Lucas Di Grassi believes that the current fanboost voting system should be changed to social media votes only to avoid the possibility of anyone buying votes for fanboost to manipulate the result.

There has been an ongoing rumble about if the fanboost results actually reflect the votes of the fans, with several drivers commenting about their frustrations with the system on Twitter.

Di Grassi believes that to stop the possibility of automated bot votes possibly deciding the results of fanboost, the voting system should be moved to social media only.

“The voting system should change to just votes via social media. That way we can stop people from buying fanboost votes and the voting system will be very easy to monitor.

“Voting through social media will allow the drivers to interact more with the fans, and it’s where the fans actually engage with us,” said Di Grassi.

The 31-year old agrees with the concept of fanboost, and it is something Formula E should keep for many years to come, but the Brazilian feels there are some improvements that can be made to the system.

“I like fanboost, and I think it is a really great feature to have in the championship, which should stay for season three and beyond. However, there are more ways that we can make it more related to the fans. Maybe instead of opening it 12 days before the race we open it a few days before.

“It can be improved in some areas like fanboost not counting for fastest lap, which would be a significant improvement. Formula E are in discussions with how to improve it for next season, and they have all the support from the drivers as we want to keep it for next season,” said the Audi Sport ABT driver.

Di Grassi believes that racing and anything attached to a series should be fair and that gaining an advantage unlawfully should be stopped.

“What I like about sport is a fair way of competing. If you cheat in any way, by getting more votes on fanboost by a team or someone cheating by buying votes, or by cheating your performance by asking another driver to slow down on track to purposely hold people up so you gain an advantage is wrong.”

“Especially what happened to us in Berlin, by using team orders. My priority was always to win in a fair way, and everyone aims are to fight fairly, London was a bit bad, but me and Buemi fought for fastest lap fairly, and he won,” said Di Grassi.