Just this weekend Formula E held the Monaco ePrix, using the same layout F1 uses.
As a comparison, the FE pole time was 1:29.839. Last year the F1 pole lap was 1:10.346.
As a comparison, the FE pole time was 1:29.839. Last year the F1 pole lap was 1:10.346.
https://formularegionaleubyalpine.com/corsa/monaco-2021/
(This is really Formula 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Formula_Regional_European... )
To back my statement: if you look at the race times for the last 20-25 years F1 cars didn't get any faster at completing a race. They got faster at completing a qualifying lap so we could say that current cars are built to run hot laps and have to enter into a slow mode to run a race. BTW that cost billions of cumulative engineering efforts. If somebody tells Dallara to build 20 copies of a Ferrari F1 car from 2004 (Ferrari won 15 out of 18 races that year) you'll have a v10 series much faster than any IndyCar or F2, only slightly slower than current F1 and it will cost a fraction because of the reasons for IndyCar costs a fraction of F1.