• @acosmichippo
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    -26 months ago

    why do you automatically equate ICE with passion? why can’t we be passionate about electric drivetrains too?

    • @mhague
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      26 months ago

      I don’t. I prefer the sounds of the newer hybrids over v10s for example.

      I meant that we shouldn’t have to have so many regulations conducive to tech trickling down to consumers now that that cycle is less of the profit margin. They’re making more and more simply from occupying a grid slot, some of that should come back to fans in the form of rules for racing’s sake.

      • @acosmichippo
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        5 months ago

        but you don’t need massive, overcomplicated ICE’s for racing’s sake, that’s the point.

    • @BURN
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      15 months ago

      Because electric drivetrains are boring.

      The soul of a car almost always comes from the engine. The experience of driving the car is massively impacted by the engine. All of that is gone in an electric drivetrain, replaced with basically a go button.

      I’ll never have an interest in driving an electric car as a road car, let alone as a race car.

      • @acosmichippo
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        15 months ago

        this is just metaphysical nonsense.

        • @BURN
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          15 months ago

          And that’s all that passion is. You asked why electric drivetrains don’t invoke the same kind of passion as ICE drivetrains, and I gave you an answer.

          Electric cars can be objectively better, and I’ll still prefer to drive an ICE.

          • @acosmichippo
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            15 months ago

            but we’re not talking about driving, we’re talking about watching f1.