Millenial here. This thing is fun to watch. Have seen every minute and will continue to do so.
I'm not sure about that. The $1m gets mentioned a lot in press stories and may be a way to excite viewers. So long as LE is funding, the $1m year is not huge compared to the boat development, $30m team operating budgets, venue costs, etc. Those are big. For someone like LE, so long as he engaged with $ailGP I think they can do the prize.
Yeah cars running around with a thermal efficiency rate 4 times higher than a regular vehicle engine, yeah that kinda progress sucks. (They extract nearly four times the energy from a given quantity of fuel than a road car) add in the regenerative braking, heat recovery into stored energy. yeah that all sounds crap.
It does really. Hence the endless greenwash videos of AC sailors collecting plastic from the beach.
Because it is - a load of fucking crap. I couldn't give two fucks about the efficiency of F1 engines. We all should have been driving electric cars years ago. You can blame big oil and their determination to keep us addicted to fossil fuels and ICE. (not the drug)
So you dont give a fuck that they hybrid engine tech has a road car application
Here in Aus - a continent bathed in sunshine, the potential for renewable energy has nowhere near reached its limit. Instead we have a right wing Govt trying to shove coal down our throats.
Okay lets just not do it and carry on like we are? It's not like we've ever had to start from scratch to build infrastructure have we? Anyway this a sailing forum, go peddle your pro oil, pro fracking, pro Ineos bullshit somewhere else.
I'm a Kiwi, I just live in Oz. I'll watch the F50's, I'm just not buying into the hype coming from Wussell or Slingers.
It should be illegal. I got into a bit of anti fracking activism a few years ago when they wanted to frack some prime agricultural land around here. (The Bentley Blockade) We made the news world wide, and we stopped it going ahead - felt good to do my little bit.
I can’t believe I’m the one defending the odious lazza but cleans tenuous grasp of the truth would have you forget that lazza funded Oracle Team USA from 2003 thru 2017...
I don't give a fuck where they get the shit or take it as long as it is far from where I live. I am just tired of breathing exhaust when I walk around my city or go cycling and EV would solve that problem. You don't think the materials in those F1 engines get ripped out of the same ground and brought to you on the same fairy wings? At least the electricity whether its from coal or natural gas can be generated outside of the city where I live and I don't have to breath it.
5 years? Who's to say the F50 will still be around in 5 years? Reasonable chance they won't be. The ultimate fate of Larry's cat fleet is an interesting one, as they don't really have a secondary role. That aside, there's a strong chance the F50 will never line up against an AC75 as no one owns both.
One F50 might make it back to NZ for development purposes, but I reckon there's buckley's chance the fleet will make it back. You don't ship 40 containers around for the fun of it. There might be other scenarios somewhere else where the two might bump into each other - New York or the UK perhaps? I still think it's a long shot.
