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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel debate Balance of Performance – is this one controversial regulation ruining motor racing? They also discuss affordable sports cars, two new EV performance cars and Adrian Newey's 200th Formula 1 Grand Prix victory as a designer.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast. |
0:06.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to episode 166 of the Intercooler Podcast with me Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel. |
0:12.0 | Now occasionally we do kind of magazine... Me Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel. |
0:12.6 | Now occasionally we do kind of magazine style episodes |
0:16.3 | where we cover a few different topics. |
0:17.5 | That's what this week's episode is. |
0:19.6 | We start off by discussing balance of performance and whether or not it's a good thing in |
0:25.2 | racing because I'm kind of in two minds about it particularly after the other |
0:30.7 | weeks 24 hours of Lamont which was very much influenced by balance of performance. |
0:35.0 | But we also talk about road cars like the BMW I-8 in what goes up, which is where we look at what's going on in the market. |
0:43.4 | And we're doing the I-8 this week because you can now buy one. |
0:47.2 | Certainly there's one example in the UK of the I-8 listed for less than |
0:51.3 | 30,000 pounds, |
0:53.0 | which, well, I mean that is a lot of car for 30 grand, |
0:57.5 | although quite a lot of miles as well. |
1:00.0 | We'll come to that. |
1:01.0 | And there's a few other bits that we discuss this week. Before we get into it though, I will |
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1:21.6 | Now what we don't need to do Andrew is really get into the nitty gritty of what happened at Le Mon because it's been done and we're probably a week too late to do that aren't we? But I'd like to have a conversation, a broader conversation about balance of performance because it's been in the news recently hasn't it and I think both you and I have expressed frustrations with it in the past? |
1:44.0 | Definitely, definitely. |
1:47.0 | I mean, it's there to ensure close racing. It all depends how you approach it because on the one hand there is a very large |
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