One thing you didn't mention was energy management. The cars don't have a battery big enough to run the entire race and must recover about 40% through regenerative breaking. This means that you have to balance going fast enough to win, while braking and coasting heavily enough to have the energy needed to get to the end of the race, all the while dealing with the other drivers who also trying to figure out the same

FE feels much more approachable to watch than most motorsports, which I think is for a mix of reasons. Of course there's the variety in winners, but the sprint race duration, the very obvious strategy component, and the fact that they put out the full races on their website after the fact, all of which makes it more approachable to a casual viewer.

Gotta say, FE has evolved into a fun series to watch. The cars look quick, and the drivers are super aggressive. If you like watching scrappy, wheel-to-wheel action, this is the series for you.

Last week's SP e-Prix was crazy, overtakes (yes, plural) on the last corner and carnage all the time. Not all races are that good, but usually they delivery pretty well!

It's good that the electric powered world championship is hard in different ways than the gasoline powered world championship. The variety in racing formats and styles means people with different tastes can watch a flavor of motorsport that showcases drivers and machines that are the best for that particular discipline.

I'd love to hear a current top F1 driver like Verstappen take some time in a Formula E car and give his thoughts

I definitely appreciate the actual racing in FE, especially Monaco a few years ago was WILD, not to mention the half-indoors London circuit. I also really like that everything's so quiet, you can go to a race and actually hear yourself think. That said, no, they're not as fast or as much a pinnacle of technology as F1. But it's a tradeoff, and I love them both. So.... D1GP next?

0:56 I kinda hope Max somehow manages to win all 24 races this season because #1 that would be incredibly impressive and a record that would most likely stand forever and #2 because that might finally put pressure on the rule makers to make some radical changes to prevent such domination to occur again.

People forget that Extreme E exists which is a much better use of electric powered racing and much more fun to watch! Basically electric rallying/dakar.

A year ago i got an opportunity to join a pre-qualifying round for jakarta e-prix esports event. And i can confirm the car is very hard and a bit fun to drive. The best i can describe is a way more slippery radical sp3 with very instant torque. Even though i didn't qualify (0.8 sec off), i can keep the car for free 😂

Formula E has a peloton effect where you don't really want to be in clear air because it uses more energy. I really like the added strategy that creates. Some people hate it because it's not "pure" racing, but F1 has DRS so...

Yes, more Fe coverage. We love to see it

We need to take into account costs... a Formula E season is around 12mill, thats like 5% of what F1 cost. Of course they will try to save the cars as much as possible.

Another great video Scott! Always very factual and informative while still entertaining 👏👏

Both are hard in different ways. I don't think really any one series is harder than the other. However, FE is challenging and it's good to have a video that tries to get that across to a casual viewer. Anybody that has rFactor2 should get the gen 3 car to see for themselves (or VRC formula lithium for Assetto Corsa). Its quick to see how hard the series is. F1 car has so much grip its easy to get to a respectable level with it (hard to get on the limit though). Gen 3 FE car on the other hand takes a lot of time to get used too the low grip and high torque.

Interesting video! Thank you. I have to say as a spectator, I don't enjoy watching races on those fenced street circuits. They kinda look all the same and very boring. I only watch street circuit races when I'm bored to death and have absolutely nothing else to do. But when there are races on tracks like Nordschleife, Red Bull Ring, Spa the whole scenery is so amazing that it adds a lot to the enjoyment factor of that race.

Both are very difficult and different from each other. The G forces would be much lower in a formula E car compared to formula 1, due to the cars being lighter and because they have a lot less downforce. The Formula E cars are more affected by wind and other drivers on the track.

Great job at the off-road games Scott.

Last season of Formula E was not great but it looks like the gen 3 cars have been improved this season. The racing is much better than F1 but I don’t think the racing is really F1’s main attraction.

I like this comparison video, and agree with the overall conclusions. I’ve never driven F1 or FE, but have driven many other gas cars including F2000, and for the past 10 years was driving EVSR electric race cars, and I love how much quieter the EV drivetrain is, I can hear the tires so much better and get more cornering performance by hearing when grip starts to go away.

