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Formula E is an all-electric championship sanctioned by the FIA. With its third season getting underway today, I thought I'd post a thread for us to discuss it in, because I think it is some of the best motorsport you can watch today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKReRDsOT44&feature=youtu.be&a Why watch Formula E? As a new, casual race fan, I loving love Formula E. First off, races are only 50 minutes long. This is actually not by design, but because of battery limitations. See, in Formula E, instead of having a single car you make last to the end of the race, every driver has two cars, each with 25 minutes worth of battery. Unlike in Formula 1, where tire, engine, and brake wear come into play, in Formula E, drivers only worry about making their battery last and, for the love of god, not crashing and wasting one of their two cars. I love these short itty-bitty races, though, as someone who's usually completely tuned out an hour into an F1 or NASCAR race. It makes me hope battery technology never actually gets good enough to let them have longer races, though I guess more efficient batteries would probably also be good for, like, humanity as a whole or whatever. Second, the drivers are minor league in the best way. There's always drivers in each race that just gently caress up a turn and go out of the race - it's not a league full of perfect driving like in F1. This makes races way more exciting, IMO. At the same time, the drivers are good enough that you'll find yourself rooting for at least one by the end of the season. But my favorite thing about the league is that it's just silly as gently caress. It has an official DJ, Fanboost, and this year they're setting up a self-driving car support series called Roborace. But while it's gimmicky, it's never at the expense of the quality of racing. It's just much more lighthearted than the stoic nature of F1.  Drivers & Teams Here's a giant cheat-sheet of teams and drivers I stole from Reddit:  How to Watch TV US: Fox Sports 1 & 2 (+ the Fox Sports GO app) UK: Channel 5 Elsewhere: http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/championship/tv-schedule/ Online Live streams are not available in the US due to geoblocking (I believe this is true for the UK too). However, Youtube streams are available for events not broadcast on TV (in other words, Free Practice 1). I'm not sure exactly where Formula E is streaming for non-geoblocked viewers this year. Last year it was DailyMotion, but I think this year they're on Youtube? In addition to live streams, Formula E is unique in that the FIA posts excellent highlight videos on their official Youtube channel. Quoth The Verge: quote:Outside of certain countries (like the US), Formula E streams its races for free. If you miss a race, the series usually has a 5–6-minute highlight video posted to YouTube within the first 24 hours. A 15-minute highlight package typically gets posted within a week, and shortly after that the series always uploads a 50-minute version — essentially the full race for free. If you're coming into the season late, I highly recommend checking out past highlight videos! Race Schedule 1. Hong Kong Oct 9 2016 50 Minute Higlights 2. Marrakesh Nov 12 2016 Race replay / 50 Minute Highlights 3. Buenos Aires Feb 18 2017 Race replay / 50 Minute Highlights 4. Mexico City Apr 1 2017 5. Monaco May 13 2017 6. Paris May 20 2017 7. Berlin June 10 2017 8. Brussels ePrix July 1 2017 9. New York July 15 2017 10. New York II July 16 2017 11. Montreal July 29 2017 12. Montreal II July 30 2017 Standings Check http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/results/standings/ for up-to-date standings. Other Resources The Formula E subreddit is pretty useful, and has a 24 hour spoiler policy, which is good for those of us who won't be staying up until 4am to watch races. abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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The next race is Saturday April 1 in Mexico City! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to4jItsw7L0 The cool site that used to list Formula E times is gone apparently, so here's the timetable in Eastern Daylight Time (add +4 hours for GMT, -2 hours for local): 10am - Free Practice 1 12:30pm - Free Practice 2 2pm - Qualifying 6pm - Race Check your local TV schedule here for additional help with local times. Also, for us Americans, the qualifying broadcast will be delaying until 4:30 on Fox Sports 2, so you might wanna stay outta the thread to avoid spoilers (or, more likely, just find a bootleg stream). abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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heads up for Americans staying up: for whatever reason, Fox Sports is airing the qualifying on a two and a half-hour delay  (it's not hard to get a stream since the geoblocking FIA does is pretty ineffective, but I'd like to support it legitimately, y'know? pump them ratings)
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this turn with the bumps and the crosswalk on it is loving brutalWindyMan posted:I was at the FE race in Long Beach in Season 1, and I'll never forget the sound of 22 electric race cars bombing down into the first chicane at the start. It was the most alien thing I've ever heard. It was amazing! I'm planning to go to at least one of the NY double header weekend in July, the track in Red Hook looks pretty dull but I'm excited for a local race either way!
