When characters like Yoshi or Luigi run over a red mushroom in Mario Kart, they’re rewarded with a short power boost of acceleration to gain positions. In its just-ended fifth season, Formula E borrowed from the Nintendo playbook and brought power boosts to real-life motorsports.
The all-electric racing league announced a literal power boost called Attack Mode ahead of the 2018-2019 season, adding strategy to a racing series that has become so evenly matched it yielded eight different winners in the first eight races this past season. France’s Jean-Eric Vergne broke the trend when picked up his second win of the season in Formula E’s ninth race at Monaco.