The road ahead
We are amid a necessary revolution in the motorsport and automotive spheres. The requirement for high-efficiency powertrain to lower CO2 emissions means race series organisers and governments alike are pushing for equally efficient solutions to the task of moving a vehicle forward. Motorsport often talks about road relevance, and has had its place in changing, or at least popularising, certain areas in the showroom. Carbon fibre trim is an obvious example, paddle shift gear change another. Likewise, when the turbo F1 era got underway in the 1980s, we saw more turbo cars built for the road. Right now, though, ecology is a huge subject, so should motorsport play its part in that trend, too? Intersection In the contemporary era, the area of motorsport that has attracted the most attention from car manufacturers as a…