How Formula E made it to 100 races when most people thought it wouldn't even last one
dailystar.co.ukRead more: Formula E London to become Monaco of electric racing - and even have yacht harbourFormula E’s co-founders, Alejandro Agag and Alberto Longo, first thought of the idea of an electric racing series on the back if a napkin in a restaurant.
But at the moment of that crash, Longo thought their years of turning dream into reality were going to come to an abrupt end.“It is true that in that last corner of the last lap of the first-ever E-Prix, when I saw the crash, I really thought it was over.
I thought that was it,” Longo says.“With this new technology, nothing before that existing, I did not even know if that driver was even going to come out of that car.
It could have been the end of Formula E. The fact that it happened and the driver came out perfectly safe, we demonstrated that the cars were safe to drive at those speeds.“I actually think that without that crash, we might not be here today.
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