ANNOUNCER: The streets of exotic Hong Kong
normally hum to the tune of fossil-fueled traffic.
But this weekend, those streets form a racing circuit
for the all-electric racing series, Formula E.
- How you doing? Pleasure, welcome. - Thank you very much.
- Great to meet you. - How are you doing?
CREWMEMBER: He can roll out, pull out to the bridge.
ANNOUNCER: It's Jean-Éric Vergne on pole position
for the Techeetah Team, his fifth pole position...
VISITOR: Right here? ALEJANDRO: Yeah. Here is better.
VISITOR: Okay. ALEJANDRO: Because like this
we don't get the fence.
We have the trees, but we don't get the fence.
ANNOUNCER: Activation of the start procedure.
We are waiting for lights to start the race.
And, uh, well, we do have a very long pause here,
so I wonder if there is...
some kind of issue.
Come on.
- What's going on? - WORKER: Hello?
Is there a light problem?
But we don't actually have any information.
Roger, what the fuck happened?
- The lights failed. - Who the fuck is responsible
- for the lights? - Albon and Rafael.
I'm gonna fucking kill them. Where are they?
Albon was just down there.
Formula E could've been created by two kind of people,
either "environmentalists" or racing people.
It was created by me, racing guy.
But it gets the best of both.
The first time I thought about Formula E,
I was working in Formula 1.
I loved it.
I love the world of motor racing.
I was trying to amaze this company
to become a sponsor of Formula 1,
and in every emails they were saying,
"We cannot be involved with Formula 1 because it's polluting".
"We cannot be involved with Formula 1 because of the CO2".
"We cannot be involved with Formula 1
because it's not environmentally-friendly. We cannot..."
And then I thought, "We have a problem."
I said, "We need to find a green Formula 1."
Because if we can find a green Formula 1,
that's where the big business for the future is going to be.
I started Formula E with Jean Todt,
the president of the FIA, and when we announced it,
everyone thought we were gonna go bust.
Everybody thought he was mad. I did.
I thought it was.. that it was an impossible task.
The thing is the people...
the first impression they have for motor racing
it's the noise.
There's no noise on electric formula.
I was just like, oh, I don't know.
I mean, it would be cool if this happened, but...
I didn't think that they would have the neck
to come out and say the planet is dying
and we have to do something.
But there's no question
that that was the whole premise of the series.
Like I say, I'm not an environmentalist.
I'm a racing man, but I do worry about the environment.
So if I can put both together...
fantastic.
Whatever the problems were
appear to be resolved.
It looks as though we are getting ready to go racing.
- 50 seconds. - Ready, ready.
And we go green in Hong Kong.
It's a good start from Vergne.
He's gonna hold the lead on the run down to Tamar Park.
ALEJANDRO: The Formula E season is 12 races
in the heart of ten of the biggest cities in the world...
20 drivers from 10 teams
fighting to be the champion of the season.
And this year, season four,
starts with two races in Hong Kong.
SAM: I've driven Formula 1.
Now with Formula E,
it's the hardest car I've ever had to drive in my life.
You go into every braking zone
not fully knowing what the car is going to do underneath you.
LUCAS: The pure technique of driving an electric car to the limit
is much more precise.
The throttle response is instantaneous.
Every race is a street track,
and street racing is.. is rare.
And not only that, it's in the city center,
so the margin for mistake is very, very small or none.
SAM: You are driving flat out, but you are trying to consume
as little energy as humanly possible.
Uh, Jev has less energy. Start to use more energy.
It's like playing chess at 200 kilometers per hour.
SCOTT: Almost every guy in here is a previous F1 driver,
which obviously is the top echelon of motorsport.
And here comes André Lotterer.
This is his first race in Formula E.
This is a total new thing, completely different.
Cars are really difficult to drive.
So, yeah, it's going to be a steep learning curve.
ANDRÉ: The sound of the engine is usually a speed reference
for you when you go through a corner...
but that one is gone.
But, yeah, I'm pretty excited.
André, are you okay?
ANDRE: Yeah. Fuck.
This is fucking dangerous, man.
The Frenchman, Jean-Éric Vergne, known as Jev,
moves into the lead.
JEAN-ÉRIC VERGNE: You need to be aggressive.
The moment you decide to relax...
instead of going very close to the wall,
I'm gonna take, like, 10 centimeters margin
this is the moment where you get fucked.
Jean-Éric Vergne still leading the way.
Sam Bird alongside him.
These two were teammates once.
A lot of history between those two drivers.
Jev is the most difficult guy to overtake.
He won't give an inch.
A late, late defense there.
DARIO: With Jev, it's better to maneuver him into an area
where he then feels like he's secure...
and then strike.
Did a little look To the inside!
There he goes up the inside. Great move from Sam Bird!
Did it, boys. Well done.
Sam Bird wins in Hong Kong!
There's your winner.
Sam Bird for the DS Virgin Racing Team
takes victory and the 25 points that come with it.
It's second for Jean-Éric Vergne, 21 points.
The driver who wins
the most points
at the end of 12 races
will win the championship.
JEAN-PAUL: Jean-Éric Vergne is a very special guy.
He's just, uh, sometimes a little bit crazy.
DILBAGH: My sort of nickname for Jev..
I call him a fuckin' nightmare.
HAZEL: A lot of journalists will tell you
that Jev is really moody,
and Jev definitely is an emotional driver.
He's the Frenchest French I know.
That says a lot of things about him.
HAZEL: Jev was really angry
when he first bid in Formula E.
He was furious that he'd been dropped from Formula 1,
and certainly, it's very good for Jean-Éric
to have a teammate who he can be really close to.
FISHER: So this year you have a new teammate.
JEAN-ÉRIC: Uh, yeah, André, André Lotterer.
Obviously, I've heard of him when I was a kid.
He's older than me, and, uh,
is some sort of legend in sports college.
DARIO: He's won in everything's done,
and he's driven everything.
Look at his CV. He's driven everything.
LUCAS: André was three time Le Mans winner.
So he was considered the best
endurance driver of the planet.
COMMENTATOR: Very successful at sports cars.
Very successful in Japan.
ANNOUNCER: André Lotterer.
He's a super good-looking guy,
and he looks really, really easy, no tension,
always smiling.
LUCAS: It's his first year in Formula E,
so I have no doubt he will be having a tough time.
ANDRÉ: Maybe.
"Hey, are you ignoring me now?"
- Which way you going? - I'm sorry.
André, photo.
Photo. Superstar.
Superstar!
- Bonjour! - JEAN-ÉRIC: That's my dad.
Bonsoir!
JEAN-ÉRIC: Okay, let's go, let's meet Papa.
