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Gallery: Formula E racer hoons about on an ice cap

Lucas di Grassi pilots Formula E car on the Greenland ice cap

  • “Formula E wants to raise the awareness and wants to promote the use of electric cars,” Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag says. “We think that electric cars are one way to fight climate change and the best connection was to race this car here on the ice cap. If all cars in the world were electric this ice would be much bigger."

    And so the premise was set: Brazilian racing maestro Lucas di Grassi would pilot the battery-powered Formula E car on the world's second largest ice sheet, all in the name of climate change. And, well, some light drifting and donuting.

    “I tested on an ice rink near London but otherwise you cannot prepare for this,” says the F1 and Le Mans veteran. “I never thought in my wildest dreams that I could be able to drive a race car on the ice cap. I had a lot of fun, drifting around and snow flying and ice flying, it was pretty cool. There was actually a lot of grip. We were able to do everything we planned to.

    “It’s just such a beautiful, peaceful place and really to come here and see all the icebergs, see the ice cap, how huge it is, and how the effect of global warming are really melting it, gives me a completely different perception and understanding of what we’re doing with Formula E and the importance of driving electric cars.”

    Have a click through the pics to see how it went down...

    Photography: Will Gray/Formula E

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  • “Formula E wants to raise the awareness and wants to promote the use of electric cars,” Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag says. “We think that electric cars are one way to fight climate change and the best connection was to race this car here on the ice cap. If all cars in the world were electric this ice would be much bigger."

    And so the premise was set: Brazilian racing maestro Lucas di Grassi would pilot the battery-powered Formula E car on the world's second largest ice sheet, all in the name of climate change. And, well, some light drifting and donuting.

    “I tested on an ice rink near London but otherwise you cannot prepare for this,” says the F1 and Le Mans veteran. “I never thought in my wildest dreams that I could be able to drive a race car on the ice cap. I had a lot of fun, drifting around and snow flying and ice flying, it was pretty cool. There was actually a lot of grip. We were able to do everything we planned to.

    “It’s just such a beautiful, peaceful place and really to come here and see all the icebergs, see the ice cap, how huge it is, and how the effect of global warming are really melting it, gives me a completely different perception and understanding of what we’re doing with Formula E and the importance of driving electric cars.”

    Have a click through the pics to see how it went down...

  • “Formula E wants to raise the awareness and wants to promote the use of electric cars,” Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag says. “We think that electric cars are one way to fight climate change and the best connection was to race this car here on the ice cap. If all cars in the world were electric this ice would be much bigger."

    And so the premise was set: Brazilian racing maestro Lucas di Grassi would pilot the battery-powered Formula E car on the world's second largest ice sheet, all in the name of climate change. And, well, some light drifting and donuting.

    “I tested on an ice rink near London but otherwise you cannot prepare for this,” says the F1 and Le Mans veteran. “I never thought in my wildest dreams that I could be able to drive a race car on the ice cap. I had a lot of fun, drifting around and snow flying and ice flying, it was pretty cool. There was actually a lot of grip. We were able to do everything we planned to.

    “It’s just such a beautiful, peaceful place and really to come here and see all the icebergs, see the ice cap, how huge it is, and how the effect of global warming are really melting it, gives me a completely different perception and understanding of what we’re doing with Formula E and the importance of driving electric cars.”

    Have a click through the pics to see how it went down...

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  • “Formula E wants to raise the awareness and wants to promote the use of electric cars,” Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag says. “We think that electric cars are one way to fight climate change and the best connection was to race this car here on the ice cap. If all cars in the world were electric this ice would be much bigger."

    And so the premise was set: Brazilian racing maestro Lucas di Grassi would pilot the battery-powered Formula E car on the world's second largest ice sheet, all in the name of climate change. And, well, some light drifting and donuting.

    “I tested on an ice rink near London but otherwise you cannot prepare for this,” says the F1 and Le Mans veteran. “I never thought in my wildest dreams that I could be able to drive a race car on the ice cap. I had a lot of fun, drifting around and snow flying and ice flying, it was pretty cool. There was actually a lot of grip. We were able to do everything we planned to.

    “It’s just such a beautiful, peaceful place and really to come here and see all the icebergs, see the ice cap, how huge it is, and how the effect of global warming are really melting it, gives me a completely different perception and understanding of what we’re doing with Formula E and the importance of driving electric cars.”

