If there is one lesson that the motorsport industry can be informed of from COVID-19, it is that the desire to adapt has been there, but the procedure has now accelerated. Championships and brands have been greatly affected by the pandemic in other tactics and I have had to find answers quickly.
Being proactive in canceling races is a smart way for Formula E to avoid the uncertainty of groups and time organizers, but it also created the challenge of how to update missed occasions and end the 2019-20 season.
The solution of having six races in the same position perhaps a little strange, but attractive at the same time. For the last race in Berlin, where Group 1 qualifying cars were expected to have the least amount of unrest due to rubber, the most productive ranked Max Guenther, 18th. It’s the worst ranking for Group 1 in FE, so there’s a lot to do even though the championship has already been decided. In the end, we finished 11 races and now we can be waiting for season seven.
The fact that we didn’t have enthusiasts there made it very strange, but like Formula One, I think the overall effect was less than other people had predicted. For me, it shows that we want to be more inclusive than enthusiasts. I want to feel closer to motorsport and be more interactive with it. It deserves to make a big difference, like a football game where enthusiasts really replace the atmosphere. This is a lesson to make motorsport even more inclusive in the future.
A vital lesson from the Berlin miniseries is that you can make several races in one position while having exciting careers. While I don’t think other people were so interested in watching races in the same position on the sixth day, it’s more vital to have entertaining careers than other designs. It would be better to have 10 exciting races in Berlin than another 10 positions with boring races.
The location is also less applicable when local spectators do not move on to racing; In general circumstances, other people would lose interest at the time you participate in the occasion and locally priced ticket sales may fall, and if you have a series in which the product is basically for entertainment like Formula E, it will most likely stay in the same place.
We had five other winners of the six races in Berlin due to sports regulations with the classification format, combined with the conditions of the conversion track, which shows that it is a much more powerful and cost-effective way to produce attractive breeds that simply converting Every day the track had other features, so it was difficult to achieve consistency.
The same goes for F1 racing at Silverstone. Without converting the location of the track, we had two other races, even with all the knowledge that the groups have in those circuits, which means that they are specialists in almost all circuits and have such an optimal simulation that they have to make a minimal replacement configuration, simply by converting the tire configuration.
There’s some other attractive point about that. Although there were 3 other routes in Berlin, the first race on the opposite track was the maximum to be informed, it is not the most complicated track to dominate compared to some of the locations we passed in FE, such as Rome Paris, but if tracks like Silverstone or Paul Ricard, which have two or 3 more configurations, can host several races , then the F1 and other FIA series are not afraid to use them on consecutive weekends if they work for a TV product.
The new popular means fewer corporate visitors and spectators in the place at times of race and for the foreseeable future: motorsport is primarily aimed at a television audience So I don’t see why this may not be a component of the solution reducing prices to save on budget and travel-related CO2 broadcasts. It’s smart to see that the F1 is looking for this with the outdoor track in Bahrain because it’s imaginable to do two races there.
A delight in Berlin that I personally don’t need to go back to have the fifth and sixth races in the middle of the week. I haven’t noticed spectator figures yet, but in Brazil, the races took place at 2 p. m. , when at most, other people were in the paintings and couldn’t watch them.
From the pilots’ point of view, it made no difference and no matter what you think, we have to get the knowledge before we take a resolution from the company about it, but I’m not convinced that you added anything to the series. The mid-week engagement is confusing. People are used to having the race this weekend and many other people who interact with me on social media would say, “Why do you post about Wednesday’s race?”
My opinion is that FE deserves not to be afraid of percentage a weekend with F1 or any other series, you will have to make a decision on your own calendar without any commitment, like F1, it is anything else when it comes to football because there are so many matches in a season, but the vital highs are positioned on weekends , such as the Champions League final. Since we only have 11 races in one season, I don’t see why we deserve not to continue doing on Saturdays like we did before.
In terms of having a lot of races in a short time, I compare Berlin a bit to Le Mans in terms of fatigue. Physically, I can do one FE run a day for the rest of the year, because it’s a 50 minute run. career, but mentally it is very difficult. However, I am not very satisfied with my functionality being in Group 1 in 4 of the six races, even though I outperformed more than anyone.
There are so many new things that would never have been implemented without this unprecedented time, and it has taught us that we can do many things differently. For example, in Berlin, we had our driving force briefing through Zoom and it was much more effective. that the same old thing, only lasted about 8 minutes while [the race director] Scot Elkins said everything he needed to communicate and we only communicated about the vital points. This would have been unthinkable before the pandemic!
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It’s a way to make things more effective, and even if things get back to normal, we don’t want to go back to the way they were before. By expanding efficiency, we can do many things safer, faster and cheaper, accelerating the procedure of bringing the long-term of motorsport closer to the long term of motorsport. As I said before, motorsport is very nostalgic in its technique of regulations and procedures: look to the afterlife to find answers before accepting new ideas, so we have the same regulations, just like year after year.
This kind of progress is sometimes very slow in motorsport, however, the pandemic has shown that we can in many spaces when there is still no selection to react, it has caused a lot of pain in the short term, but it has already made a massive impact. differentiates the long term from motorsport.