ROSBERG’S DUO BACK ON TOP AS BREAKAGES SPARK RAGE
A lejandro Agag is a cool customer; someone who finds time to answer difficult questions with composure and a smile. And for all the flak aimed at Extreme E and Formula E – the two disruptive electric championships he has co-founded – for their perceived popular vote gimmicks in‘grid play’ and‘fanboost’, he values meritocratic sporting success.
He is also a negotiator, and cares greatly about how his motorsport series appear on TV. Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button likely wouldn’t be fielding teams alongside Chip Ganassi in Extreme E if it wasn’t for the Spaniard’s central role and persuasion. And he wants his audience to enjoy the best possible show.
When competitive effort and talent go unrewarded and the spectacle is needlessly diminished, he has been known to let his calm demeanour slip. One such occasion arrived four months ago in Puebla, Mexico, when Porsche was disqualified from its maiden Formula E triumph after its tyres were incorrectly declared to no competitive advantage. Another, it is said, came last weekend in Sardinia when Mr Ganassi was on site to watch his Extreme E team lose its probable first triumph to
