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1. boredatoms · 1791167041 · focus · HN ↗

   Time to go back to NA engines, the hybrids don't give the rock concert wall of sound

   1. penskymaterial · 1791174065 · focus · HN ↗

      I don't follow motorsports very closely, sorry, but racing hybrids sounds extremely queer.

      They might as well not do it at all.

      You cannot greenwash auto racing as "sustainable" when by its very nature it need not exist. It's done for sport.

      It's like people who hunt exotic animals agreeing to put suppressors on their rifles as if that somehow makes it more acceptable.

      1. RantyDave · 1791174810 · focus · HN ↗

         In theory: it's not greenwashing, it's so that the humungous amounts of resources they put into developing F1 engines are not completely wasted ... so that some of the tech can "trickle down" to road car engines. Hence, the interest in hybrids. At least they get to learn how to charge a battery really, really fast.

         In practice, of course, it's all going to go a bit south when road cars go to 90% EV. There is already a "formula E", of course.

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