Fake pit stops..........starting the race on half charged batterys

to try to make it look exciting.....is see-through BS by everyone.

The reason we have crap battery race cars is because leftist tyrant dictators tried forcing crap battery cars onto the public against the public will. Racing makes them seem more "normal".

Formula E's new Pit Boost adds another layer of unpredictability is the BS title of this article.

Battery cars are crap and it's only a matter of time before the public is going to catch on that battery cars catch fire faster than
they take to recharge.

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emailBy Dominik Wilde | February 14, 2025 8:10 PM ET

After a lengthy gestation period, Formula E’s new Pit Boost BS made its debut in the first race of the Jeddah E-Prix. The 34 second stops – 30 seconds of charging with 34 seconds total mandatory stationary time – came as drivers entered a window of 60-40 percent state of charge. The end result was a race fought to the end in typical Formula E fashion, albeit without the tense “peloton style” of pack energy saving that has been a fixture of Formula E races throughout the BS GEN3 era. It more closely resembled a more traditional open-wheel race in some ways to some unknowledgeable spectators.

Why not just make 34 second stops mandatory sometime during the "race" to make it look like something was happening?

One of the key thoughts behind Pit Boost was to introduce more strategic variety to an otherwise boring parade of battery race cars. Technological demonstration aside, that might seem somewhat needless. Formula E races already have that with " Attack Mode" 2nd gear that can only be used with race official permission.and are already unpredictable, with luck often being a key pillar to a BS race victory.

While the start and the end of the race provided the same lack of entertainment Formula E races usually do, the middle stanza when everyone was pitting seemed to create something of a lull as we waited for everyone to take their mandatory stop and the race order to shake out for the final push to the end.

Of course, that’s nothing new in races with mandatory stops, but the Jeddah Corniche circuit’s short length – 1.865 miles in its Formula E guise, 1.971 miles shorter than the F1 layout – created something akin to an exaggerated fake pursuit that wasn’t the easiest race to follow.

Longtime race leader Oliver Rowland used his first Attack Mode 2nd gear permission to build a gap before pitting, hoping that it would be enough of a buffer to maintain the lead after the stops. Maximilian Guenther, meanwhile, used both of his Attack Mode 2nd gear permissions afterwards, allowing him to charge to the finish.

Rowland mentioned that had he known how much battery energy Guenther had, he might have approached the race differently, and Jake Hughes – the first driver to make a Pit Boost mandatory 34 second stop – admitted that understanding what others are doing will be key to making a success out of the new element.

Maybe next they will try mandatory stops to change tires which don't need to be changed, to make it look like a real race.

“Obviously being the first race with Pit Boost mandatory 34 second stops for everyone brought a whole new element to the competition,” he said. “I think we have learned some good lessons from the race, even I had some important mental lessons. I think just understanding how to use the battery recharge in the Pit Boost 34 second stop is going to be quite a big discussion point.”

The strategic variety afforded by Pit Boost brought about what will likely go down as one of Formula E’s all-time classic finishes. But with Pit Boost not being a factor in Saturday’s race, or any other battery car race there will be more diversity still – and something that will likely at least look familiar.

“I think we’ll get a race like Portland, Misano — high energy-saving races where it’s going to be a bit of a mess in the beginning [and] qualifying will probably be less important,” Rowland said of how Saturday’s race might compare to Friday night’s. “We’ll see what people prefer. I expect tomorrow to be much more chaotic, and people winning from 15th, possibly.”

Friday winner Maximilian Guenther wasn’t down about the added unpredictability.

“I think it’s really cool to have [different kinds of] races, because the dynamic is very different,” he said. “Tomorrow we will see a very different kind of racing, but it will actually be the same old BS boring show.”
Pit Boost is a massive lead in technological development, but the change goes beyond having more gadgets in the cars. Andrew Ferraro/Motorsport Images

“It just shows Formula E’s progress in terms of technology, that in 30 seconds you can charge the car 10 percent, which is actually incredible,” Guenther said. “This, under competitive conditions, is cool. It brings another element of excitement for the fans, for us in the car, for the engineers and the teams in the garage. I really think it’s a great addition to the championship.”

Rowland was equally positive about the introduction of Pit Boost, but warned against passing a full judgement just yet, and suggested how it was used could be changed in future depending on the race.

“I think it’s the first step towards the future,” he said. “First of all, let’s get it working. Today was quite a clean race, which I think helped the spectacle, if it could be called that. I think we’re going to have a few hiccups along the way, when full course yellows and safety cars come out.

Maybe we can pay two drivers to crash and that crash can be used to bring out yellow flags, and then we can do some laps with a safety car to make battery cars seem like real racing.
We can't make battery car races longer to where they might actually NEED to charge the battery, since that would make an even longer boring race, and the public might notice
that we MUST have shorter races, because the crap they buy for the street has no real distance between charges.....and then street cars take forever to charge.
and never mind that when the battery goes DEAD the car comes to a complete stop no matter where it is and that might cause a REAL crash.....and real crashes cause real fires....

The downside of paying two drivers to crash is that they might catch fire, and that would look really bad on TV for it to be seen that the battery fire can't be put out.
And so far we can't find two suckers willing to risk dieing in a fire that can't be put out.

Battery cars are crap and it's only a matter of time before the public is going to catch on that battery cars catch fire faster than
they take to recharge. When that happens and the public refuses to start their day with a half full battery
and also refuses to get up early for a MUCH LONGER than 34 second recharge half way to work, well..... we have to hide those things longer so the public doesn't catch on.

Maybe we can create a cheating scandal by paying a driver to get caught hiding a battery inside his driving suit......unfortunately that might announce to the world...
either that battery cars 1. need more battery or 2. battery cars won't go the distance. We may have to use a fake battery in the suit so that luckless bastard doesn't set himself on fire.

Darned it,...if only battery cars weren't such crap, we wouldn't have to lie so much.....maybe if I could get better at lieing, I could run as a democrat politician...
but...democrat socialist tyrants saving the planet is why we have battery cars to start with....