MINI Becomes the Official Safety Car of Formula E

This is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:

This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on March 30th, 2021 in the Car Culture category.

 

Here's the i8 it's replacing:



Although the concept of an open-top Safety Car seems a bit off to me I much prefer this to the MINI.

Granted, a Safety Car is primarily a marketing thing these days in most sports and so long as it can go fast enough to not trouble the drivers it's fine.

 

Missed opportunity in not calling it the “Min-E”

 

It looks like a taxi from Blade Runner.

 

Is this MINI safety car a "safe" car?

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