If we continue this way...
JEAN-ÉRIC: We didn't grow up the same way as all the other kids.
I was here, I was doing karting,
I was preparing the races,
I was mounting my chassis, my go-karts,
and then on the weekend, I was gone for racing.
JEAN-ÉRIC: It was very clear to me
that I need to give up everything I do
and focus hundred percent on the racing.
Formula 1, that was my dream, that's what I wanted to do.
FISHER: Why do they all feel like Formula 1 is it?
Because it has been it.
Formula 1 is the pinnacle of the sport.
It's the most technologically advanced.
It's the fastest cars, the most dynamic cars.
It's the biggest version of our sport that there is,
and drivers, when they're young, it's what they all aspire to.
FISHER: When you were a kid, what was your dream?
Formula 1 driver, obviously,
like every kid at the beginning.
Any sport is like a triangle.
You've got all these kids down here..
they wanna make it there.
That's.. that's the thing.
When I was growing up, it was Formula 1,
and there's 20 guys.
So the chance of getting there,
to the most exclusive club in the world,
is very, very difficult.
DARIO: Sam is the underdog, isn't he?
He loves to think of himself as that guy that's,
"Yeah, I.. I probably shouldn't be here,"
which he should, he's a really good driver.
JAMES: He was fantastic in the category below Formula 1.
Then he never kind of quite got that little bit of luck.
HAZEL: Most racing drivers are posh.
Sam is not.
He came up the karting scene
and was picked up by talent scouts.
SAM: The boyhood dream was to win races in Formula 1.
Now, that's... that's not gonna happen.
There's more chance of me....
going to the moon on a banana.
Like, seriously, that's.. that's about as much chance
as I've got of being in that world again.
And I love what I do.
Why.. why would I.. why would I change my life
to be back in that shark-infested nasty pool?
- NELSON: Gracias. - SERVER: Gracias.
My favorite. Vegan life.
FISHER: Vegan life is so good.
NELSON: Some drivers, they like the fame
of being a racing driver and they..
and their dream is to be in Formula 1.
My dream is to race.
If I'm gonna race go-karts the rest of my life
and earn my money, I'm happy doing that.
FISHER: Tell me about Nelson Piquet.
- Nelson Piquet, Jr.? - Junior.
Yeah, junior, absolutely. Nelson Piquet, Jr.
I thought you were talking about senior.
Good-looking boy, fast.
DARIO: One of the things with Nelson is
that there's another guy called Nelson Piquet..
his dad.
Nelson's kind of always been in his shadow.
NELSON: That's my dad's helmet from early '80s.
He won three world championships.
Geez, it's decomposing.
DARIO: Racing is his life.
Nelson will race anything.
NELSON: I'm a pure racer, you know?
It doesn't matter if I race Formula E, Formula 1, a...
a truck.
I love racing.
ANNOUNCER: It's Nelson Piquet, Jr. winning,
and his second cup series win.
NELSON: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Yeah, that was a win!
Yes! Yes, yes, yes!
The design of the teardrop runs in our family.
It started with my dad's helmet design.
You know, it has one over here was the...
the stripe that goes around the helmet
and then there's another teardrop on the top.
So when I won the championship, I did.. I did the tattoo
of the teardrop, which is on our helmets
but was a circuit board inside
because of the first electric world champion.
There's so many drivers who are in Formula E
for a redemption story...
Nelson almost more than anyone.
ANNOUNCER: Renault's actions at last year's Singapore grand prix
have taken sport to a new low.
ANNOUNCER: That's Nelson Piquet..
Oh, big crash!
HAZEL: Nelson crashed in Formula 1
so that his teammate had a better chance of taking the title.
It was a massive scandal,
and by the point that Nelson cleared his name
in court, it was too late.
He never got another drive in Formula 1.
FISHER: When that happened to you,
did you think, like, your racing career was over?
No, I don't know, um...
It was nearly a bad dream or something,
and I.. I didn't really know what to do.
I was just kind of going with the flow, you know.
Everybody's telling you to do something, so I mean...
you're 21, you're 22.
You know? What the hell are you gonna do?
When I joined Formula E, it was tough in the beginning
because, you know, I had a lot of drivers,
like, a little bit against me.
They thought that because of problems I had in F1
it would have been bad formally to have me over there.
I had guys like Lucas trying to push everything he could
to get me out.
LUCAS: I'd never seen anything like that in a sport,
uh...such a big conspiracy.
He was underperforming.
He was not performing well, and he was gonna get fired.
Somebody said, "Crash on purpose,
and you can stay one more year."
He was putting his life in danger,
maybe the life of other people in danger.
Crashing for somebody else to win a race
or for you to renew a contract, I would not do it.
DILBAGH: Lucas di Grassi.. what can I say about him?
The guy feels a bit entitled.
He's so...arrogant
and, uh, he's a little bit condescending
to the other drivers.
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
This is only half of the Formula E trophies.
The other half is in Brazil.
And this is why the others don't like him.
LUCAS: I'm different from the other drivers.
Racing is part of my life. It's not my whole life.
For me, it was, uh, a lifestyle that I wanted to achieve.
HAZEL: Lucas likes the image of the professor.
He likes the image of somebody who's very technically aware.
He is.. he's a really, really smart dude.
- You designed this? - Yeah, it's my company.
- Where's the battery? - The battery stays inside the frame.
It has regenerative braking like the Formula E car.
I was the first driver to join
Formula E with Alejandro.
In the first year of Formula E, pretty much all the drivers
talked bullshit about Formula E in the very beginning.
Say, "Electric.. I'm never gonna drive that."
They realized later that, uh, this is the future
and there's no way of getting around it.
If you want to be a professional driver,
you need to be where the manufacturers are,
and the manufacturers, they want to develop electric cars..
that's why they are in Formula E.
This is a.. year '91. It's a Testarossa 512.
It's a.. it's a super classic, yeah.
Was my dream car when I was a kid.
FISHER: What about fuel consumption?
LUCAS: These cars were like 3 kilometers per liter,
something ridiculous, yeah.
Electric cars are more efficient.
They are better for an environment,
and they are better overall.
So there is no way back.
Right now, the Formula E car goes up to maybe 220 kph,
but in five years it has the potential
to be the fastest cars on the planet,
and the combustion engine will not be able to catch up.
ALEJANDRO: The revolution is coming.
It's just a question of time.
Climate change is real,
and people are starting to wake up.
Here we are.
But one of the biggest things
still keeping people from buying electric cars
is range anxiety..
basically, people getting nervous
that the battery's going to die.
