The charm of a Grand Prix in the city, then. It’s a match fast: a GP and is an event that lasts only time on a Saturday afternoon. In the former airport – today one of the largest green lungs of Berlin – came in 21 thousand to follow the acrobatics of the pilots along the 17 curves obtained inside. Entire families and many children glued for 50 minutes in the stands to follow in silence the whine of frantic E-Cars.
Even the Circuit de Monaco were 23 thousand to follow the race. There, the show was free. In Miami, however, in 33 thousand they have paid a ticket. As in Berlin, where the cost was between 8 and 59 Euros the golden ticket. Moms and dads with kids in the stroller, to make the line from 11 am, in front of the airport that has marked the relationship with the United States (not for the Indiana Jones movie, but for relief that Americans sent to Berlin- west after the war). And once inside, way, back in the queue, more highly ordered, this time in front of shops with gadgets of the event (literally steals the t-shirt with the logo of E, from 25 euro).
Even Leonardo DiCaprio has decided to invest in the new show invented by Agag – but inspired by Jean Todt, the President of the FIA - the Venturi team, of which he is co-founder. So did Sir Richard Branson, who sponsors a team of his own.
At the halfway stage, a pit stop: not to change tires but to slip in the second car, with fully charged battery.
Ingenious, then, in the era of Facebook and participation in shots like is the idea of FanBoost: a surplus of 30 kW, for 5 seconds race, awarded to the three top drivers voted by the public until one hour before the start. “Berlin,” said the owner of the championship, presenting the race held in the old hangars of Tempelhof, “is the city where the issue of sustainability is most felt.”
The German colleagues, increasingly accustomed to scandals involving flop and also their capital (such as the airport Schönefeld, which does not take off) they have watched with a skeptical smile. Not even the powerful Angela Merkel, despite the billions of investments, has managed so far to actually launch electric cars in its Germany. Will Todt, Agag and their riders where there Kanzlerin and the big German car industry has so far failed?
Meanwhile, the limit imposed by the lithium-ion battery galvanizes engineers and tears to the public a bonus of sympathy for the new formula. Halfway through the race, in fact, every driver is obliged to stop for a pit stop: not to change tires but to slip and slip from the driver in the second car, whose batteries are fully charged.
“Every race is a boost to focus more and more on electrical technologies and thus build a more sustainable,” says Professor Peter Gutzmer, Schaeffler Group, partner of Audi Sport Team ABT. A race, then, into the future and a more advanced search. Not for nothing among the founding partners of Formula E is TAG Heuer, used to build tools are also used by Formula 1, which has decided to invest in this pioneering championship because it combines engineering, technology, science and design, not neglecting environmental issues .
“Drive the Future” could be read anywhere in Tempelhof. It will also be granted a slogan, but the groups of people to the stand of the Formula Student Electric, for the young engineers, were real. As well as the curious to photograph themselves in front of the BMW i8, not surprisingly safety car of the race. People, in Beijing, Miami and Berlin, it felt involved in what is not only a race, but a real test for mobility will be. This is not utopian or political programs, given that, as announced by Jean Todt, as soon as next season, “the goal is to increase the credibility of technology, keeping costs under control” with the opening of the season in the competition of manufacturers and investment engine and the transmission.
“Today wins in balancing the energy in a better way,” sums up Nick Heidfeld. Of course, cars are not fast and their screeching reminded someone vacuum cleaner. But also to many other machines of our childhood. It is to see that among the reasons why this formula arouses curiosity and there is also a psychological one.
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