
For a man used to running 100 metres in less than 10 seconds, Usain Bolt found himself going a bit quicker than usual ahead of Formula E’s season-opener earlier this month.
The eight-time Olympic gold medal winner was the all-electric championship’s star attraction in Mexico City as he took to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez aboard the Genbeta car – an uprated version of the current Gen3 machine. All organised as part of a publicity stunt, there’s no denying that having the world’s fastest man in the world’s fastest electric single-seater certainly had a nice ring to it.