Formula E will return to London this weekend for the first time since 2016. If you will be watching it for the first time, there’s plenty to get your head around–not least the slightly convoluted qualifying format.
The main qualifying session lasts one hour. There’s nothing complicated there, you might think, but there is: the 24-car field is split into four groups of six, defined by their positions in the championship. Within the hour, each driver has just six minutes to seta time, and the six fastest from the four groups combined then go through to the one-at-a-time Super Pole shootout session.