It's been only two days but I've been really surprised and delighted by how much progress the project has made already; we are halfway towards reaching our first goal of 100 supporters, which will give us a much-needed time extension. I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has helped share this project to get the message out there; I'm doing everything I can to get the word out myself and it's really a great feeling to see people responding so positively and trying to help me out, even if it's just through feedback.

Now I haven't yet got anything too major to show you all in terms of developments to the idea, although I am currently mid-way through designing a Roborace prototype just for fun (Once we get near to 100 I will share it in the next update) before I move on to starting work on the Team pit Garage and FanBoost board ideas. However I do know that although this is a Formula E project a lot of my supporters are big F1 fans so I thought I'd share some special F1 car designs I've made.

You might recognise these cars from the film Rush (15+, so not really for kids) which came out in 2013. I originally created both of these cars for a Lego Stopmotion recreation of one of the film's trailers, which was fun to make and got a fair few hits on YouTube, and since then I spent some time developing the models so they could be even more accurate. These cars are:

Left) McLaren M23, as driven by James Hunt during the 1976 Formula 1 season. This car went through various iterations during the 1970's, however this is the version that was made the most famous by charasmatic British driver James Hunt, who won 6 races and clawed back a 35 point gap to win the 1976 F1 Drivers championship by a single point after a dramatic final round in Fuji, Japan. Very sadly James later lost his life in 1993, but the car is shown here being driven by his son Freddie to mark the 40th anniversary of his father's success.

Right) Ferrari 312T, as driven by Niki Lauda during the 1975 and 1976 Formula 1 seasons. Another car that went through various different versions during the decade, this one is the version that was driven throughout 1975 and for the first three races of 1976 by Austrian Niki Lauda. In this car Lauda won 5 races and the drivers world championship in 1975, before winning a further 2 more races in it at the start of 1976. In the 312T2 version of this car Lauda had a fiery crash at the Nurburgring which left him badly burned and hospitalised, but 42 days later he made an incredible recovery and competed in the Italian Grand Prix, finishing 4th despite being in intense pain, and taking the championship fight down to the very last race in Fuji, Japan, where Lauda chose to forfeit in dangerous monsoon rain. Lauda is still involved in Motorsport today; currently he is the non-executive chairman of the current defending champions in Formula One, the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy these two bonus designs, (who knows, maybe they will pop up in a new ideas set of mine in the future) and if you haven't done so already please support my Lego Formula E set idea, and share it to your friends and family via social media and word of mouth. I really appreciate all the support given to me so far; it really means the world to me.

Here's to the next 50 supporters,

Ed.