The FIA Formula E Championship hit the streets of Beijing in September 2014 and after 11 races in ten cities around the world, Brazil’s Nelson Piquet Jr was crowned the first champion after a title battle with France’s Sebastien Buemi that went down to the wire at the season finale in London June 2015.

E.dams-Renault claimed the team title as six squads took victories over the course of the first season. Buemi took the most wins with three triumphs, while he tied with Andretti Formula E’s Jean-Eric Vergne for the most pole positions with three each.

With 5.2 billion social media interactions, the all-electric series also took communicating with fans to a new level. This included the FanBoost concept where the three most popular drivers received a temporary power boost twice per race. Piquet proved to be the most popular driver with six fanboosts, followed by France’s Vergne with five and Brazil’s Bruno Senna with four.

As well as getting 361,500 people watching the action trackside, Formula E was also a hit on TV V with a cumulative global audience of 190.3m.