Sirotkin completes Formula E test

Former Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin has passed his Formula E test by completing his first race. 

Sergey Sirotkin opened up on racing in Formula E.

"There is no doubt that such a challenging, competitive championship with the state-of-the-art technology of Formula E is a racing championship we need to pay a close attention to," Sirotkin said to pitpass.com. 

"Even before the test we started to collect more information about this championship and realized that its level, technical and engineering systems and tracks are more complicated than it seemed at the beginning," he continued. "During the last two weeks and especially during the day I spent in this car, my opinion totally changed.

"This car is much faster than you might think. Considering it does not have much aerodynamics as the ones in Formula 1, basically its power is more than enough. (The) tracks are very narrow, without any run-outs, so you need to attack very close to the walls that makes the race even more interesting. Personally, I really enjoyed driving this car and, I should say, much more than many other cars that I got a chance to try besides main Formula championships.

"The test was not flawless," he admits, "there were some technical difficulties and the team needed some time to fix the problems. During the morning session, we had two short races - just to move things along forward and to test the waters. In the afternoon we had the same problems and could not set up everything perfectly during qualifying - there were some difficulties with the traffic."

It is obvious that Formula E is a really hard competition to race in. Felipe Massa opened up recently about the struggle switching from Formula 1 to Formula E.