Formula E trying to take advantage of leaving Battersea

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Formula E will try to use the decision to not race at Battersea to try and find a better location in the heart of the capital.

The series have already announced that they would not return to Battersea Park after this weekend, following a campaign by locals to stop the ePrix taking place. When asked if he had underestimated the amount of people who were against Formula E, Alejandro Agag insisted that it was only a small group of people, but the series has listened to them.

[pullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“They are really very few, but we have listened to them. If you want my personal opinion, I think’s a big mistake they’ve made and I think they haven’t thought of the general interest.” [/pullquote]

Agag hopes to use this to the series’ advantage and push for a race elsewhere in the city, mimicking the circuit change in Berlin.

[pullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“In Berlin, we were racing in Tempelhof. We had to stop racing in Tempelhof and got a better location in the heart of Berlin. I think the same thing will happen in London.”[/pullquote]

Formula E are looking at many locations across the city, including around the Olympic park and the O2, but the hope is to be somewhere as central as the Mall and Buckingham Palace.

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Image courtesy of FIA Formula E Media

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