Dare to Be Different ambassador and motorsport marshal Carole Brackley hopes that Formula E will return to the Battersea Park Street Circuit in the future.
The host venue for the London ePrix is missing from the 2016/17 calendar after four races at the circuit took place during the ’14/15 and ’15/16 seasons after controversy around the hosting of the event.
This race traditionally ended the season, but the current season concludes with double-headers in Montreal and a finale in New York.
Brackley marshalled in the pitlane at the first two London ePrix events after starting her role in 2012 at conventional race tracks including Silverstone for Formula 1 races.
She also defended the series’ divisive reputation amongst motorsport fans, with some loving the formula since its introduction and some being less than complimentary.
“I did both of them at Battersea Park,” Brackley told Read Motorsport at the Dare to be Different stand at Autosport International.
“It’s great, people don’t realise [that], they think it’s Scalextric. It’s utterly brilliant and it’s a shame that Battersea Park has lost the race but I’m sure it will come back.”
Brackley thinks that the series offers something unique than other forms of motorsport in being a series that is still developing and still small enough for human interaction between teams.
“It was better actually because it was smaller. It’s more friendly, there aren’t so many teams, so you got to know the teams better and it is being promoted really well too. It was really good.”
She is even looking to make plans to attend the New York ePrix at some point, with the maiden two races in the Big Apple being the penultimate round of the 2016-17 calendar on July 15-16.
“I would do it again. Certainly, I’m hoping that when it takes off that I might be able to go and marshal over in New York.”
