THE ‘WEIRD’ BERLIN EXPERIMENT WITH WIDER RELEVANCE TO MOTORSPORT

If there’s one lesson that the motorsport industry can take from COVID-19, it’s that the need to adapt was always there, but the process has now been speeded up. Championships and manufacturers have been hit hard by the pandemic in different ways and had to come up with solutions quickly.

Being proactive in cancelling races was a good way for Formula E to avoid uncertainty for teams and event promoters, but it also created the problem of how to replace the lost events and finish the 2019-20 season. The solution of having six races in the same place was maybe a bit weird, but it was interesting at the same time. For the last Berlin race, where you would expect the