Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-220.233.18.203-20141114235742/@comment-26715739-20151014085319

RR3 Michael P wrote: Formula E has been mentioned a few times, formula-e calendar has Beijing, China, Round 1 24 October 2015

If we do get the release next Monday/Tuesday (19th/20th) then the next Formula E event is a little earlier in the release than they normally look to coincide with the event they're basing it off.

For Le Mans (PoV) the release was 2nd June and the real event 13/14th June (ie 2 weekends later).

For NASCAR the release was 31st August and the real event was 12th September (ie 2 weekends later).

I'm guessing they want to try to milk the publicity of the tie-in - and there's probably a spike in usage (and people getting the update) on weekends so they need to give that sort of lead time.

A shame that the timing doesn't look like it quite works as the Formula E event would be a good one for them to target the Chinese market on (having just had a release targetted at the US market). Would probably be a good tie-in for Formula E as well. May still happen - but for me the timing looks a bit shaky.