So what we're focusing on in Formula E
is to make more efficient and longer-lasting batteries.
When we started Formula E, the problem was
that in the world, there were no batteries
that could, um...
feed the energy to a race car for longer than 25 minutes.
So we needed the races to last about an hour.
We came up with kind of a very simplistic approach.
We said let's give two cars to every driver.
When they finish the battery of the first car,
they jump out and they go to the second car.
But always, always our objective was
to eliminate that change.
Now we are saying next season, season 5,
we're gonna do the entire race with just one car.
With McLaren, we are working on a new,
revolutionary battery that can last the whole race.
This is the biggest bet we've done,
and we will test it in a few months.
And this battery really needs to work,
because Mercedes and Porsche
have agreed to enter next year's championship
because we are going from two cars to one car.
The thing that people need to understand about motorsport
is that it has always been an incubator
for things that end up in road cars.
And there's so many track-to-road stories,
I mean, disc brakes, seatbelts, deformable crash structures.
All kinds of technology was pioneered by the racetrack
and has ended up on everybody's road cars.
That's why the manufacturers are getting involved
because this is a series which is going in the same direction
as the automotive industry, which is pivoting towards electric.
Imagine, you take a series
where the drivers actually have to physically change cars
because of range anxiety at the start of the series,
but by season five,
you've got a battery that will go the whole way through.
What an amazing story that would be
to tell the world about how this racing series
could really accelerate technology.
ANNOUNCER: Look at the crowds coming into the circuit
at Marrakesh.
COMMENTATOR: Lotta celebrities on hand.
How about Legolas himself, Orlando Bloom,
one of a number of high-profile personalities
on hand this weekend.
ALEJANDRO: No pictures
It's very important
to have personalities and celebrities at the races.
Having those persons
makes it easier to get to the big public.
LEONARDO: How you doing? A pleasure to meet you.
ALEJANDRO: Leo has come every season to a race.
I don't know he could be involved with
any other kind of motor racing.
LEONARDO: I remember when I had the first Tesla.
It was basically stacks of cell phone batteries,
and it would heat up immediately
as I went up the hill to my house.
For race cars, we have to design a whole cooling system
that is super-advanced...
- Mm-hmm. - To cool the battery.
And that can be then used for the road cars
to make them much better.
- Wow. - Yeah, there you go.
And so what are concrete
actual advancements since starting?
- The cars have like a brain... - Mm-hmm.
That is the one that coordinates the battery
and the electric motor.
Every car has the same battery
and the same chassis, the same body,
but every team develops its own powertrain
and its own software.
And it basically tells the battery
how much energy to send to the electric motor
and manages also the temperature.
It's a whole kind of management system
of the electric powertrain.
Those, they take the software from here,
they put it on the road car.
So it's no longer mechanics
and guys that can essentially make the fastest car.
It's almost like a tech race now.
It's a tech race.
And actually, that's one of the key elements of competition..
how well they manage the energy,
because we want saved energy
to be one of the key elements of winning a race.
Because the only way to motivate these big companies
to develop more and more technologies..
to make them fight against each other to win.
LEONARD: Mahindra.. I've heard a lot about them.
- Very strong, really strong. - Yeah?
Yeah, they're Indians. A great company from India.
They make cars, they make trucks,
they make tuk-tuks.
They're one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.
How are you?
ALEJANDRO: In Asia, population is exploding.
Pollution in the cities is terrible.
So electric cars are a huge deal in Asia.
For example, Nio is a young Chinese company
that is setting itself up to be a massive producer
of electric cars for the Chinese market.
HAZEL: Jaguar had never made an electric car
before they entered Formula E.
It was certainly a good way of announcing
that they were gonna make electric cars.
Renault were the only manufacturers
that came in right at the start.
Everyone was a bit like, "Oh, diddling around in Formula E cars, Renault?
That's very French of you."
JEAN-PAUL: Everybody was telling us
"It will never work," and we said, look,
if it works, then you will look like stupid
and you will bite your fingers
because you didn't follow us right at the beginning.
HAZEL: Now Formula E has manufacturers cueing up
to make that fastest race car.
So there is no question
that the technology will be in showrooms
in a couple of years.
ALEJANDRO: Many people say, "Formula E, electric cars,
cool, whatever, but where is the energy coming from?"
To really have the full circle,
you need to use an electric car,
but you need to use it with renewable energy.
You see those chimneys there?
LEONARDO: Yeah. ALEJANDRO: Those are the generators.. no smoke.
We looked into using solar energy,
but you cannot produce the energy with solar
fast enough to charge the cars.
We looked also at hydrogen,
but the fuel cells, they cannot fly.
If you put them on a plane, with a change of pressure, the membrane breaks.
We found this glycerin from sea algae and cooking oil
called Aquafuel.
We could now run a city of about 2,000 homes...
LEONARDO: Mm-hmm. ALEJANDRO: Only with this.
How does it generate energy?
I.. I don't quite understand.
Right.
ALEJANDRO: And it uses this.
This is the fuel we use, Aquafuel,
and the funny thing is, you can taste it.
And the generator...
almost like a normal generator,
but it produces no emissions.
So you don't need to tap into the grid,
which goes back to the main problem
which is where do you source your energy from?
- Are you burning coal or.. - Exactly.
Fish, you wanna try?
- So, it's sweet. - Yeah, sweet.
ANNOUNCER: Pole position for Sébastien Buemi.
Alongside him on the front row
is Britain's Sam Bird for the DS Virgin team.
And we go green in Marrakesh!
It's a good start from Rosenqvist.
He cuts towards the inside. Good start from di Grassi as well.
Because of the way the systems work in Formula E
with the regenerative braking..
which means that whenever they brake,
the batteries charge..
the driver has to learn how to drive that car
in a very, very different way
than what he would, uh, an internal combustion engine car.
SAM: Every time you use power,
you're taking... little bit out of the battery.
But when you regen,
you take it out and then you put..
a little bit back in.
And if you're good at saving the energy,
you'll have a little bit more compared to the opposition.
SCOTT: It's something that makes it very different,
so even though they're the best in the world,
they still come in here
and they still have to learn how to redrive this car.
ANDRÉ: It's been a steep learning curve.
You have to focus so much on the energy.
And learning new tracks between these walls,
it's like..."Are you ever gonna feel good about this?"
Pressure's on,
but it doesn't mean I'll change my approach.
CREWMEMBER: André, are you okay?
Um...I'm out of power here.
ANNOUNCER: Rosenqvist, the Mahindra driver,
wins in Marrakesh!
HAZEL: I think maybe André did kind of think
that Formula E might be easier than it is.
I mean, after Marrakesh,
did I think André was gonna last the season?
