Time comparisons miss the point

FIA president Jean Todt led the push for Formula E to use its own version of the full Monaco circuit to avoid lap-time comparisons with Formula 1 and, by extension, its support series. But late track changes put paid to that wish, with only a tightening of the Nouvelle Chicane to notably separate the two layouts. That seemingly left the all-electric heavyweights ready to be exposed to nascent mockery.

However, before a wheel had turned in the principality last weekend, those criticisms could