Internal combustion-powered cars to race alongside EVs in World RX
Sustainably-fueled internal combustion-engined cars will return to the World Rallycross championship next season alongside the current electric cars, marking the first time both technologies have c…
I look forward to the EVs erupting in flames from overheated lithium batteries.
Wonder what will stop first: the race, or the fire.
at the professional level, they'll be fine. for a short race Sprint like a rallycross race, I imagine the only disadvantage a battery would have would be the weight. they'll never let the race go for a long enough distance where capacity is a problem like it is in the consumer cars world.
I assume racecars have some kind of cooling. One of the dumb things about consumer EVs is where they put the batteries. They're in the floorboard where you can't really flow air over them.
For the past couple years, World Rallycross has been an all EV series that has seen declining interest and grid sizes since going down that route.
Now, the organizers are taking the sensible route and allowing ICE cars to race against EV cars, effectively letting both the market and merit decide which technology is better.
I actually think this is good news that may compel me to start watching this series again. Hopefully Travis Pastrana's Nitrocross series does something similar for American rallycross too.
These things sound like RC cars. I don't want my race tracks to sound like a golf course. I want to hear the engines screaming when they go flying by. I think it was BMW that discovered that drivers hated their newer cars because they filtered out so much engine noise that the drivers felt something was wrong with the vehicle. There wasn't enough feedback for their actions and it was disorienting, so now they pipe engine sound into the "cabin" to compensate.