Maybe not.
Even if you finish badly, you wanna finish the race.
To have to walk back along the tra
I mean, it's just embarrassing.
CREWMEMBER: Maybe I should get a press kit?
CREWMEMBER: No, no, no.
ANDRÉ: I should have walked back and jumped in the other one, right?
- FISHER: Is that legal? - Can you do that? - No, you can't.
You need to come here with your first car.
Okay.
JEAN-ÉRIC: Read the rules. ANDRÉ: Well, you know,
I found this job where I didn't need to study anything, so...
What?
FISHER: How.. how did you do today?
What I did today was just a perfect days,
and, uh, when you do a perfect day that you finish fifth,
means you cannot win a championship like this.
So...I'm gonna push the team very hard
to try and improve it, uh, try and win races
because we have to win races
if you wanna win a championship.
And right now, we're not in position to do so.
But keep the positive attitude.
Actually, no.
- No? - Sometimes you need to push the team...
- Yeah. - Show the angry face.
Because if you look happy all the time,
then people think, you know, there is nothing to work on.
FISHER: The sound of victory, right?
- ANDRÉ: Yeah. - JEAN-ÉRIC: Great sound.
When you win.
It's good for them. It's a good team.
FISHER: Is it very important for Jev to win in Formula E?
When Jev first became in Formula 1,
of course, I was very happy.
But immediately, I think
it would be very difficult because he was not in a good team.
We didn't talk together too much because, uh,
I think he didn't see the reality.
At 20 years old,
he have camera right in front of him from everybody
and he was losing his head a little bit.
HAZEL: Fundamentally, the Red Bull program
found him lacking for whatever their reasons are.
So they dropped him in the usual way that they do.
Once you start being questioned on your skill,
once you start being questioned on your commitment,
once you get, like, the head of the junior program
trash talking you in the press.. which Jev absolutely did,
he got called lazy..
and he got hospitalized because you're trying to
starve yourself down to your teenage teammate's weight..
like, that's fucked up.
Voilà.
ALEJANDRO: I don't think that Techeetah has a strong chance
of winning the championship.
I think they're too small.
I think they're a good team and they have good drivers,
but I think.. I don't think they have the resources
to win the championship.
Okay, André, you're probably still...
too forward at the moment.
LUCAS: We just moved flats because the baby's coming.
It's ready. This is the baby room.
FISHER: You already got it.
Yeah, so we are just building up so we have some stuff.
Super exciting, actually.
I don't have a lot of worries for the future.
I think technology will solve a lot of issues.
But there are a lot of questions, a lot of problems.
Climate change is one.
So there'll be a lot of question marks, uh,
for my son.
When he's 40 or 30,
the world will be completely different.
FISHER: How did you get into racing?
Was your father a race car driver?
LUCAS: No. Growing up in Brazil,
there was two things we did during the weekend.
We watched football,
and we watched Formula 1 'cause of Senna.
LUCAS: Ayrton Senna was a Brazilian icon.
He was three-time world champion,
and the impact that this guy has
on the.. on Brazilian people
was so huge.
When Senna died, Brazil stopped.
After that, I started taking racing more seriously.
But on top of it,
I wanted to impact people in a positive way
the same way Senna did.
And I can do that by racing.
NELSON: I think my dad had a lot against Senna.
They had their rivalry back in the day.
In those days, those guys were...
in a way, superheroes.
I think racing was so cool those days
because they sat in cars that were
as fast as Formula 1 cars are nowadays,
but they were 1/4 of safety.
They would lose one or two friends a year.
And Senna was one of the last drivers that passed away.
My dad didn't race for Brazil.
My dad raced for himself.
He raced because he loved racing
because the money was good, because you had fun.
ANNOUNCER: And then out goes Piquet!
My goodness!
NELSON: My dad, when he didn't like something,
didn't like somebody for a reason, that was it.
ANNOUNCER: Oh, my goodness!
NELSON: That gave him a lot of bad press at the same time,
but my dad didn't care.
Those are the kinda things that I did learn from my dad.
You get guys like Lucas...
I'm not gonna pretend when he comes to a racetrack
and take a picture and post something..
"Oh, so great to have you here, my Brazilian friend."
FISHER: You definitely tick a nerve with him.
Piquet.
Yeah, we have a long history of fight each other.
He likes to speak badly about other drivers in the press.
So every time he says something bad about myself,
I reply.
And that creates clash, of course.
I beat him in F3, I beat him in GP2,
I took his place in F1.
So he got a bit, uh... he got a bit, uh,
how you call it, uh...
what's the right word, um...
Bitter about it.
LUCAS: My generation in Brazil when I was a kid
was myself, Nelson Piquet,
and Bruno Senna.
So I had a Senna and a Piquet
racing against me.
So I never had any sponsorship.
All the sponsorship from Brazilian companies..
they would go either to Senna or to Piquet, of course,
because of the names.
My family does not come from autosports,
so I went the hard way.
And Nelson, on the contrary,
he had everything very easy in his life.
The father set up his own team.
He never had the pressure that I had.
He had a very easy life on this topic,
because the father knew exactly how to do it.
NELSON: Obviously, I had my dad's influence.
He gave all of us the same opportunity..
you can race if you want to. Here's a go-kart.
Let's see how it goes for a couple of years.
And if you notice that you don't love it to your bone,
then he said, "Look, this is not your thing.
Let's go find something else for you."
But I loved racing.
So I ended up doing go-karts with my mechanics.
My dad was always working,
my mom just taking care of her own life.
I probably spent more days with my mechanic
than my dad, for sure.
JEAN-ÉRIC: This city, you see you can barely see the mountain.
I'm sure it would look beautiful,
and all you see is pollution.
If you come by here in 15 years,
this city's on the electric car,
I can be 100% sure you're gonna be able to see the mountain.
FISHER: How do you feel about how André's been doing?
You know, he's been unlucky so far, uh, not scoring points,
but, uh, I know that, for example,
in the race in Marrakesh, he was really quick before the car broke down.
And, uh, he will be there, you know?
He will be as fast as me. I'm very, you know, I'm sure of that.
Yeah, but you know, that's motorsport,
that's sport as in general.
You do a good race, you know, you're the king.
You win a race, you're the king.
The next race, you do a mistake...
the second race after, you also do a mistake,
people start thinking you're not good anymore.
Some teams, they will be thinking of
actually replacing you, which is completely nonsense.
ANDRÉ: They had really high expectations for me,
obviously, with the results I had in the past.
The people have no patience in this sport, you know?
Doesn't matter.. even if you're a rookie,
you always want to be on the top.
