Our four onboard kitchens allow our chefs. If this is the future of electric motorsport, sign us up. Immerse yourself in the Napa Valley Wine Trains onboard dining. Imagine beefed up British Touring Cars flying through the air with no regard for one another, and you’re about there. The actual racing in Nitro RX is absolutely wild. Yes, of course it would have been even more visceral had there been a thundering V8 in the back, but this is 2023 and anyway, progress. It's not a calm cabin by any stretch: whirs, gravel, the landing thuds and the sensation of flat out pace give the impression of an electric rollercoaster that’s gone postal, but neither does it feel like you're in Mad Max: Fury Road either. They just absorb all that energy and allow Bakkerud the chance to shoot forwards into the next jump… which lands straight into a raised, banked hairpin… which he then powerslides around. Like we mentioned earlier, the R53 shocks deployed on the FC1-X are otherworldly in their compression, soaking up huge, terrifying jumps with total ease and not a whisper of complaint. And because there’s no internal combustion bellowing out a heavy metal soundtrack, there’s space to contemplate what 3G and 100ft jumps feel like. The FC1-X fires off the line with such tremendous violence and spite you’re left gasping for breath 0-60mph in 1.4s is stomach- and back-troublingly fast. “Oh, it’ll probably be fine,” TG.com offered in response. Upon gingerly approaching the Glen Helen rallycross route’s start line accompanied only by an electromechanical whir as a backdrop, and strapped down tightly enough to become one with that carbon seat, thought it prudent to inform Bakkerud that ’s back was not presently in great shape. Please do not ask to explain the points system behind these heats. was treated to a special passenger ride on the eve of the Nitro RX final, driven by RX Cartel JC driver Andreas Bakkerud, himself coming off a win in the heats earlier that day. And a range of 13 miles at a speed and pace best described as So it’s fast then. This will become important in a moment.īrakes? Mighty Alcon four-piston units that under extreme forces offer charge back into the battery, hiding behind custom 19in one-piece Rotiform wheels. There are frankly brilliant ‘R53’ dampers that sit in each corner, featuring much adjustability and a whopping 30cm of travel. Not, as you might be thinking, with one on each wheel, but inside special housings hooked up to Sadev mechanical diffs on the front and rear axles. The max voltage is 870V, and the Newattek cells power four Magelec axial flux motors. Underneath the FC1-X’s huge bodyshell is a proper purpose-built spaceframe housing a 51kWh battery in the floor.
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