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Formula E: racing on electric cars
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This coming Saturday in Beijing, the first stage of racing Formula E . The championship was attended by about 40 high-speed cars from 10 teams. Among the pilots - Nick Heidfeld, Nelson Piquet, Sebastien and others known in the past racers. Participates Nicolas Prost (son of Alan Prost). Jarno Trulli has one of the team and he is going to take part in the race, along with the Lady, copilot Michele Cerutti.
Almost in silence fireballs acceleration to 225 km / h and will struggle for leadership in the city center.
The following steps will take place in the Formula E London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Long Beach and Miami.
Since no gas tanks on cars with a lot of highly flammable fuel, there is much less security restrictions than usual F1. Because of this, as well as in connection with a silent car race of the Formula E can be carried out directly in the city center. It did so the organizers of the Beijing stage. Soon the race will be held in central London.
Racing "Formula" in the middle of the city - a truly unique spectacle that will attract tens of thousands of spectators.
Interestingly, for the first season, all participating teams organizers decided to use the same race cars Spark-Renault SRT_01E. These machines use a lot of technology from Formula-1, then a group of engineers working out of McLaren and Williams.
Another interesting feature of racing - no refills at the pit stop. The technology does not allow fast charge batteries of cars, so every pilot will receive an two i> machine. Around the middle of the race in the pits for his replacement car.
Formula E - not only competition, but also a test platform for testing new technologies. As in Formula 1, automobile manufacturers are run in the latest engineering solutions, which can then be used in commercial vehicles. In addition, the formula E should promote "clean" technologies among motorsport fans.
Organizers hope that technological advances will allow quickly improve the performance of a racing car. Now the battery lasts only 25-30 minutes, but in the near future it will be possible to carry out the entire race is entirely on one battery.
Team List
Virgin Racing (UK) Venturi (Monaco), one of the owners - actor Leonardo DiCaprio Mahindra Racing (India), a manufacturer of commercial electric vehicles li > e.dams-Renault (France), one of the owners - Alain Prost Dragon Racing (USA) China Racing (China), and financed by the Government expects to construct a car for three years Audi Sport ABT (Germany) Andretti Formula E (USA), one of the owners - Michael Andretti Amlin Aguri (Japan) Trulli (Switzerland), one of the owners - Jarno Trulli
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