I just need to put everything together
and it's gonna come.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the inaugural Santiago ePrix.
ANNOUNCER: There's our race leader, Jean-Éric Vergne.
Second, Nelson Piquet.
In third, the rookie, André Lotterer.
The Techeetah of André Lotterer...
ANNOUNCER 2: Here comes Jev! ANNOUNCER: The corner and up the inside...
and Lotterer passes Piquet!
And look at Lotterer. He's caught up to Jev.
André Lotterer trying to go around the outside of Jean-Éric...
And the two Techeetah cars almost collide!
JEAN-ÉRIC: Guys, what the fuck was that?
HAZEL: Watching André and Jev fight...
that was extraordinary in motorsport..
Don't take out your teammate is the absolute rule.
ANNOUNCER: And his teammate, André Lotterer,
is right behind!
Oh, no! ANNOUNCER 2: He's hit him!
ANNOUNCER: The two Techeetahs hit each other!
And Vergne, does he make it around the corner yet?
You don't do that to your teammate.
Usually, the two drivers from the same team,
they don't touch each other.
He's.. he's not touching him. He was on the top of him.
On the top of him.
ANNOUNCER: Jean-Éric Vergne takes the checkered flag,
and for the first time in Formula E history,
a team takes both first and second place.
Whoo-hoo!
JEAN-ÉRIC: Yeah, baby, that is so good.
First one, two in Formula E history.
LUCAS: I was running fifth on the way to a podium.
And then we had another reliability problem,
and the car stopped.
ANNOUNCER: Oh, di Grassi's got a problem!
You've got to be kidding me. ANNOUNCER 2: Oh, my goodness.
LUCAS: And that what happened in Hong Kong.
ANNOUNCER: Lucas di Grassi
pulls over at the side of the circuit.
LUCAS: And what happened in Marrakesh.
I have no power again.
No power, no power again.
So all the preparation, everything that we've done,
all the simulation, all the training..
everything gone in... one second.
Nelson, it's been another successful one for you.
- Well done. - Yeah, I must say I'm really happy
with, uh, with everybody in the team.
Every weekend, we're gonna be stronger and stronger.
We need to build up and, uh, we're gonna be there.
Soon we're gonna be there back on top of the podium.
I reckon they won't stay friends like that
for a long time.
Yeah, there's a lotta love going on there at the moment.
- At the moment, yeah, but... - A lotta love.
That's.. we'll leave it to them.
FISHER: Because they.. Soon it's gonna be..
They're both very good drivers
and they both have a very good car,
and they will both be fighting for the same thing,
and...it doesn't work.
You've always gotta try and keep your teammate
beneath you, you know, it's, uh...
It's a funny kind of sport in that respect.
Your teammate.. you're in a team with him..
and if it's like, you know, most other team sports,
you know, you're all working together for a common goal.
In this sport, you do everything together for a common goal
until the moment on which you get on the track,
and then you tryin' to beat the other guy.
There's not many other sports like that.
SAM: Him and André are best pals,
and it's great that they've.. they've got that.
But, look, Jev was my teammate.
He was a different person.
Man, that guy had some issues that year, like mentally.
There were genuinely times where
at the beginning of the weekend,
wouldn't say hello to each other.
We'd just walk in.
It was really strained.
He was in a very dark... place.
JEAN-ÉRIC: Looking where I come from,
I went from, you know, the little kid that was
his dream was to go in Formula 1, and I succeeded.
I was on top of the world, and I went down to zero.
You know, no more contract, no more salary,
no more anything.
And, uh...all the friends I had around myself...
nearly all of them disappeared
in less than one month when I was out of Formula 1.
Everybody disappeared.
I had to start from zero.
It was disappointing, and, um...
Yeah, 2014 was really...
shitty for us.
I mean, he lost his dad. I lost Formula 1.
I..
Lost a friend in Formula 1.
Yeah, it was hard. Ha.
FISHER: Who.. who was your friend?
Uh, Jules Bianchi, French driver.
We started racing to...
Sorry.
One moment.
FISHER: Was he on your team?
No.
No, no.
It was a hard year, yeah.
No, it's, um...
He was, um...
Sorry, I come back.
JEAN MICHEL: I was filming at the time.
It was a horrible day for.. for everybody.
Horrible day.
The weather was very, very, very bad.
It was raining a lot.
Jev was driving on the track, and there was a crash.
Sadly, you know, he's..
Jules lost the control of his car because...
I don't know why. He lost the control of his car,
and.. and his car went under the crane.
JEAN MICHAEL: Jules was like the little brother of Jev.
They were very, very close.
JEAN-ÉRIC: We grew up together in karting.
We were always fighting each other.
We were the two French guy that, you know,
that were gonna make it to Formula 1.
You know, we felt invincible, like nothing can happen to us.
And, um...
I was the car in front of him,
and I nearly had exactly the same thing that he had.
That's why people have seen, you know, a huge change in me
just because now I take nothing for granted.
ANNOUNCER: And we go green in Mexico City!
And we go green in Uruguay!
Piquet's in the wall!
ANNOUNCER 2: Oy!
ANNOUNCER: The Jaguar is in the wall.
As they come through the final corner,
Jean-Éric Vergne wins
and takes the lead of the championship.
- Aah! - Bravo, bravo.
ANNOUNCER: And we go green in Berlin!
It's a decent start from Daniel Abt.
Lucas di Grassi looking to the inside...
Oh, Piquet's throwing it away! ANNOUNCER 2: Again!
That's going to cost him in the standings.
But Lucas di Grassi finishes the race in second place.
Do I sense a comeback?
And Sam Bird hangs on to third place
in the championship.
Nelson Piquet very frustrated with his performance.
The season is really starting to slip away from him.
But Jean-Éric Vergne now leads the championship
with five races to go.
- Spencer. - ALEJANDRO: How you doing?
- Yeah, how are you doing? - My pleasure.
- ALEJANDRO: How're you doing? - Rene. Nice to meet you.
ALEJANDRO: Today we're finally getting our first real look
at the new battery.
- ALEJANDRO: Can we see it or not? - Well, let's see.
I don't know if they're operating there. TECH: If the lid's on.
ALEJANDRO: But we still have to install it in next season's cars
to see if it works.
So this is part of the chassis, actually.
That's part of the structure of the car,
so the battery's.. part of the body of the car is the battery.
TECH: And the technology has allowed to
double the range with the same volume.
ALEJANDRO: So with this battery,
we're going to be able to go twice as far
and much faster.. from 220 to 280 kph.
The dream will be if this can weigh 2 kilos
instead of 300.
