Just when I was beginning to enjoy it.jjn9128 wrote: ↑23 May 2018, 17:19Hmmmmm more of this "mario kart" idea coming out. "Hyperboost" they're calling it atm. Drivers have to drive over a specific part of a circuit to get 4 minutes of higher power mode. Also it's mandatory to do it twice per race?! If it's mandatory why not just give them 8 minutes of push to pass??
https://www.autosport.com/fe/news/13625 ... lan-emerge
We're also losing bonus points for fastest lap, to be replaced by the eco-driver of the race award.
Have to see what how it ends up working in practice but it screams gimmick to me. Perhaps also says they have less faith in the new bodykit as the wonder solution for wheel-to-wheel action.
But you and I are never going to get enough 'votes' in to make a difference. Look at the 'winners' from last year.
I seem to recall Ma Qinghua/Ho Pin Tung winning fan boost a lot in season 1... they've changed the rules to make it less manipulable. I don't think it has often been a race-changing device. In fact in normally ruins their battery targets similar to Indy when they're fuel saving and can't use push-to-pass.
The way Agag described it was like picking up a powerup in Mario kart (/similar racing games) so they have to go to a point on the track, sound like it'll be off line around a corner.
Ugh... Why do they go for BS like this. Just double the power and use racing slicks and interest will increase. (Maybe get rid of the annoying whine of the gears)jjn9128 wrote: ↑23 May 2018, 17:19Hmmmmm more of this "mario kart" idea coming out. "Hyperboost" they're calling it atm. Drivers have to drive over a specific part of a circuit to get 4 minutes of higher power mode. Also it's mandatory to do it twice per race?! If it's mandatory why not just give them 8 minutes of push to pass??
https://www.autosport.com/fe/news/13625 ... lan-emerge
We're also losing bonus points for fastest lap, to be replaced by the eco-driver of the race award.
Doubling the power may be hard they're already increasing peak power in quali from 200kw to 250kW, I think it was 180kW in season 1, as well as doubling the range from the batteries (the new battery is 54kWh, up from 28kWh for about the same weight). Despite having ~1/3 of F1 power the top speed in the new car will be 280km/hr - which is really fast considering how tight the tracks are. Racing slicks and more power would mean they couldn't race in city centres, where other series (eg F1) just wouldn't have the steering lock. The tyre's are also a means of making the cars slide which means the drivers make mistakes which makes for passing opportunities.
In fact it's trivial. Keep the car-swap and you can have double the power.
This has no reality basis. The tires are a nonfactor to where they can race or not.
What the series needs is viewers.
Don't put words in my mouth.
That's on face value, a pretty bold claim - strad..
mzso wrote: ↑24 May 2018, 12:56Ugh... Why do they go for BS like this. Just double the power and use racing slicks and interest will increase. (Maybe get rid of the annoying whine of the gears)jjn9128 wrote: ↑23 May 2018, 17:19Hmmmmm more of this "mario kart" idea coming out. "Hyperboost" they're calling it atm. Drivers have to drive over a specific part of a circuit to get 4 minutes of higher power mode. Also it's mandatory to do it twice per race?! If it's mandatory why not just give them 8 minutes of push to pass??
https://www.autosport.com/fe/news/13625 ... lan-emerge
We're also losing bonus points for fastest lap, to be replaced by the eco-driver of the race award.