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The world's quietest motorsport series is coming in 2017.
The recently announced Electric GT Championship will kick off next year. The full line-up of drivers for the inaugural racing series are to be revealed at the Autosport International racing motor show at the start of January.
There will be a total of 20 drivers across 10 teams that compete, with the aim to have three teams each from Europe and North American and two each from Asia and the rest of the World.
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All teams will race identical identical modified Tesla Model S P85+ race cars.
The Series will visit seven European tracks including the Nurburgring and Barcelona. It will also hold three non-championship races in the Americas.
The Electric GT Championship joins a growing motorsport trend of electric race series, including the Formula-E Series, which are helping to develop the future of zero-emissions motoring.
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People go to races to feel (vibrations) and hear the cars. This will be as interesting as paint drying, grass growing, nails rusting, and New Top Gear.
Says someone who has probably never driven an electric car.
... two tonnes of batteries on a racetrack with no corners?
BOOOOOORRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
I think I'll stick to my Scalextric set
They'll have to be two lap races, maybe just a single lap of the Nurburgring.
Apart from New Era the comments appear to be from people who think they should still be allowed to smoke on trains and/or climate change deniers. In 5 years the concept of motoring will have totally changed.
You're probably right Lindsay. Funny how the fear of new technology triggers irrational responses from the Luddites. I'm enjoying the slow death of the Internal Combustion Engine as car makers like Tesla show the world how inferior ICE technology is. The cartel has been broken! So peoples, keep playing your vinyl records and cassette tapes, your cars will be museum pieces sooner than you think, right next to the Nokia mobile phones and Kodak film cameras. EV technology is so much better in terms of performance, efficiency, and pure driving pleasure. They don't know what they are missing out on.