‘Fast and Furious’ shift to electric cars presents obstacles

When the Saudis started to pour money into tennis, golf, wrestling and other “events,” it was done specifically to move away from oil, which people in the car business watch carefully, and nervously.

This includes anyone and everyone who makes a dollar in a business anchored around a combustible engine, which covers not just NASCAR, IndyCar or Formula One but Hollywood, too.

How does the start of the Indy 500 sound if the “roar” of 33 engines generate the noise of vacuum cleaner?

Does the Daytona 500 move you when Chase Elliott passes Denny Hamlin on the high side and no one can hear it?

It’s hard to make a cool “Fast and Furious” movie when all the cars drift, or jump the length of the Grand Canyon, in silence.

Leave it to a “family” member of the “Fast and Furious” film franchise to offer some reality to a debate that causes not drifts but rifts at Thanksgiving dinners.

“The government regulations the pushes (towards) electric are out of touch and ridiculous,” Cody Walker said in a recent phone interview.

Cody Walker is the younger brother of Paul Walker, the actor from the “F&F” franchise who died in 2013 in a car crash. Paul was a founding member of the series, and starred in six of the 11 films.

Cody has tried his hand at acting, and is a “car” guy. He and “F&F” star Tyrese Gibson will be appearing the upcoming “Fuel Fest” on April 20 at Texas Motor Speedway. They are semi-regulars at these nationwide events that are basically cool car shows.

These are the types of events, along with car races, that will be directly affected by the shift towards electric.

“There is a place for electric cars. Some of these new electric cars are wicked fast. They accel