Sergio Aguero narrowly avoided disaster when he drove a Formula E car – then admitted he wants to own a team.
Aguero drove reigning world champion Pascal Wehrlein’s Porsche during FE’s first-of-its-kind Evo Sessions event, which put 11 celebrities and content creators behind the wheel of the world’s most advanced race car. But during the second day of the session, Wehrlein’s heart rate was sent pumping after Aguero overcooked a corner and performed a 360 degree spin – narrowly missing the wall of the Miami Hard Rock Stadium circuit.
The Manchester City record goalscorer, 36, was able to regain his composure and finish his designated laps, which were filmed in an attempt to put Formula E in front of new audiences. Following the session, Aguero revealed to the Mirror that he has already had conversations about starting a new team.
“After I stopped playing football, I had other businesses, but ideas began to occur and I started to put together a good team. People who also know about creativity and projects,” Aguero said. “With this we were also chatting a little bit in Formula E to see how it is possible to have a team. We talked a little about the budget, but obviously it is a lot of money, so it is not something that I think can be achieved easily, but we’ll see what happens.”
Aguero pushed the Formula E car to the limit of a rookie’s capability during his two-day stint in Miami. A FE car has 30% more acceleration than its F1 equivalent, doing 0-60mph in just 1.82 seconds.
Mr Beast, YouTube’s most followed man with 370 million subscribers, was the only person to crash a car during the event. But Aguero insisted after his session he was calm despite narrowly missing the wall.
“They asked me, are you nervous? I said no,” Aguero said. “It is a feeling of adrenaline, I want to go out to see how it is, but not nerves.
“In the end, you need to learn to handle the nerves much better, because if you don’t, the nerves sometimes make you make a lot of mistakes.
“It’s a nice experience. You understand a little more about the drivers, you have to value the effort of the drivers a lot. The drivers have a huge sacrifice from a very young age.
“There are people who support them, there are people who don’t – and sometimes they themselves or the family have to spend their money to have a future. You have to value what they do and the effort that the family also makes.
“I learned a lot and I understood a lot about what it is to be able to reach the elite.”
For Wehrlein – who will be back in FE action next month at the Miami E-Prix – nerves were sky high knowing a complete racing rookie was driving his world championship challenger.
He said: “I was more nervous seeing him driving than I am driving myself – even more than in London before I won the world championship. It is my car, it’s my real car.
“We saw that when he was driving. He stuck to the racing line and the feeling of the car was there. I expected him to do well, I knew it when we met the first time.”
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