This required a huge amount of redesign and engineering, why didn't they design it to have an interchangeable battery? I know very little about the technical aspects of batteries and electric cars so maybe I'm underestimating the difficulty of designing interchangeable batteries for electric cars but it seems like electric race cars are a good place to develop the tech and would give them a better chance of competing with gas powered racing. In addition to that it seems like interchangeable batteries in consumer cars would solve a lot of the issues people have with electric cars.
Those batteries supply enough power that accidental closing of the circuit is… not good. Additionally, vibrations and the forces involved in racing at that speed, are likely to loosen a removable battery.
Personally, it’d be interesting if they added distance as a scoring influence, and only getting x amount of charge. Maybe by using some form of time / laps, adjusting so it’s not a snooze fest.