Inside Sport

Darcey Lingley has spent 10 years building Formula E's premium hospitality experience, the Emotion Club, an open-plan space designed to get thought leaders, celebrities, teams and partners actually talking to each other rather than sitting behind closed doors. In this episode, Darcey walks us through what goes into curating that experience end-to-end: from a culinary island with a local sushi partner, to brand ambassadors who know every VIP by name, to a soon-to-launch e-commerce platform for guest bookings and even facial-recognition entry as a wish-list item for the future. It's a look at how Formula E turns hospitality into an extension of its brand, and of the cities it races in, one detail at a time. Episode recorded in February 2025.

Agus Delicado is Formula E's VP of Race Operations, but 11 years ago he was a trumpet teacher who'd just applied for a job at an ice cream factory and ended up designing racetracks for a brand new championship instead. Starting as a junior track and overlay coordinator in Formula E's very first season, he helped build the discipline from a scrappy 10-race debut into a global sport, working street-by-street with cities like Paris and Jeddah to shut down roads with minimal disruption, and adapting circuits for every new generation of race car, including this year's Gen3 Evo, now the fastest-accelerating race car on the planet. In this episode, Agus takes us through eleven years of Formula E's evolution: the diplomacy of racing through city centres, the culture of a startup-turned-global-championship, and what actually keeps him up the night before a race. Episode recorded in February 2025.

Kai Hockley is part of the Emirates GBR team, going through the internship programme with a goal of driving one of the F50s one day very soon! The programme he's a part of is a core part of SailGP's future, providing opportunity to young people who may otherwise never have considered a career in sailing and upskilling them alongside the teams.

Jos Hopeson's role as the Global Ticketing Manager is in equal parts fun and challenging. She speaks about setting up stadiums on waterside locations, creative fan zone activations and on-water view experiences!

Tom Herbert-Evans is the Youth Program Manager at SailGP. Working closely with schools and communities within all the locations the race calendar takes them, with the purpose to inspire future generations into sailing and other support roles.

Fiona Morgan is the Chief Purpose Officer at SailGP. Over the past 4 years she has developed the Impact League, an innovation never seen before in sport, written into the rules that all teams must take part in to ensure they compete but with the planet and the future in mind!

We take a walk around the Tech Site at the top of Season 5 in Dubai.

Catching up with some of the SailGP team at the start of Season 5, the first race in Dubai!