🗣️ 'On the straights, basically, we couldn't see' FormulaE drivers believe the correct call was made to halt the LondonEPrix twice due to torrential rain, with conditions borderline even when racing got under way ⬇️
The Formula E season finale took place at the ExCeL London’s unique indoor/outdoor layout on Sunday, which wasPrior to the two stoppages, race director Scot Elkin had instructed drivers to follow the safety car to assess conditions before deploying the red flag.
With only six laps completed behind the safety car and nearly an hour and 20 minutes after the race officially started, drivers went back out for a third time with green flag running commencing from the eighth lap via a rolling start. “They [the conditions] were very bad. Scot said that we were about to go racing before the first red flag and I was basically shouting down the radio saying it’s way too dangerous," said NIO 333’s“It was honestly pretty dangerous for the whole race even when it did start but everyone here is very experienced and mature.
“On the straights, basically, we couldn’t see, no one was doing anything stupid so [we were] able to have a pretty clean race which was good in the end.”