Current E spent the day at the Mahindra Racing simulator with Karun Chandhok as he prepared for the Monaco 2015 Formula E race.

“It’s quite a tight corner this one,” he says, heading into T1. “It’s going to be first gear. It comes back on itself. Then you plunge downhill towards this new hairpin which none of us have really done before. On the brakes: it’s a really, really tight corner. You have to crawl your way around before you rejoin the traditional Monaco circuit. Going past the boats in the harbour before we come to Tabac, a fantastic corner where you have to carry a lot of speed through there to get a good lap time. Flat through Swimming Pool one and braking hard for Swimming Pool two, bouncing over the kerbs. It’s really important to get a good change of direction. On the brakes for Rascasse. Crucial there to get the nose into the apex before you shoot up the hill towards Anthony Noghes. It’s a really awkward corner: the back of the car’s moving around all the time. It’s quite tricky to get that right but satisfying when you do. It’s going to be a really short lap here, probably sub one minute.”