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k, it's time to wind down the whole we're-just-burning-fossil-fuels-for-fun stuff now.
i doubt the actual motorsports are the biggest carbon emissions of stuff like this
A lot of these racing applications are what drive innovations in power and efficiency in the rest of the automotive field since they're constantly improving engines to squeeze as much power out of them as they can. Banning this stuff will have little to no impact on pollution and just needlessly piss a bunch of people off, driving allies away from the cause.
It's like the whole plastic straw ban that achieved nothing and made a bunch of people look like fools. Meanwhile, giant corporations are packaging items in single-use plastic packaging and using 10,000x as much plastic with nary a peep from those politicians' grandstanding over straws. Furthermore, every paper straw I've ever gotten has been wrapped in a plastic bag.
Check out SailGP. It's got some flaws, but they did actually manage to design a sailboat race that goes fast enough to actually be interesting to watch in real-time.
flaws
I mean, i'm certainly ok with a fully electric motorboat
What do you do if you run out of electricity while out on the water? At least with an EV you can get out and walk but that's a different story on a boat.
Same what you do when your boat runs out of gasoline? Doesn't matter what powers your engine if you don't watch your tank or battery level you will have a problem.
Apart from that: This is about racing boats. They're never alone somewhere on the open sea.
"STOP HAVING FUN!!"
That time was like 30 years ago. Now we can either stop using them altogether and have a bad time, or we can keep using them and have a slightly more bad time.