems promising, saw it in a top gear and it looked insane but cant find a better video of it
Sep 1 2012 2:55AM
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k-rob
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future of touring, but motorsports as a whole? hell no. the r-18 e-tron quattro may have won le mans but hybrid's have a hell of a long way to go before they make it into every other facet of racing. f1 cars from 1992 would still fuck up that toyota in the op.
Sep 1 2012 4:12AM
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tronned
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you realize that f1 cars have been hybrids for 3 seasons now?
Sep 1 2012 4:51AM
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k-rob
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if it weren't for everything cool and innovative about f1 being banned in the 90s they wouldn't be driving hybrids now. not that the hybrids aren't cool and all, but the future of f1 was in the past.
Sep 1 2012 6:44AM
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MacNsteaze
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mindfucked


Sep 1 2012 7:12PM
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tronned
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not so much. I have a feeling you dont know much about the tech behind f1.

the tech in f1 today is 10 fold what it was in the 90's which subdues the racing a little bit.

in the 90's the car were more raw.

there was some new tech in 93 for electric suspension which is adjusted real time by an on board computer, which was banned real fast but in the grand scheme of things the tech behind KERS blows the electric dampen system out of the water.
Sep 1 2012 7:28PM
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k-rob
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i disagree on a few things because although f1 tech today is very advanced it would be lightyears ahead if not for all the bans, they don't hold much gain on the cars of the 90s in anything except new engine tech. either way i still hold my position that hybrids are the future of touring and not racing as a whole. the electric systems get blown way out of proportion when it's really the diesel engine doing all the work.
Sep 1 2012 8:51PM
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