Quimera project is a bluff project during most than one year. Designed by Altran and another non-specialist, to take public money from government and private investors to produce an unnecesary and non-innovative vehicle. Also they haven´t prove their model is functional. On the other step Lola Drayson Vehicle is really innovative (New Materials and Chemistry) and necessary on future of motorsport. Quimera is a waste of public money.

I remember that when I was a kid my dad use to build slot cars for competitive racing. Every sunday we would go downtown to a commercial track and race. Believe me, not having all that noise did not make it a dull experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHbXxV1PKic

Kelly,
I don't think battery swap is good because it lets them off the hook for progressing battery tech faster.

They can get enough range to run 25 minute sprint races right now, even 2 or 3 of them the way some other series do today with their ICE racers.

They could increase the distance by 15% every year and by 2020 they would be doing about the same length of races as their ICE counterparts.

I'm for pushing battery tech to help improve the breed for consumers. I don't think battery swapping is going to work except in fleet vehicles so I'm not as excited about using that in racing.

How about full-scale Slot cars?

Good test beds for new batteries.

Im for that but they should only recharge with solar panels and do battery swapping for a free-fuel , non-polluting complete race events. Go to that race event and insist that they recharge with solar instead of coal or nat-gas electricity. If they say something weird then say it's me that say that. I won't buy a bev, race or commuter, if i cannot recharge with solar panels or windmills. Bevs are as much important as solar power. Also insist that your plugged bev can accumulate solar power during the day and reverse the current at night to power the house so you won't need dirty coal electricity. Technologically there is no need actually in california for conventionnal dirty source of electricity. Just sell solar panels connected to buffer electricity in bev. Also do some hydrogen too with excess solar power to power fuelcell cars and suvs and the hydrogen will be burned in central electrical power=plants at night for free fuel non-polluting whatsoever.

baldwincng,

I'm not sure how to interpret your comments.

Are they genuine and you're saying this is a good thing because coal and NG are American sourced fuels? Or are you being sarcastic and saying this is bad because coal and NG are fossil fuels and therefore this is bad because they pollute?

Kelly,

Agreed! That Quimera AEGT is pure sexy! I think the guys over at Gas2.org described the Drayson/Lola LMP1 type car the best: War Machine :-)

You could have good race days with several shorter races rather than one longer one. Gives you chance to run several different classes of vehicles too.

Yes, I like the format of 2-3 sprint races. I like the format they do in GP2 as they lead up to the F1 races. One medium length race followed by a sprint race where they reverse the starting order in some way for the second race.
Gives you a chance to see which cars qualify well and get more points in the first race, then see which drivers can actually navigate traffic in the sprint race as they start from the back for slightly less total points.

Loren Dalain
Although we think is a total waste of time trying to correct someone acting is such bad faith as you do, we have to explain to the rest of the serious and well informed persons in this post about the incredible lies and silly affirmations in your post.
Obviously, you know not even one single correct word about Quimera. Quimera has been since inception funded by private capital. Not even one single euro or dollar of public money has been entered into the capital of the company nor has it received one single subsidy.
Second, the car we have already presented publicly is an up-and-running car. If you were an average person we'll be delighted to invite you to test drive it. As it seems this is not the case, we have handled it to some pretty decent pro-drivers like Jordi Gené, Borja Veiga, Pepe Oriola or Michael Nikjaer to name a few.
And we don't consider you're an average person because your bad faith can only be such due to very few reasons: somehow you feel yourself jeopardized for what we have already been able to achieve, because of the strength of our partners, because our capacity to ACT not just speak or because we are not in the lets-show-some-renders/show cars business ourselves.
We challenge you to find one single car out there with the same capacities we have ALREADY PROVED in ours: 170mph, 12minutes range (with half battery pack) in the existing limited revving config we are using now during the shakedown (sure you don't know what shakedown in racing means, this is the process in which REAL race cars enter to improve and fine tune their capacities BEFORE racing them).
600.000 viewers have seen our videos through direct links and other channels since August 2011.
If you were really interested in knowing about the company just google it and you'll get several thousands of results. No big deal.
Now, why are you posting such incredibly unfounded lies? Why would anyone act in such bad faith? Just for the shake of it? Don't think so. Because someone is in the desperate need to grab 15 secs of supposed "glory"? Might be the case. Honestly, we don't know the reasons behing such an awful behaviour but it's a total shame.
And Paul Drayson happens to be a good friend of ours. And we know his project pretty well since inception. You are evidencing, again, that you don't know one single word about Lola-Drayson's project either.
As said, a totally shameful post.
For the rest of the persons, even for those with a well founded critical or skeptical approach to our project or to non fossil fuel based racing, our most sincere thanks. All kind of inputs are valuable when well founded and intelligently evidenced and we very much appreciate and welcome them.
Quimera_team