To take it back to the roots of Roborace, when you first started this project did you imagine that you’d go for something like Devbot as it is now, where it has to be mechanically operated as an LMP3 car, that is a driveable LMP3 or or did you think you’d go straight into the Robocars?

When it first started, the original idea is to use motorsport to advance technology – that’s what motor racing has been used for before. The other side of it is that you need to be able to engage the public – and that’s one of the things that motorsport is struggling to do – it’s a great challenge. Formula E’s doing a great job of building a new base for motorsport, Formula 1’s changing now to try and retain its base.

But you have to have an entertainment proposition and you have to be able to inspire the public and that’s why they created Robocar, that’s why Daniel Simon came on board to do that part. You then have the engineering elements of that, so you have to go from a 3D rendering to a manufacture-level product, that takes time. And during that process, what we created was Devbot. So while we were waiting for the final designs, in that period between concept design and product we created Devbot as a development vehicle to test out the concepts that were going into Robocar. So: four wheel drive powertrain, sensor suite, the computer architecture, is all identical on Devbot to Robocar.