Since Formula E was founded 10 years ago, organisers of the all-electric championship have tried for over a decade to race in Japan’s capital, now the most populous city on earth with a population of more than 37 million. That dream has finally become a reality, and the inaugural Tokyo E-Prix will take place this Saturday around a 1.604-mile circuit in the Tokyo Big Sight area of the city.
By staging a race in Tokyo, it has tapped into one of the biggest markets in the world after years of trying “Someone is going to get it very wrong through there” was an utterance by one of the Mahindra simulator engineers during my session and having gone off through that particular section of track it was easy to see why.