I would like to see this electric car racing take a different direction - imagine if you could press a button on the dash and have your car emulate any of many open wheel single seater cars of the past.

Just getting started?

Try the 'Formula Challenge Japan' mode or maybe give an F2 car from the 1970's a spin.

If you get really brave then you could put it into one of those Red Bull F1 car modes.

You could have all the characteristics of each car ported over from a simulator/game but be out on the track.

As well as this open seater 'Formula E' with a difference there could also be a normal car with things like a roof and passenger seating, this could be electric and simulate any number of cars. Porsche GT3 RS?

Fine. There could be a fake manual gearbox, fake RPM redline and all of that exhaust noise nonsense also simulated.

Or maybe you would like to see what it is like to go round the track in a retro Ferrari 275 with a big V12 singing away.

Perhaps the next lap could be tried in Testarossa mode, with the Miami Vice Classic car simulated.

Or maybe you wondered what those Group B rally cars were really like, so you could just go into 'Lancia Delta Integrale mode' and not have the 'benefit' of a tank full of gasoline underneath one's seat.

Perhaps petrol could be faked too, a smell created that does not have the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons but gives the 'garage' impression.

As well as being greener, such simulator-cars would also be easier and cheaper to maintain than a fleet of ICE race cars. This would make track day racing more fun and accessible.