
Why an F1 champion thinks FE is the future
After retiring from Formula 1 at the end of 2016, Nico Rosberg has no plans to return to racing, but he's put his own money where his mouth is by becoming an investor in Formula E - a series he truly believes in
It was all serene until he got to Turn 1. Nico Rosberg, back behind the wheel of a single-seater, charged towards the first corner of Berlin's Tempelhof Airport in Formula E's Gen2 demonstration car. He'd driven it around Checkpoint Charlie and the Brandenburg Gate, but this was different - this was his natural environment.
The Gen2 car, more grey-scale in the carbonfibre flesh than in FE's initial announcement renders, sliced through the air and shot towards the long, looping left-hander of Turn 1. Then Rosberg hit the brakes and realised just what he'd let himself in for.

Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.
A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.
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