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"In addition, spectators will be able to interact with the cars using social media. The talk is of allowing them to award drivers extra goes on their “push-to-p

"In addition, spectators will be able to interact with the cars using social media. The talk is of allowing them to award drivers extra goes on their “push-to-pass” boost buttons" Well, that sounds wide open for abuse. Also, I am not sure how the bookies would deal with something like that when calculating the odds. "Well, this driver is better, but the other one has a huge following on twitter, so the odds are in their favour..."

k-mcgrady 13y ago
"In addition, spectators will be able to interact with the cars using social media. The talk is of allowing them to award drivers extra goes on their “push-to-pass” boost buttons" That's the most stupid thing I've heard all week. No matter how it's implemented it's silly. Fans shouldn't be able to influence the result of a race.
- lessnonymous 13y ago
  Oh God .. what a dumb idea. Until I got to that bit it sounded great. Whether it's FIA or someone else, if it can get a following then the innovation the teams will develop will be massive for electric cars. And that it IS FIA that's organising it, it's got a good chance of being at least very interesting. But if you're going to let the audience VOTE on the outcome I might as well go watching survivor. Maybe they'll let us vote asshole drivers off the island?
  - moocowduckquack 13y ago
    Ideas this mindbogglingly stupid are a good reminder that the FIA, like many other wealthy pursuits, would appear to be mainly fuelled by a high octane mixture of alcohol and cocaine. I cannot see otherwise how something so dumb would have made it past a single meeting.
- walshemj 13y ago
  Yeh can you imagine Monza run under this harebrained idea remember the Martin Brundel quote " its monza if your not Italian or driving for Ferrari they tend to throw things
- thekid314 13y ago
  It is a stupid idea from a gamesmanship point of view. But it is a brilliantly viral idea from the marketing point of view. Think of that Saturday afternoon when you have a few posts popping up on facebook and twitter "Your friend is supporting ____...", it is sure to get a bump in non-hard-core fans watching the race. Racing is one of the few places they can do this.
kenshiro_o 13y ago
It's way too open to hacking and anyway it's a racing sports not a popularity contest so I think the FIA would make a HUGE mistake in getting the crowd to determine (or influence) the outcome of the race.
alan_cx 13y ago
From a proper pure racing POV, a horrible nasty idea, born of Satan's rectum. Putting aside the technical / abuse angle, which is totally valid.......From a getting fan interaction and publicity idea, its not a totally bad idea. Its a bit "reality". Now, if there is a god, he knows full well I cant stand all this "reality" and social media lark, but frankly, it is popular. FE needs to hook in to something as it needs to build a following. Its never going to appeal to the olde skool big engine and noise brigade who cant get their heads round electric at all, so it needs to get new fans interested. IMHO, that means going all youth and modern. So, things like this are a reasonable idea. Problem I see is that this specific idea is possibly born of gray suited men in a meeting not really understanding either racing or social media. I understand the general intent, but not the currently touted solution.

k-mcgrady 13y ago

"In addition, spectators will be able to interact with the cars using social media. The talk is of allowing them to award drivers extra goes on their “push-to-pass” boost buttons" That's the most stupid thing I've heard all week. No matter how it's implemented it's silly. Fans shouldn't be able to influence the result of a race.

lessnonymous 13y ago
Oh God .. what a dumb idea. Until I got to that bit it sounded great. Whether it's FIA or someone else, if it can get a following then the innovation the teams will develop will be massive for electric cars. And that it IS FIA that's organising it, it's got a good chance of being at least very interesting. But if you're going to let the audience VOTE on the outcome I might as well go watching survivor. Maybe they'll let us vote asshole drivers off the island?
- moocowduckquack 13y ago
  Ideas this mindbogglingly stupid are a good reminder that the FIA, like many other wealthy pursuits, would appear to be mainly fuelled by a high octane mixture of alcohol and cocaine. I cannot see otherwise how something so dumb would have made it past a single meeting.
walshemj 13y ago
Yeh can you imagine Monza run under this harebrained idea remember the Martin Brundel quote " its monza if your not Italian or driving for Ferrari they tend to throw things
thekid314 13y ago
It is a stupid idea from a gamesmanship point of view. But it is a brilliantly viral idea from the marketing point of view. Think of that Saturday afternoon when you have a few posts popping up on facebook and twitter "Your friend is supporting ____...", it is sure to get a bump in non-hard-core fans watching the race. Racing is one of the few places they can do this.

kenshiro_o 13y ago

It's way too open to hacking and anyway it's a racing sports not a popularity contest so I think the FIA would make a HUGE mistake in getting the crowd to determine (or influence) the outcome of the race.

alan_cx 13y ago

From a proper pure racing POV, a horrible nasty idea, born of Satan's rectum. Putting aside the technical / abuse angle, which is totally valid.......From a getting fan interaction and publicity idea, its not a totally bad idea. Its a bit "reality". Now, if there is a god, he knows full well I cant stand all this "reality" and social media lark, but frankly, it is popular. FE needs to hook in to something as it needs to build a following. Its never going to appeal to the olde skool big engine and noise brigade who cant get their heads round electric at all, so it needs to get new fans interested. IMHO, that means going all youth and modern. So, things like this are a reasonable idea. Problem I see is that this specific idea is possibly born of gray suited men in a meeting not really understanding either racing or social media. I understand the general intent, but not the currently touted solution.