BEST EV RACER FORMULA EXTREME E

ELECTRIC MOTORSPORT HAS BEEN AN EXERCISE IN COGNITIVE DISSONANCE EVER SINCE FORMULA E REALLY STARTED RAMPING UP ITS PR EFFORT.

Motorsport is all about the competition, the challenge, ego-versusego to find out who’s best. It is also – and nobody likes to admit this – fascinating because those egos often lead to crashes. Big, bits-flying-everywhere pile-ups that do interesting things with the physics of speed. And all of these things, Formula E does with gusto. Except that motorsport is also about an innately visceral thrill for the spectators; the smell of vaporised hydrocarbons at live events, the noise, the very real chance that these highly tuned engines might explode and do exciting things with fire. You can’t remove the lungs and liver from an entity and expect it to function in the same way. Which is why there’s an