There's some motor sport on ITV4 this evening at 7pm.  It's a new race series, taking place partly in the off season on (mainly) new pure roads tracks and culminating in a show piece finale somewhere in the British Isles.

Sounds a bit like the proposed TT World Series doesn't it but it isn't.  It's essentially an electric version of F1 and it's got me wondering...

While it's a car series, there's only so much commercial interest (sponsorship etc) to go around, so will the TT World Series be too late to the party and have to try and pick up the crumbs or will it go the other way and open up interest in something else?

Comparing it to the constantly stuttering TTxGP/TT Zero, which steadfastly refuses to grow, Formula E has a decent sized grid and has already been to the far east and South America.  There are two races in the states and then they go to Europe culminating in races in Monaco and London.  There are some big gun sponsors involved and it all looks very professional.  Contrast this with the chaotic birth of TTxGP and the ridiculous nonsense that was spouted by the organisation in question.  This is the difference between people who know how to organise motor sport and those that don't.

So, will Formula E step on the TT World Series or not and will it open up interest in electric bike racing or not?