Finding Formula E with James Barclay
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
James Barclay was appointed team director for Jaguar's Formula E programme in November 2015 and he has been responsible for managing the exciting return to motorsport in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship for the British brand. Over the last six years, James has overseen the growth of Jaguar TCS Racing into a race-winning team, thanks to the team's first Formula E win at the Rome E-Prix in April 2019. Jaguar's first international motorsport victory since 1991. Since then, the team have secured three further wins, the first double podium for Jaguar in more than 30 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Plus Podcast. Now we get, I think, |
| 0:21.0 | fascinating people on this series. I'm really amazed at the people we can get on here |
| 0:28.1 | and there are occasional episodes where I learn a great deal about a topic that I sort of think |
| 0:35.0 | I know about but then I realise I don't because when we're talking to people who are really embedded |
| 0:39.0 | in those areas, it's fascinating. So just a very brief bit of background which I think I do |
| 0:43.6 | explain very briefly on this episode. I did quite a lot of filming for British TV |
| 0:50.5 | camping ITV and now I work it out. I think it's 2015 about Formula E, the Formula E racing |
| 0:59.6 | racing thing. But before it started, so I was doing stuff about the motors and the batteries and |
| 1:05.7 | the technology behind it. And it was very early days then and what we're going to learn today is |
| 1:12.1 | how far and how fast that has developed and how internationally popular it is. And I think it's |
| 1:19.3 | kind of gone under the radar a bit in the UK. It's very big in other parts of the world because |
| 1:25.2 | there was a period of time when they didn't have any races in the UK and it's not on terrestrial |
| 1:30.8 | television. You have to be a kind of enthusiast. If you're not actually live at the actual race, |
| 1:37.0 | then you've got to kind of know where to find the footage. You can follow them online easily. |
| 1:41.4 | But from this year, Channel 4 in the UK and then many terrestrial broadcasters around the world |
| 1:47.5 | are broadcasting the Formula E races. And I think that's going to make a really big difference. |
| 1:52.0 | It's going to lift the kind of general public awareness because what you will learn in this |
| 1:56.8 | episode is how, you know, and this is what I've tried to focus on, is the connection between |
| 2:03.6 | motor racing, which is, you know, an expensive sport. It has a direct relevance to the cars that we |
| 2:12.4 | drive on the road. And that's, you know, lots of people in the kind of motor industry and |
| 2:17.2 | motor racing know that. And that's not new to Formula E. It's Formula One, all that sort of |
| 2:23.8 | motor racing. A lot of the technology that is completely normal now, anti-lock brakes, disc brakes, |
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