And then you take it from your car, you put it in your house,
you charge it on the.. like your mobile phone..
you put it back in your car, and you drive.
That will be a huge breakthrough.
It's interesting. I didn't know that, so he adds more..
- He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. - He adds more pressure.
These guys are gonna do it.
In three years, we need these one in half the size.
TECH: Yeah, okay.
ALEJANDRO: This championship, when we started,
we had to compromise.
Electric racing cars didn't exist.
We had to do one very fast.
So we did the best we could with very little time
and also not so much money.
But now, the moment of truth is coming
to test that battery and see if it works.
And that's a very visible demonstration
of how fast this technology's going,
and it's happening inside Formula E.
...to get back.
So here we have like all the accounting,
lawyers...
HAZEL: Two things that Alejandro had
that made it possible for him to have built the series..
the first is that he is an entrepreneur.
But the other thing is that he's an ex-politician.
ALEJANDRO: Motor racing is my second career.
So my first career, I always loved politics.
SPEAKER: This is a compromise...
ALEJANDRO: When I was 25, I was one of the three aides
of the prime minister of Spain.
28, I got elected.
I was the youngest member of European Parliament ever.
That is when I met my wife.
Her father at the time was prime minister,
so she was the daughter of my boss.
Very quickly, I realized that I had to choose
between my political career or my future wife.
Then I stopped politics.
I resigned from all my positions.
But having had a past in politics
can help you for any profession you do.
Okay, bye.
HAZEL: To negotiate a city center circuit,
you talk to politicians,
and that's something that Alejandro can absolutely do.
There had been no racing in Rome
for a really long time...
certainly no racing in the city center.
And Italy is the home of the Tifosi.
It's the home of Ferrari fans.
So electric racing seemed impossible.
But Alejandro is incredibly sheer bloody-minded,
and if you say, "You can't make electric racing a thing,"
he'll be like, "I will do it, but like three-fold."
No, no, no, no.
Thank you. No, no, no.
Sometimes I try to find a reason
why Formula E has had this really fast growth.
So I got inspired by this thought.
Haven't you noticed how much the people
that travel back in time
worry about the consequences
of what they do when they are in the past
that happen in the present?
I haven't met anyone that went back in time.
But I have seen a few movies
that people go back in time.
I mean, I can think of two right now.
One is obviously "Back to the Future."
The other one is "The Hot Tub Time Machine,"
which I...
think that many of you have seen,
but it's pretty good, actually.
But nobody really thinks the huge consequences
that what we do today can have in the future.
And I always go to the optimistic view.
If something good happens now,
then it can have huge consequences for the future.
ANNOUNCER: And we go green in Rome!
HAZEL: Rome sold out in five minutes.
More and more people were trying to pack crowd
every available corner...
BOTH: Ah!
HAZEL: For every person who says
nobody wants to go to this, nobody wants to watch it,
Rome was like a massive smack in the face.
ANNOUNCER: It looks like it's going to be Sam Bird
as he takes victory in the first Rome ePrix.
ANNOUNCER: Sam Bird!
ANNOUNCER: Sam Bird surprises again.
He's going to launch himself
up into second place
and the championship!
JAMES: Sam Bird is as good as the...
kind of the lower category of drivers in Formula 1.
But he was in contention for the championship
in the junior categories that would have really put him on the map.
And he had a bit of a meltdown.
ANNOUNCER: Sam Bird's been taken out by Oliver Turvey!
This is to stop Sam.
There's Sam.. he's distraught. He's absolutely distraught.
SAM: I didn't come from a super wealthy background
and then spend millions.
My dad had to really sacrifice his and my mum's life.
At one stage, they actually had to remortgage the house.
So...
it was a tough time, tough time.
Tough time, Fish. Wasn't fun.
After that, I became the reserve driver
for Mercedes F1, 2010.
But it's not like they're gonna give me Lewis Hamilton
or Michael Schumacher's car..
"Just go on, then. You.. you race this one."
So I was the reserve. I would go to every race.
I'd do the simulator back in Brackley..
FISHER: What did you do during the races?
I drunk so much coffee every race weekend.
I was the Chief Coffee Drinker in Mercedes Formula 1.
I was sat there on the sidelines for four years
with the team waiting for somebody to say,
"Do you know what?
"Go, get in our car, have a seat.
You are good enough. You're quick enough,"
and it never happened.
FISHER: So now it's basically between you and Jev.
Do you think you can beat him?
I've never not beaten Jev. This would be the first..
If he beats me this season, it would be the first time
he's ever beaten me in a championship.
JEAN-ÉRIC: Ahh...
Oh, I gotta...
Rule number one is very simple.
Be the fastest, start on pole,
win the race, go on the podium,
drink champagne, and redo it again.
Yes, sir.
ANNOUNCER: From the heart of the City of Lights,
Paris, France,
this is round number 9 of 12.
ANDRÉ: He's the man this year.
I keep telling you, man, it's your year.
He can do it.
He was awesome with me at the beginning of the championship,
so he'll have all my help.
Um...I don't know. And I'm not gonna tell the TV,
'cause then he might watch it.
ANNOUNCER: Championship leader Jean-Éric Vergne on pole position.
Sam Bird right behind in the number two spot.
And we go green in Paris!
And André Lotterer is causing trouble for Sam Bird
from the start.
ANNOUNCER 2: Seven laps complete here in Paris,
Jean-Éric Vergne and Sam Bird have pulled away
by over a second over André Lotterer.
Lotterer may not be close enough to make a pass,
but he's certainly close enough to fill up Sam Bird's mirrors.
ANNOUNCER: Look how close Lotterer is.
He's right there.
That's a bold move from André Lotterer.
Sends it.. is it gonna get a stop..
Oh, the two clunk into each other.
SAM: Ridiculous move. Ridiculous.
ANNOUNCER: And it is Jean-Éric Vergne,
the Parisian leading the way
on a four-second margin over André Lotterer
in second place.
And Lucas di Grassi is in third.
But now here comes di Grassi.
Lotterer does not want to let di Grassi through.
He's bumping into di Grassi!
ANNOUNCER 2: Lotterer's protecting his teammate,
I think, at this point.
NARRATOR: Going into the final lap.
Di Grassi has got more energy.
Can Lotterer even make it to the end
because he's got such little energy remaining!
DRIVER: Did Lotterer run out of energy?
ANNOUNCER: Jean-Éric Vergne! The Parisian wins in Paris!
Bird is in third, but he hasn't got a front right wheel!
Then he run out of energy, like with you,
I went to overtake him, and he again did like this.
Without energy. Why would he do that?
HAZEL: Lucas will trash talk anyone,
but I have never seen Sam Bird angry.
