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Bernie Ecclestone has said that Liberty Media should consider turning Formula 1 into an all-electric sport. F1 has incorporated major electrical power into the sport, with the hybrid engine regulations being introduced in 2014.
However, the electrical components function alongside internal combustion engines. Ecclestone was the boss of F1 for over forty years before being let off by Liberty Media, who completed its acquisition of the sport at the start of 2017.
Formula E, which is currently in its fourth season of running, has been a hot spot for leading manufacturers who want to grow electric car technology. Ecclestone thinks that F1 should consider making the switch to electrical power to match the growing business.
"We still own the name Formula 1, we still have contracts with promoters," Ecclestone told The Guardian. "Let’s make different types of cars, let’s speak to the manufacturers and start a new all-electric F1, a Formula 1 for the future.
"Can’t we do this? The manufacturers provide the cars themselves but we aren’t going to pay them because they get massive worldwide publicity. It would be a super Formula E, if you like.
"You can make cars be like an F1 car and the only thing you would miss would be the noise and I do not believe that people could not come up with something to make more or less the old F1 noise. They [Liberty] would need to have the balls to do it today. I think they will have to do it," he stated.
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no,No, NO!!
dear gods no.. Just look at Formula E, it's terible, poor racing, less overtakes than F1 and they sound like they are racing hoovers.
NO!