The 2022 season will be last for Formula E’s second generation of cars, before its new ‘Gen3’ package arrives next year.
It’s been a tough few years for many racing series. But it’s been an especially tricky time to be one whose modus operandi is going to city centres and getting right up close to people.
Formula E took the pandemic harder than, for example, Formula 1, as its season was already midway through when Covid hit in 2020. It was sent into an endless holding pattern of cancelled and rescheduled races as things shut down.
At the time, Formula E was having its strongest year yet, bolstered with new entries from major manufacturers at Porsche. But a damp squib season ender with six races in total seclusion at Berlin Tempelhof saw momentum slip away.
It kept slipping during a nine-month gap between seasons before a double-header-heavy, event-sparse calendar. Formula E’s first world championship year was marred by farcical energy rules at races that people did know…