    Have a click through the pics to see how it went down...

  • “Formula E wants to raise the awareness and wants to promote the use of electric cars,” Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag says. “We think that electric cars are one way to fight climate change and the best connection was to race this car here on the ice cap. If all cars in the world were electric this ice would be much bigger."

    And so the premise was set: Brazilian racing maestro Lucas di Grassi would pilot the battery-powered Formula E car on the world's second largest ice sheet, all in the name of climate change. And, well, some light drifting and donuting.

    “I tested on an ice rink near London but otherwise you cannot prepare for this,” says the F1 and Le Mans veteran. “I never thought in my wildest dreams that I could be able to drive a race car on the ice cap. I had a lot of fun, drifting around and snow flying and ice flying, it was pretty cool. There was actually a lot of grip. We were able to do everything we planned to.

    “It’s just such a beautiful, peaceful place and really to come here and see all the icebergs, see the ice cap, how huge it is, and how the effect of global warming are really melting it, gives me a completely different perception and understanding of what we’re doing with Formula E and the importance of driving electric cars.”

    Have a click through the pics to see how it went down...

  • “Formula E wants to raise the awareness and wants to promote the use of electric cars,” Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag says. “We think that electric cars are one way to fight climate change and the best connection was to race this car here on the ice cap. If all cars in the world were electric this ice would be much bigger."

    And so the premise was set: Brazilian racing maestro Lucas di Grassi would pilot the battery-powered Formula E car on the world's second largest ice sheet, all in the name of climate change. And, well, some light drifting and donuting.

    “I tested on an ice rink near London but otherwise you cannot prepare for this,” says the F1 and Le Mans veteran. “I never thought in my wildest dreams that I could be able to drive a race car on the ice cap. I had a lot of fun, drifting around and snow flying and ice flying, it was pretty cool. There was actually a lot of grip. We were able to do everything we planned to.

    “It’s just such a beautiful, peaceful place and really to come here and see all the icebergs, see the ice cap, how huge it is, and how the effect of global warming are really melting it, gives me a completely different perception and understanding of what we’re doing with Formula E and the importance of driving electric cars.”

    Have a click through the pics to see how it went down...

  • “Formula E wants to raise the awareness and wants to promote the use of electric cars,” Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag says. “We think that electric cars are one way to fight climate change and the best connection was to race this car here on the ice cap. If all cars in the world were electric this ice would be much bigger."

    And so the premise was set: Brazilian racing maestro Lucas di Grassi would pilot the battery-powered Formula E car on the world's second largest ice sheet, all in the name of climate change. And, well, some light drifting and donuting.

    “I tested on an ice rink near London but otherwise you cannot prepare for this,” says the F1 and Le Mans veteran. “I never thought in my wildest dreams that I could be able to drive a race car on the ice cap. I had a lot of fun, drifting around and snow flying and ice flying, it was pretty cool. There was actually a lot of grip. We were able to do everything we planned to.

    “It’s just such a beautiful, peaceful place and really to come here and see all the icebergs, see the ice cap, how huge it is, and how the effect of global warming are really melting it, gives me a completely different perception and understanding of what we’re doing with Formula E and the importance of driving electric cars.”

    Have a click through the pics to see how it went down...

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  • “Formula E wants to raise the awareness and wants to promote the use of electric cars,” Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag says. “We think that electric cars are one way to fight climate change and the best connection was to race this car here on the ice cap. If all cars in the world were electric this ice would be much bigger."

    And so the premise was set: Brazilian racing maestro Lucas di Grassi would pilot the battery-powered Formula E car on the world's second largest ice sheet, all in the name of climate change. And, well, some light drifting and donuting.

    “I tested on an ice rink near London but otherwise you cannot prepare for this,” says the F1 and Le Mans veteran. “I never thought in my wildest dreams that I could be able to drive a race car on the ice cap. I had a lot of fun, drifting around and snow flying and ice flying, it was pretty cool. There was actually a lot of grip. We were able to do everything we planned to.

    “It’s just such a beautiful, peaceful place and really to come here and see all the icebergs, see the ice cap, how huge it is, and how the effect of global warming are really melting it, gives me a completely different perception and understanding of what we’re doing with Formula E and the importance of driving electric cars.”

    Have a click through the pics to see how it went down...

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