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Oct 9, 2016 03:54
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fanboost people love this jose maria lopez dude huh
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qualifying is starting!
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they changed a chicane between FP2 and Qualifying, because Formula E gives no fucks
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holy poo poo so many people are down one car that slomo shot really reinforced my belief that road races need more rally-style ramps and jumps
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this chicane thing is like... someone's gonna lose their job after this right? how do you gently caress that up so bad e: super pole canceled, yikes!! abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Oct 9, 2016 |
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:Is this available in any freaking country? Hopefully this is cool by SAS rules (last I checked it's fine to share everything that isn't PPV) - the Formula E subreddit posts stable, non-geoblocked streams you can watch in VLC for every race, in addition to replay torrents that usually go up not that long after the race. Also, you can pop this stream URL into VLC and scrub the bar forward a bit to see a replay (copy-paste, don't click this link directly): http://aos001feh-live.hls.adaptive.level3.net/formulae/live/wif/streamVideo2000.m3u8 I'll probably just be DVRing Fox Sports in the future, though I don't remember how they handle ads. There's some complaints that Channel 5 in the UK did some real poorly-timed ad breaks, which is a bummer (though now y'all know how us Americans feel watching F1 on NBC )Here's the highlight video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPaggopePqA
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Full-length ""highlight video"" (re: the full race minus some safety car bits) is up now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCeFOg2shjk
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hey, yeah, Formula E is happening Saturday! Here's a time table, via http://whenisformulaeon.xyz/ (which has local time conversion if math is hard) Free Practice 1 8am local / 8am GMT / 3am EST Free Practice 2 10:30am local / 10:30am GMT / 5:30am EST Qualifying 12pm local / 12pm GMT / 7am EST Race 4pm local / 4pm GMT / 11am EST and here's a virtual lap to get a sense of the course: https://twitter.com/FIAformulaE/status/795905908991725568 as njsykora noted, it'll be neat to see Formula E on a semi-permanent race track for once. probably less chance of a turn suddenly being modified between qualifying and practice, and less chance of everyone hilariously loving up the same turn in practice  oh, and don't forget bout that fanboost: http://fanboost.fiaformulae.com/ abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Nov 10, 2016 |
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Nov 10, 2016 21:15
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shakedowns are today, I guess! here's a real lap of the track https://twitter.com/FIAformulaE/status/797095708373434368 I won't be around tomorrow to watch but I'm looking forward to catching the replay!
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the only way the vegas eRace could be more Formula E would be if it somehow counted for actual championship points
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Hah, I woke up late. Sounds like I missed an interesting qualifying. Grabbing breakfast and running back home to hopefully catch the first turn in time For some reason it's missing from Fox Sports Go today, but I found a stream link on Reddit. Think it's just a glitch on Fox Sports's end abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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we almost saw a robot kill a dog today https://twitter.com/roborace/status/833030665608249349
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 that pit release
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The next race is Saturday April 1 in Mexico City! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to4jItsw7L0 The cool site that used to list Formula E times is gone apparently, so here's the timetable in Eastern Daylight Time (add +4 hours for GMT, -2 hours for local): 10am - Free Practice 1 12:30pm - Free Practice 2 2pm - Qualifying 6pm - Race Check your local TV schedule here for additional help with local times. Also, for us Americans, the qualifying broadcast will be delaying until 4:30 on Fox Sports 2, so you might wanna stay outta the thread to avoid spoilers (or, more likely, just find a bootleg stream). If you missed Buenos Aires, here's the 50 minute version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDrQGI_j25k abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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just now watching the replay and Buemi and Lopez spinning out on the same turn 4 seconds apart was incredible that race owned abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Apr 4, 2017 |
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man I fell off Formula E kinda early last season and now stuff is geoblocked and harder to watch so maybe I won't bother with-MazeOfTzeentch posted:3-wide into turn 1, Lotterer bins it in turn 3 blocks the track for mortara evans and prost, red flag nevermind time to track down a stream
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