Motor racing proper - as opposed to short-oval competition, that is - had been absent from London since the Crystal Palace circuit shut its doors almost exactly 50 years ago. It would take until 2015 to return when the maiden season of Formula E climaxed with a thrilling double-header in Battersea Park.
Yet to get to the first E-Prix in London, the net had been cast far and wide, and was again twice over: once when the Thames-side venue was in peril ahead of year two of the British FE fixture; and then after its enforced disappearance from the schedule after that second edition.