Was pretty cool to hear the balance between the two makes. Everything has major variables that play into this. F1 is just full out nuts and fuel is easy to work with right now. Electric still has the weight and charging or battery swap issues but at least the electric car weight is always the same. Id like to hear if the weight of the F1 car effects driving as the fuel weight is removed or sloshing. Either way cool video, thanks for making it.

Glad to have you in Diriyah - I actually like the track and have driven their quite a few times during track days and done some less than legal laps when no one is watching lol. It made me enjoy watching Formula E.

great video, but when will you make a video about pro drifting especially about dmec (drift masters european championship) such a good competition and imo the most exciting motorsport to watch. just look at some highlights of drift masters round 6 and you will get why i say that, just insane.

I learned so much about Formula E today. Thanks 🏎️

Portland is my home track, so I know lots of stats about it. The Formula E cars best lap times from last year's race would get them passed in some SCCA classes.

Great video Scott, FE for me is exactly what I like about racing :)

You should do the video about IndyCar which we all know is a better "racing" series but a comparisson would be a great video.

Excellent insights.

This is a fantastic watch

Can we all agree that Verstappens dominance is actually bad for F1. Hamilton era wasnt this bad for competition. Max needs to move to another team or they need to make some radical regulations in 2026 to level the field

7:13 well that was a cool drift

This video made me appreciate more formula e, good video

Nyck de Vries begs to differ 👀

FE is so much more interesting to watch than F1, especially with the energy management aspects of the race

I went to Formula E race in Portland last year, it was my first interaction with the series. As an Indycar fan I was really interested in the lap time comparison between the two categories. I figured they would be somewhat comparable however, the FE car was 12 seconds slower. it was also slower than a Indy NXT Car, GT3 car, and Trans Am car from 1984. For a series that bills itself as the Premier Electric racing series I expected something Faster Minimum 1:03.

Good informative video, thank you! Could a Formula e have a slightly bigger window of operation?

Could you do a detailed video on that Alonso v Russell incident. I'm sure you could explain it in better technical details. Why it wasn't a brake check, and how a harversting Alonso lifted and downshifted, effected a speeding Russell, and why he lost control! Was it Alonso's fault or should have Russell reacted better? Even so was it normal for a car to lose so much control the way it did?

I’m thinking about getting into watching a secondary racing series other than F1. I’m thinking about either F2, Formula E, or Indycar. I do live in Indiana and have been to a lot of races as a kid, but I’m not sure how interesting it is. Any thoughts on the most interesting other series?

I really don't like limiting the power, especially in formula E. They should make the race short enough so drivers could just give it the beans instead of having to lift and coast so much. I know F1 does that aswell, and that shouldn't be so imho.

Many thanks!

I have a subscription to IndyCar and F1. I watch F1 for 44years now. (Yes it was mandatory when i was little bday or not.😂) Both have their plusses. F1, by far has the best 'tv'. I mean that the images are all very sleek, very good camera angles, and no commentators that are promoting tampons or whatever sponsor payed them.. For me however the big issue with F1 is the giant discrepancy between commentators calling drivers 'gladiators' and the reality in which they are just performers. Danger is not a factor. Sure a driver could die, but it is more likely that i would die falling of my own stairs. Then there is the bulletproof reliability, which sucks balls. In the old days one really had to first make sure he finished, to finish first. Even if Mansell had lapped the entire field, his engine could conk out in final corner, they could run out of fuel... so many things could, and often would, go wrong because the cars were literally performing at the absolute limit . There is no tension-mount anymore. It's just boring AF.

the thing that really turns me off of formula E is the race structure. it's designed more as a video game than a race, with boost zones and fans voting to give energy and weird shit like that. honestly it just feels very gimmic-y and ruins it for me. if they made the race simply be a race without all that shit then maybe then i'd give it another look.

8:08 this footage blends in so well, nobody probably noticed it’s Assetto Corsa

I got all the comments you mentioned, and for me would be good to know your opinion on the Nyck DeVries who was a Formula E champion but a lot of issues in F1

I was wondering how much force feedback on a direct drive rig is realistic to real life f1, lmh and gt3 car, do we cranked it to 100% or its not comparable?

