{"id":281,"date":"2020-03-09T00:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=281"},"modified":"2015-05-16T00:40:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T00:40:14","slug":"green-motor-racing-is-coming-what-are-your-thoughts-obp-tech-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insurecar.us\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Green Motor Racing Is Coming &#8211; What Are Your Thoughts? &#8211; Obp Tech Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure you have heard about the massive drive the World super powers and Governments have been instigating over the last 5 to 10 years regarding world pollution.<\/p>\n<p>One area that has had a high level of input and World media coverage is the motor car industries.<\/p>\n<p>We are now seeing many production cars that are hybrid and electric powered. <\/p>\n<p>As normal the research and development for these type of cars are coming from race car design teams.<\/p>\n<p>What is very exciting is a new race series that has just been launched this year. <\/p>\n<p>The EV (Electric Vehicle) Cup is Zero emission electric car series.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1st &#8216;GREEN&#8217; motor racing series and has some major plans to develop this into a World wide race series.<\/p>\n<p>The EV Cup team has been working with vehicle manufactures to offer a wide range of electric cars that will be racing on the top race tracks all over Europe.<\/p>\n<p>There will be three racing sectors to race in:<\/p>\n<p>CITY EV<\/p>\n<p>This class is limited to city focused, production vehicles that can be seen in use today. Consisting of single-make races, the CityEV class will feature THINK City vehicles that have been prepared to a race specification. In addition to the modified and lightened interior and exterior changes, the vehicle will be running on the latest THINK prepared motor and battery technologies.<\/p>\n<p>SPORTS EV<\/p>\n<p>This class is reserved for race drivers of all abilities experienced in open cockpit race competitions. Based on a bespoke race car developed for the EV Cup race series by Westfield Sportscars, the iRACER is a pure race bred vehicle made for sprint racing. Equipped with a boost button allowing for a surge of energy when executing overtaking maneuvers, race strategy will play a key role towards victory on the track.<\/p>\n<p>PROTOTYPE EV<\/p>\n<p>The PrototypeEV class follows a time-trial format allowing for the demonstration of the latest non-production electric vehicles to set competitive lap-times on the most challenging circuits. With little design limitations and no weight or power limits, this class offers an exciting showcase for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The EV Cup will be holding some promotional events in the UK at four of the top race circuits in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a great opportunity to see for your self what Electric Car racing will be like. I am really looking forward to the experience. <\/p>\n<p>UK 2011 PROVISIONAL RACE CALENDAR<\/p>\n<p>UK Silverstone 6th August <\/p>\n<p>UK Snetterton 20th August <\/p>\n<p>UK Rockingham 10th September<\/p>\n<p>UK Brands Hatch 6th November<\/p>\n<p>I am sure this has been of interest to you.<\/p>\n<p>Please give any feed back on your thoughts regarding GREEN MOTOR RACING.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your time.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello. I am sure you have heard about the massive drive the World super powers and Governments have been instigating over the last 5 to 10 years regarding world pollution. One area that has had a high level of input and World media coverage is the motor car industries. We are now seeing many production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurecar.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurecar.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurecar.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurecar.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurecar.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurecar.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurecar.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurecar.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurecar.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}