The Long Beach street circuit has been an icon for motor-racing since 1975 when Formula 5000 took to the streets of California for the first time.

From 1976, Formula One entered Long Beach for its first race in Los Angeles, which was won by Clay Regazzoni in his Ferrari. Formula One spent eight years at Long Beach, leaving in 1983.

Indycar then took over the street course in 1984 with Mario Andretti winning the first two Indycar races at Long Beach, followed by Mario Andretti’s son and Andretti Autosports President and CEO Michael Andretti in 1986. The IndyCar series is still racing around the streets of Long Beach after 29 years.

Now its Formula E turn to race around the streets of California in a revised layout of the original Long Beach circuit. The Formula E Circuit only has seven turns and goes right at turn three instead of going straight on to follow the IndyCar and ex-Formula One route.

Looking at the revised circuit, the main overtaking zones will be turn one, three and four. All three of these corners come off the back of long straights, which should allow the cars to gain a good slipstream, in order to attempt an overtaking move down the inside.

Stephane Sarrazin was delighted when he found out that Formula E will be racing at Long Beach and he thinks that Formula E have done an amazing job of having a mix of unique tracks alongside historic street circuit such as Monaco and Long Beach.

“It is very good that Formula E have managed to find very good unique tracks, as well as the historic tracks like Long Beach and Monaco. There is a good selection of tracks and for the first year it is very impressive and we will also go to places like London, Beijing, and Miami is incredible,” said Sarrazin.

Also, for the first time this season teams will have three practices sessions to try and get to grips with the cars before qualifying and the race.

Stephane Sarrazin was happy with the addition of an extra practice session in Long Beach. The French driver was not worried about the team possibly losing any track time, due to possible set up problems in the morning, as the three practice sessions only add up to one hour and 15 minutes.

“It is a good thing, I am not worried if we have set up problems about losing too much track time as we have a very good group of engineers and we will have more time to analysis and find out exactly what has happened. It is always good to be out on track,” said the 39-year old.

So far, not a single driver has converted a pole position to a race victory and Formula E has seen five different winners from the first five races. Are we set to make that six from six? We will have to find out, as it is less than 3 days until the lights go out in Long Beach.