“That’s why we’re running Supercars as well in their own class. But that in itself should help convince fans of the future, says Pankow. They will be sticking around for as long as it’s deemed viable. “If we’re going to change the world and have a real impact with regards to global warming and other environmental concerns, you have to give the other 95% a vehicle that they want to drive, and that’s the idea behind what we’re trying to do here.”īefore the Supercar devotees head for the exit door though, fear not. I feel like that audience has been addressed, perhaps even over-addressed.
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“What you see happening now with electric series is, they’ve really addressed that 5% of the audience that care deeply about the environment and going to be first adopters and there’s an electric vehicle, even if it doesn’t have great range, they’re going to get it, and that’s really a part of who they are. It’s the Nitro solution, we chose the fastest car and if we show that it’s the right solution, it’ll change perceptions. “But it’s not just an all-in greenwashing scenario. “We want to think if we do this right we can have a much larger impact than some of the other series with actually changing prior perceptions. “From the get-go – and this is from Travis to me – we don’t want to greenwash this series,” Pankow says. That doesn’t mean it won’t have a wider positive impact too.
The dreaded ‘E word’ is all-too-often followed by accusations of pandering to the green lobby, or ‘greenwashing’, but Nitro’s decision to go down the electric route was rooted in having the most powerful, and efficient vehicle possible. Electric is very suitable for rallycross because short heats, you have enough time between heats to recharge time, we ended up going with a battery that you can do several heats on so you can always keep it in prime operating range.” “Electric looked like a really interesting pathway to go. “And then in addition to that, the world’s marching towards electric and we didn’t really want to go electric just for the sake of going electric. “Number one was a desire to reimagine the sport a bit and have tracks with bigger jumps and more things happening, and we really have gotten to the point where that’s surpassed current supercars a bit, from suspension travel standpoint in particular. “It was the culmination of two things, really,” Pankow says of the car’s development process. That meant coming up with a car that could not only handle Nitro RX’s dramatic courses, but the next evolution of them, all while outdoing any comparable machine that came before it. The new car was the result of a two-and-a-half-year study to build the “fastest and most capable rallycross car in the world, however that could be done,” Nitro Rallycross general manager Chip Pankow tells DirtFish. The car will debut at this weekend’s Race of Champions before going on to race in Nitro Rallycross’ new headline ‘Group E’ class. It’s called the FC1-X, and it’s the quickest, most powerful rallycross car ever built. Electric – it’s a word that makes some rallycross fans quiver with fear, but in 2022 there just might be a car that changes those firmly held beliefs.
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