2016-2017 Formula E Season

[sceptic]

Originally Posted by Rob29

How do they calculate how many watch? No one has ever asked me what I see--had satelite TV since 1989-must be over 200 channels on EPG-think I did watch Quest once

Some people have special boxes attached to their TVs, which monitor what is being watched and by whom. These boxes feed back results on a daily basis to create what are known as "overnight ratings". They give minute by minute numbers, as well as programme averages, five minute averages and fifteen minute averages. They have a margin of error of around 2%.

In addition, there's a much larger group who keep diaries of what they watch. These are collected weekly and the data is added to the overnights to produce "consolidated ratings". Because the sample size is four times greater, these have a slightly lower margin of error, however I believe they are only accurate to five minutes, not minute by minute.

[Biscuits In A Red Bull]

In other news, Maro Engel will race for Venturi next season alongside Sarrazin. Should be interesting...

[NaBUru38]

Also, Andretti has signed Félix da Costa to partner Robin Frijns, replacing Simona del Silvestro.

I hope that she finds a decent seat.

[p-matt]

I didn't realise Adam Carroll had been doing the bulk of testing for Jaguar. PLEASE give him the seat he deserves!!

[Mekola]

Monteiro tested Mahindra car... Another WTCC driver in the series?

[Formulahistory]

Rosenqvist replaces Senna at Mahindra - big suprise for me.

[HighParker]

Originally Posted by AoB Special Stage

http://current-e.com/chatter/wec-cla...endar-rethink/

New date for 6H Nurburgring conflicts with Montreal double header...

The Montreal date is also annoying for me, and I would assume some other Canadians, because it's on the same weekend as the Toronto IndyCar race. I suppose I could go to Montreal just for the Saturday and try to get back to Toronto for Sunday.

[Rob29]

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[NaBUru38]

Originally Posted by HighParker

The Montreal date is also annoying for me, and I would assume some other Canadians, because it's on the same weekend as the Toronto IndyCar race.

And the IMSA Mosport race is the previous week.

[Formulahistory]

I hope Massa gets the second Jaguar seat but that's very unlikely due to his F1 commitments...

[bjohnsonsmith]

Originally Posted by Formulahistory

I hope Massa gets the second Jaguar seat but that's very unlikely due to his F1 commitments...

Massa is retiring after this F1 season.

http://classic.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/125958

[skells22]

vearing in mind this weekend the people behind the dates will try to sort this one out this weekend therefore expect another date list

[Razzzor]

Mitch Evans confirmed at Jaguar with Adam Carroll and Ho-Pin Tung. Not sure if that means a 3 car team, sharing seats or one is reserve.

It will be interesting to see how Mitch compares with Adam, because most of his career he's had pay driver teammates - Laine, Cecotto, Markelov, Gelael, none of whom could ever get close to him consistently.

[Juntos]

As summer comes an end, I am not impressed with Mitch's GP2 campaign. I am not confident with his talent for Formula E. I haven’t wanted to tell you this, but you’re going to find out soon enough.

[HighParker]

Almost week-old news already, but since I don't see it mentioned here yet, the proposed track for the New York event was unveiled.
http://fiaformulae.com/en/news/2016/...rk-city-eprix/

The Formula E website still has TBA for the Montreal track, although what I assume is a guess is shown in the second of these articles based on the streets mentioned in the earlier first article.
http://montrealgazette.com/news/loca...ng-kept-secret
http://www.poleposition.ca/actualite...ls.php?ID=2079

[skells22]

speaking of new york and Montreal we had a small case of musical dates here New York now has the clashing headache with WEC Nurburgring while Montreal is now last race of season, no TBAs either

[HighParker]

Well, that solves my problem of having to choose to between the Toronto IndyCar and Montreal FE events originally scheduled on the same weekend. But oddly (if true), "the change came at the request of the organisers in the US". If they were the ones who wanted a different date, you'd think they could have gone one week earlier or later to avoid the already well-known problem of the date clash with the Nürburgring WEC race.

[AoB Special Stage]

Gutierrez situating a move to FE.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report...rmula-e-switch

[kobefly]

I was here at BA ePrix last week. I have to say the action on track was not bad. Unfortunately for us, the spectators, the organization did a really poor job.
Having people recognizing Pechito in his own country after 3 years of success abroad was the highlight for me.

[Biscuits In A Red Bull]

Well after 3 races, can anyone stop Sebastien Buemi?

[Formulahistory]

it's like Mercedes in Formula One. He will win almost every race. but just ALMOST.

[Fulvio]

Esteban Gutiérrez will be in Mexico City racing with Ma Qing Hua's car.

https://www.motorsport.com/formula-e...-squad-880607/

[Nikki Katz]

Is this at all likely to be a permanent move? Ma seems a bit out of his depth in the series

[Fulvio]

Originally Posted by Nikki Katz

Is this at all likely to be a permanent move? Ma seems a bit out of his depth in the series

Could be. In fact Alejandro Agag said, during the presentation of Gutiérrez happened in January, that the Mexican could be racing more than one or two events.

[Fulvio]

Gutiérrez confirmed as Techeetah' second driver for the rest of Season 3

http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/2...ormula-e-team/