Over the past 11 months, only six races of Formula E took place, and all of them passed in August on the highway laid on the territory of the Old Berlin Airport "Templehof". It was dictated by emergency circumstances associated with a pandemic.
As will be folded by the season of 2021, until it is also not quite understandable, but his first stage, the race in Santiago, originally scheduled for mid-January, had to be transferred to an indefinite period.
Instead, the season will begin double races in Saudi Arabia at the end of February, and at the same time will have to resort to special measures, in particular, due to the current limitations of British teams of formula E will be able to get into ED-Diria only charter flights.
Jamie Reille was appointed executive director of Formula E only in September last year - he changed Alejandro Agaga in this post, the founder of the electric series.
"Perhaps a panic is the wrong word, but last year there was a certain moment when an incredible scale of difficulties was understood," Raigle said as part of the subcaster Add Decoded. - Formula E has a large number of shareholders and stakeholders - this is only one of the features that our championship distinguish.
We are responsible to the cities in which races are held, in front of fans, in front of the teams of our championship, in front of manufacturers of cars, in front of sponsors and partners. But the head must show about all the maximum care, whatever difficulties.
Everything was in a novelty for me, it was my first year in Formula E, I first found myself as an executive director in completely new circumstances. I tried to mobilize all my experience to cope with it, but never had anything like that that could prepare us somehow.
I am still amazed, remembering that we all had the opportunity to overcome last year, and, to be honest, we still have no clear idea of how everything will be folded further, despite some optimism associated with the advent of vaccines ... "
Source: Formula 1 on F1news.ru