Formula E has made quite a lot out of the fact that five different drivers have won the opening five races of this latest season. It is not random, there’s obviously skill, strategy and a fair sprinkling of luck involved, but for people that do not enjoy predictability, all-electric racing might be the thing you’re looking for.

It means that you don’t have to win the most races to win the title. Consider the following since 2020-21:

Season 7: Nyck de Vries wins the title with two wins. Jake Dennis, Sam Bird and Lucas di Grassi also win two each.

Season 8: Stoffel Vandoorne wins the title. He wins one race all season (Monaco). Mitch Evans and Edo Mortara (4), Nyck de Vries (2) win more races.

Season 9: Jake Dennis wins the title with two wins. Rounds 1 and 14. Nick Cassidy and Mitch Evans (4), Pascal Wehrlein (3) all win more.

Season 10: Wehrlein wins the title with three races. He also wins Round 1. Antonio Felix da Costa wins four races, including three in a row but finishes sixth (!) after a horrendous start to the season.

Season 11: Oliver Rowland wins three races as he wins the title. Nick Cassidy wins four races, including the final three in a row.

What have we proved? Quiet competency and consistency is more important than winning it or binning it on any given street circuit. Every point really does matter and while winning is obviously important, it’s not the be all and end all. Not finishing in the points or retiring is more hurtful than 10th. If you look at those champions above, Rowland had five DNFs or finishes outside the top 10, Wehrlein had two, Dennis had an awful run of four, Vandoorne one and de Vries had eight (!) but won the title with 99 points.

People were unable to capitalise with rivals having a similar number of DNFs or bad finishes. 

So if you can’t predict the outcome, that’s surely what fans want… isn’t it?

A lot was made of Jeff Dodds’ wager about Max Verstappen title win in 2024. Dodds, the CEO of Formula E. ended up splitting the donation with Verstappen but it was a newsworthy way of drawing attention to Formula 1’s perceived predictability. You tune in for a couple of hours on a Sunday, some things happen and then they play the Dutch national anthem. Simply lovely, if you’re that way inclined.

If Dodds really wants to make headlines, he’d make the same bet about any F1 driver of his choice this year! 

But while hardcore motorsport fans tend to dislike long periods of domination, it gives more casual fans a bit of a guide. If you don’t know the series, but Max and Lando Norris are at the top of the standings, then great, if they end up 14th, then something seriously bad has happened. If you watch football and the team at the top loses to the one at the bottom, you’ve just witnessed a shock.

I don’t think it’s possible for any Formula E fan to really have that guide. Just because Nick Cassidy is top of the standings it doesn’t mean he’s favourite for the next ePrix. So if you’re a casual fan, what’s your guide? You can’t use the standings, you can’t use qualifying and you can’t really use history. This problem gets compounded by Formula E races lasting less than an hour and it’s difficult to tell a story or build a narrative over the course of the race.

One thing I do like is that Formula E is trying. Their Google Gemini activation (they’ve rebadged their virtual race engineer) is a genuinely good use of AI, but it’s a small thing. The series is unable to build a narrative in the short time they have, and they can’t really fix it, meaning it’s difficult for fans to follow exactly why the driver in 17th has taken victory (as impressive as that is).

Despite all this, if you’re still on the fence about following Formula E, I urge you to absolutely get involved. I remember the concept being written about in an old SportsBusiness magazine when I first started working in sport, and I was taken by the concept. It didn’t look great when drivers were jumping out of one car and into another to finish the race, and if you look at where the series is now, and where it’s going with the Gen 4 car, there really isn’t a bad time to get involved.

Just don’t try to predict the outcome.

👕 The new Mercedes x Adidas gear is lovely

🍊 McLaren seem to be building an extended universe Mk 2, this time adding Grégoire Saucy aka Greg Sauce to the team.

🏒 Seated rivalry. I stand by it. Or sit.

⚔️ I loved the old MotoGP intro music, but this gives it a superhero on the edge of a building vibe.

All the headlines in 2026 are video game references.

Random Number Generators are key to video games, essentially a fancy roll of an infintely-sided dice. There are so many examples of games you could use here, but I've chosen Cadence of Hyrule. A stupidly clever concept crossed over with the Zelda franchise, and it just works.