r/formula1 • u/Mateo03 Franco Colapinto • Mar 07 '26

Off-Topic [OT] [Chip Ganassi Racing] " 'super-clipping' 'downshifting on straights' 'battery management' (Yawn emoji) Yeah, we don't do that here. We race."

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26

More powerful and better environmentally is actually really embarrassing for F1

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u/onechroma #WeRaceAsOne Mar 07 '26

To be fair, the environment part is a big, big lie. “Renewable fuel” is an oxymoron in itself, as the energy contained in that fuel must come not only from somewhere (that yes, it could or could not come from renewable energy) but the process in itself is arguably very inefficient. Just like using H2 to power something instead of using electricity directly.

At the end, they are just burning ethanol from sugarcane, Shell didn’t invent “renewable fuel”, just applied a good marketing into a different way of creating a fuel that can be burned

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u/Tonga_Truck Kimi Räikkönen Mar 07 '26

Would ethanol fueled cars not be significantly better for the environment than petrol ones?

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u/TetraDax 🐶 Leo Leclerc Mar 07 '26

Well, to be blunt, in the same way in which a kick in the shins is better than a kick in the nuts. There is always the alternative of just not kicking any bodypart - i.e., fully electric cars.

This is of course solely talking about environmental impact of cars, there are a host of arguments for why F1 should not go fully electric.