He was really furious with André.
I don't know what you guys thought of it,
but you can't.. you can't change direction
when a car is much quicker than you like that.
If you've run out of energy, tough, you know?
You can't just do what he did, so...
I'm disappointed by that, by his driving standard
and I'm disappointed I've destroyed the car,
but I'm happy with the podium.
Ah, yes!
Bonjour.
FISHER: Nelson, what happened with you in Paris?
NELSON: It's been a tough year for me.
It just takes a tiny bit of something
for things not to go right,
and it can go down very quickly, you know?
I was really pushing hard in first practice
and then lost control of the car
on a very quick corner and hit on the wall.
I'm really sorry for that.
Not a big happens, but unfortunately,
the wheel hit the tub,
and that's the worst thing that can happen.
When that happens, they tell you you have to change the whole tub,
and literally, they have to do it in, like, four hours.
And then, to make it worse...
Went out, second practice.
Pushed really hard again and then...
I brushed the wall again. I can't believe this.
Can I damage the tire and just come in?
TECH: Uh, stop where you are. We need the tires.
NELSON: It was one of the most stressful moments
in.. in my life.
The problem is, I had all my guys fixing the first car.
Now we had the second car that was damaged,
and we had to get it ready for qualifying,
and we didn't manage.
You wanna hide in a hole at that point.
You don't want to look at anybody and just..
just go black.
Like, I couldn't say that, you know,
personal life, either racing at this moment
is going very well for me, so, um...
FISHER: Personal life not either?
Well, like I said, I mean, it's not like, you know,
when these things happen, I have the support of my dad.
He's there and this and that, you know?
FISHER: Has your dad come to see you race in this series?
He's never been to a Formula E race.
FISHER: Wow. And you've invited him?
NELSON: Yeah, I.. I.. When I won the championship in London,
I begged him to come to the last race,
'cause he was in Europe, actually,
and, uh, he said, "I have to go back to Brazil,"
and, uh, so, it was.. I got.. I got pretty upset
because of that because I won the championship
and it would have been great to have him there.
But it is what it is.
SAM: I simply have to beat Jean-Éric Vergne this weekend.
And if I don't, the championship's done.
Thank you. Good luck.
SAM: We probably don't have the speed and efficiency of his car.
but he's had the cleanest season you can imagine.
There's three races to go.
Something has gotta happen.
JEAN-ÉRIC: People tell me they impressed
to see me being calm and everything,
but the truth is, I'm fucking dead right now.
I'm wasted.
But you have to keep pushing.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to Zurich,
race 10 of 12.
It's time for qualifying.
It's all about the fastest lap to decide
which driver will start at the front of the grid for the race.
You get one lap up to get that pole position.
HAZEL: The pole position in most sport,
and the end of the day, you start the furthest forward.
You are ahead from the very start of the race.
ANNOUNCER: So here comes Jean-Éric Vergne,
the master of sticking that car on pole.
HAZEL: Jev has always been good at taking poles
in Formula E,
but he's an emotional driver.
ANNOUNCER: Jean-Éric Vergne, the man with eight pole positions
in Formula E to his name.
This is his qualifying run,
and the rear wheel is getting off the ground
as he swings into the first corner.
ANNOUNCER 2: ...right up against the wall.
ANNOUNCER: He's slower than Felix Rosenqvist,
though, in sector one.
Also slower than Daniel Abt.
Very uncharacteristic for Vergne.
ANNOUNCER: Across the line comes the Frenchman
half a second behind Sam Bird.
Can't see him starting in the top ten with that.
ANNOUNCER 2: Look at him shaking his head.
That's not just the bumps.
ANNOUNCER: The worst ever Formula E qualifying performance
for Jean-Éric Vergne, the championship leader.
ANNOUNCER 3: He seemed disappointed and frustrated,
Jean-Éric Vergne...
There you go. That's a racing driver.
No.. we're feeling the frustration.
ANNOUNCER: It's Mitch Evans on pole position,
Lotterer alongside him on the front row.
Third place man is Sam Bird.
He trails 17th place man Jean-Éric Vergne by...
HAZEL: I'm sure it was very frustrating for Jev.
ANNOUNCER: And we go green in Zurich!
It is a good start from Lotterer on the run down...
HAZEL: I'm sure he was cursing himself and the team
- and everything else. - ANNOUNCER: He's had to come across.
The checkered flag falls!
Di Grassi wins the first motor race in Switzerland
for 64 years!
Sam Bird across the line in second.
It's tenth place for Jean-Éric Vergne.
He had a Forty-point lead at the top of the championship.
It has been slashed to 23.
ANNOUNCER 2: The little guy's still in contention.
Sam Bird's still in contention.
JEAN-ÉRIC: Merci.
FISHER: So that was a tough race for you, huh, Jev?
I guess as soon as I leave this country,
I will feel better.
FISHER: So you guys have a three-week break,
and now you're gonna do a different race?
JEAN-ÉRIC: We're going to Le Mans.
It's a full week of racing.
FISHER: Are you rooting for each other?
Yeah, sure, I mean, I'm..
I look what he's doing, and..
Guess he's.. not rooting for me.
ANDRÉ: You gonna laugh in a bit.
There's this.. the most dedicated fan
you can ever imagine.
She's been my fan since.. I mean, she's from Japan.
She comes to all the races all the way from Japan.
She's like, "I'm going to Le Mans.
I take the night train or the bus."
I'm thinking...we have two seats, right, in the jet.
I'm like, "Just come with us."
This is Sanhe.
My number one fan.
ANDRÉ: Oh, yeah, coffee.
He.. he gets moody, huh?
Well, I told him that.
When you're in a bad mood, man, it's...
He's younger, you know.
The difference between us is almost ten years,
and my career is made.
I was probably a bit more like that before, too,
when...stuff wouldn't go my way and, uh,
you get robbed from things and it's..
it's just intense, it's..
You live it super strong, and so, um...
I understand. It's fine.
It's just...it's better when you know someone
because if you don't know someone
you're thinking, "What a dick is that person," right?
But I know exactly, so it's fine.
Hi, guys.
FISHER: Whoa! What happened to your eye?
This guy came with this T-shirt last night.
It said, "I love fossil fuel."
He sit next to me, he start saying something..
what the fuck, whatever.. and throws a cha..
breaks a champagne glass on my face.
Freak.
Fossil fuel freak.
This is really incredible.
We go to New York exactly with the same differential points
between first and second that we did last year
going to Montreal to the last race.
And in the last race, we saw what happen.
Lucas was second 23 points behind
and won the championship.
So Sam Bird could really now win the championship.
