Recent content by Shinkaze

You can actually design around the weight. Since the GT-R was mentioned earlier, it's worth pointing out that it is actually a very heavy car for the lap times it generates. That is because the GT-R was actually designed with a weight and foot print FIRST then everything else came later. The...

Drifting aside, racing is the opposite of what you just said. It is a crucible for finding new efficiencies. Energy wasted is cargo wasted. When you tune a motor for performance you inherently improve it's efficiency with ruthless abandon. In fact I would strongly argue that EV development...