Not even a minute into the video, I love your choice of drivers we don’t want to see ❤

Lol @ the message on the hoop: Let's be careful about which barriers we try to break, those walls don't look like they have much give 😳

Man, this video went through more thumbnails than a paddock going through tires on a race week.

How awesome would it be to have a street legal two seater akin to these formula E cars?

Hey Scott, did you ever drive a rally car? If yes how would a similar comparison between Rally and Formula series look like? Maybe in a future video ;)?

F1 cars have semi-automatic sequential gearboxes. No gearshifting is required at all in FE cars as they have automatic transmission.

To me, Attack Mode, battery management and the more narrow and sharper circuits + less predictable winners make FE more interesting to watch than F1, but i still like both, maybe F1 more because i've been watching it since the 2014 season, stopping at around mid 2017 and only catching up to it in 2021 (it took that long). That feels like forever Just to say it, as i'm currently more oblivious to the situation in FE, my favorite teams and drivers are Formula 1: Lewis Hamilton and Minar- i mean, Alpha- I MEAN, Racing Bulls Formula E: Félix Da Costa and Porsche. More homogenized

It sounds like you would really enjoy the C2V snow racing where car control is at a premium.

When are you putting up your Offroad Games video?

instant torque in formula e vs not so instant torque in f1

I wish there was a way of separating drivers from manufacturers - like if each driver had to race each car - one per race. So Max would end up racing with each manufacturer's cars at least once through the season. That way you could split up the manufacturer's competition from the driver's competition, and hopefully have a clearer picture by the end of the season - who actually is the best.

The headline states "...Formula E is Harder Than Formula 1". In the video you asked the question, is Formula E more difficult to drive than Formula 1? Your answer was "In short, no." So... which is it?

11:56 lol it says breaking barriers just after you mentioned a shunt

is the music at 7:39 jort storm by charlie slimecicle??

Honestly my feeling for a while has been that F1 cars now have way too much grip relative the amount of power they have, it makes advantages in the car much more apparent. Not that driver skill doesn;t matter in F1, but i tend to feel F1 intentionally or otherwise emphasises the car too much.

cool video! ADR is kinda weird though

Nobody wants to lead, because of battery manegement. There are so many overtakings, because drivers are forced to take a longer route twice a race to get extra power. So they get overtaken when they drive the long way and then regain their position because of the extra power or the driver in front takes the long road. That doesn't make it more exciting, it makes it random and stupid, especially, when there is a yello flag. Formula E is not racing, it's energy manegement. BTW i love the Caterham footage, i will never forget stigs lap with the 500.

With regards to run off on tracks, my idea would be to keep the tarmac run off, but have a gravel gutter on the edge of the track

Why did you change the thumbnail from earlier with the split top down view?

You liked the car. I'm not much of a fan of street circuits....with the exception of Monaco. You can get the same things done on a racetrack. You can get some gravel instead of asphalt for the runoff. You will also have more safety.

One thing I didn't hear about was the difference in steering wheels and the multitude of settings that can be made corner to corner. I imagine that an experienced F1 driver is making far more adjustments then a rookie and more than a Formula E driver has options to in a Formula E car, which would make driving a F1 car far more difficult. I would love to hear more about that, how much difference it makes and what the different adjustments are made by drivers corner to corner.

"Breaking Barriers" seems like a really questionable slogan for a fast car driving close to walls.

I worked as hospitality staff in the Ricciardo suites at this past GP in Melbourne and was very happy to see Verstappen and Hamilton DNF and Sainz win it fairly comfortably. Viva España 🇪🇸

I've been thinking about rules and going Green. Then I think of Can-Am and Group B. Then Fangio. Then I question the introduction of aero/downforce. - where any drivers against it?

I wonder if the small circuit and chaos of FE help the driver when they race in WEC especially through traffic

Bruh he literally has #ad in the Description of the video, so that is why he is talking so positive about it…

2:17 it was genuinely impossible to tell on the Street Circuit chart whether the red-and-white flag is Monaco or Indonesia, both countries have held Formula E races and their flag look the same 😮

Not to mention The tracks in the formula E is much slimmer, smaller and more narrower making it difficult to try to get ahead the rest of the other drivers aswell

i'd really like to watch more FE but i just don't know who to watch or where to start... could yall give pointers for a newbie to get into it?

