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F1 needs to look at Formula E, which is not only building better and quicker electric cars with each passing season but is also producing brilliant wheel to wheel racing.
Most F1 fans desperately need a bunched up field for the race to be exciting throughout the duration of the race. Currently, the electric cars are better at proving that spectacle and they aim to get better at it in the near future.
Formula E champion Lucas Di Grassi has come out with his own wish-list, urging the championship to set even more ambitious performance targets with its future regulations.
The current set of Generation 2 Formula E cars now have 250 kW power (approximately 335 bhp), a top speed of 280 kmph, and accelerates from 0-100 in a mere 2.8 seconds.
The 2016-17 champion, Lucas di Grassi, wishes to see future Formula E cars out-perform Formula 1 cars:
"Formula E must be the fastest-accelerating racing car in the world. It has to accelerate zero to 200 quicker than F1, quicker than rallycross, quicker than all these cars. Because electrical power trains are made for acceleration – like Teslas, like all these super-fast electric cars. You have to go to four-wheel-drive, you have to go to a different weight distribution, you have to do a lot of different stuff. You have to improve the tyres too to increase the grip.You can maybe put move-able aerodynamics. You can go as wild as you think."
The championship and the cars have come a long way from their debut season 5 years ago. All of this has been made possible with the battery technology making new inroads after having stalled for a long time with breakthroughs being made in terms of battery density, efficiency and recharging.