I think what's gonna be really tough for Jev
is the mental pressure.
SAM: Every single year,
I go into the championship at the end
and.. and I'm there and I'm fighting.
But I've never...
I've never really.. I've never won it.
I'm always a fucking bridesmaid,
and I'm a bit sick of it.
Now, I know that this is gonna be tough this weekend.
Like, I need him
to have a shit Saturday.
That's what I need to really take it to Sunday
and for it to be really interesting.
And I'm pretty sure André's gonna be helping Jev.
Those two work as a team.
FISHER: Is it weird
that it's you against your former teammate?
SAM: Yeah, we had.. we had a tough relationship.
Two years ago, I was still fighting for third
in the championship,
and Jev got in front of me.
ANNOUNCER: And Sam Bird now is trying to get past Jean-Éric Vergne.
SAM: And I desperately needed to finish ahead of Jev
so I could have stayed third in the championship.
ANNOUNCER: Tell him to get out of the way.
And I felt like he was told to move over,
and he didn't.
ANNOUNCER: Oh, here's a move.. on the inside goes Bird,
and the two DS Virgin guys hit each other.
JEAN-ÉRIC: What the hell was he doing?
-And then chaos broke out after the race.
I'm calling him fucking this and fucking that
and he's calling me the same.
And we didn't speak for the rest of the season.
TECH: You ready? JEAN-ÉRIC: Yeah, ready.
TECH: Here we go.
FISHER: What was it like to be a teammate of Sam Bird?
Ooh. TECH: Ha ha ha ha.
JEAN-ÉRIC: The truth is, I've been in the dark place
for a while, you know, in the last few years.
But I realize the difference between
wanting it badly
or really wanting it at any cost...
as bad as you fucking wanna breathe.
ANNOUNCER: Probably safe to say there has never been
a more important qualifying session
than what we're about to see.
Jean-Éric Vergne can clinch the driver's title today.
Sam Bird cannot. He hopes only to move it
to the final race of the season tomorrow.
ANNOUNCER: Now here comes Jean-Éric Vergne
on his qualifying lap.
First sector times coming through.
- TECH: 28.6 - ANNOUNCER: That's a good first sector for Vergne.
Fasters first and second sectors
for Jean-Éric Vergne.
And Vergne is quickest!
Jean-Éric Vergne has taken a huge step
- in sealing the Formula E title. - Wow.
ANNOUNCER: Astonishing news
- from the stewards. - ANNOUNCER 2: I cannot believe that it is.
ANNOUNCER: Bob, I can't even bring myself to say it.
ANNOUNCER 2: Jean-Éric Vergne
has had all of his qualifying times
canceled by the stewards... ANNOUNCER: Ohh...
ANNOUNCER 2: For exceeding
the allowable 200 kilowatts of energy.
ANNOUNCER: So he used more than he is allowed to use.
And that was part of a software upgrade
they just sort of assumed it would be fine.
ANNOUNCER 2: Yeah, and it wasn't.
I don't know, but...
FISHER: Jev is pissed, man.
Oh, yeah, I would be killing everyone.
FISHER: And he went after Alberto, too.
Yeah, he.. drivers, when they're nervous
and they're, you know.. He's now saying,
"Oh, you want me to lose" and you want me to this and that,
but that's, you know, that's the..
You know, these drivers sometimes are like little babies.
Yeah. Big mistake from the team.
It's okay. It's gonna be a fun race.
We start last.
ANNOUNCER: And this is it.
The cars are lining up.
Championship leader Jean-Éric Vergne
starts 18th on the grid.
If Vergne then goes on to finish in sixth place,
he wins the title today.
That is a big ask on a circuit like this.
Surely, this championship
will go down to the wire tomorrow.
And we go green in New York City!
Bird is up to 12th place and past Antonio Felix da Costa.
Bird making his progress,
and Vergne still last.
What is going on with Vergne at the back?
Here we go then.
This is where it gets very, very busy
in the pit lane.
Jean-Éric Vergne coming in.
Jean-Éric Vergne has a lot of ground to cover
if he's going to seal the championship today.
TECH: Strategy 24, Jev.
ANNOUNCER: Jev has gained a few spots.
He's up in 16th now.
Sam Bird up inside of Nico Prost.
Decisive move from the Englishman,
and that is one place gained up into 9th.
Here's André Lotterer going past at a clip.
ANNOUNCER 2: Oh, if you're Sam Bird,
you look in the mirror and you see André Lotterer
you think, "Oh, crikey!"
ANNOUNCER: And here comes Lotterer on Bird.
Pushes Sam Bird down to tenth place.
Look at that.. he's slowing him up as well.
This is gonna be a tough weekend now
for Sam Bird.
Here comes Jean-Éric Vergne,
and he is carving his way through the back.
Jev has advanced all the way to ninth!
I tell you what..
this is a different Jean-Éric Vergne.
He's handling the pressure so well.
Lotterer then, ahead of Bird.
Ahead of Lynn, ahead of Vergne in that black dog, Techeetah.
Jev up the inside of Alex Lynn!
And now he's right behind Sam Bird.
That's a horrible feeling.. you look in the mirror
and you see the championship contender,
the guy you do not want to see gaining on you.
And here comes Jean-Éric Vergne
up the inside of Sam Bird.
And he's through!
SAM: Hey, there's not much I can do. We're just not efficient.
ANNOUNCER: So Jean-Éric Vergne now seventh place.
Only one spot away
from where he needs to be to take the title.
And the man in that position
is his teammate André Lotterer.
And Lotterer slows down to let his teammate pass.
The checkered flag falls!
Jean-Éric Vergne across the line in fifth place!
Seals the season four Formula E championship!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Ah!
God, it feels good.
Ahh!
REPORTER: I'm here with Sam Bird.
Sam, so close. So close.
One, two, three...
ALL: Jev!
FISHER: How important is winning?
Winning is, uh...
that's what we're there for, it's the only reason.
Everybody, the whole paddock is there
just for that single guy who's gonna win the race.
When I was young and I finished second,
my dad would say, "Oh, here's our first loser."
You know? There's only one winner,
and he goes home victorious.
The world is gonna change.
The world has to change to a more sustainable
way of living.
The energy won't be coming from oil.
And combustion energy is for sure going to die.
The question is when?
DILBAGH: Okay, guys. Good to go.
Are we gonna be quick enough to save the plan..
I mean.. by the way, "save the planet" isn't a question.
The planet is not in danger.
What is in danger is the humans in the planet.
Planet doesn't care if we're here or not.
But are we gonna be on time to save the planet
as a.. as a..
as a good place for humans to live?
That is the question.
Cool, huh?