How is the difficulty level if you throw in the WEC Hyper cars?

Its like Di Grassi said once (or was it JEV) F E is simple to pick up but very hard to master

All of us have suffered through the era of hero-F1. When will it end?

Interesting video. I wonder why they don't just run Formula E on the same race weekend as F1. I think it would be a good support race for F1 and it also would bring forward the focus of Formula E development to be as close as possible to the future of F1 in going sustainable.

I'll be honest, main reason I don't watch Formula E IS the fact most of the tracks are street circuits. I just don't like 'em. Otherwise the racing does seem very interesting. I'll try to watch the ones on road courses this year.

can you talk more in depth on japan super formula, they are second fastest vehicles in the world next to F1 on road course and seems to me like no body knows them

You picked the worst corners for the "it's not about safety" argument. Might as well have included Tamburello of Imola

A balanced distribution of winners is not the goal. There are already many racing series that show that. The engineering behind the cars... nobody cares about because they are all the same. Formula E's mistake is homogonizong the cars. It would be a perfect platform for a competition between tire, suspension, energy conservation, and aerodynamics. Give everyone the same battery to work with. It would be like the old can am series with a fixed gas tank size.

FE is doing the right approach. Gen 3 car is smaller than Gen 2 (which was smaller than Gen 1) and has less downforce and more power. F1 should at least follow a similar route. 2026 cars will be smaller, but this isn't not enough.

Have you raced against Jan Magnussen

Need that bourbon glazed carrot recipe

I love the sound of a screaming NA engine behind my head. Nothing can replace or replicate that. It is more fun to drive a slow cat fast than to drive a fast car slow.

I agree that a street circuit presents challenges that don't exist (to the same degree) on road courses. Bu that's also the thing of it for me - I don't like street circuits. To me, street circuits just seem to be a "next best alternative" when you don't have a proper road course available. For me, racing is about driving the road and race craft ... not about avoiding walls. It's just generally worse from both a spectator perspective and a driver perspective for me. But then I'm used to spectating and driving some pretty excellent road courses. And I agree that modern top tier racing has pretty sterile and, for me uninteresting. It's also become quite gimmicky to manufacture "passing" and other preferred outcomes. Anymore, I almost prefer club level racing over modern pro racing. I'd rather see just a few well earned passes earned by racecraft as opposed to a lot of manufactured "passing" at the push of a button for the sake manufacturing passes. And this notion of trying to manufacturing competition by hobbling winners. If you're faster because you're better and have things figured out, you should be allowed to be faster. You shouldn't be artificially hobbled just to manufacture "competition".

Shows FE racing on an abandoned concrete airport: "They drive on real street circuits"

I've always loved F1 but the way the championship was given to RB then rules made for Newey has really hurt the sport. I've missed a race already this season and wasnt bothered tbh,

street curcuits are just ass imo. for drivers and spectators. you cant even see far

Simply put the drivers more scared of hurting the car in practice by hitting a wall and they are of hurting theirselves

what happened to overdrive? I love that channel and miss the car videos

This video really change my mind about formula E, i really need to also watch it

I used to enjoy watching Formula E but now it's gone behind a paywall I can't justify another subscription grrrr. Such a shame.

Well as a beer league sim racer I can second the hypothesis having raced and crashed in both. F1 cars are the sweetest cars to drive, which is why they are the pinnacle. In real life though, those wheels require a very sharp mind to race with.

Group stages are worse, like u mix ppl up, imagine beeing in a group with max lando lewis and fernando rather than with lance logan and valterie

NASCAR had 15 different winners in 36 races last year, if we exclude superspeedways(many fans see as random) that’s 13 in 30. Now let’s exclude drivers who only won on road courses 10 at 24 races. When compared in this metric clearly nascar has the most competitive field of the Motorsports presented

I totally forgot Formula E was a thing lol

12:03 '"to stop a shunt" what is that ? I don't know what that mean.

I love everything about internal combustion engines. I love speed more than anything. If electric can go faster then gas, lets go.