envision virgin racing get the ball rolling with launch of world’s first ‘marbula-e’ series Scroll down to content Leading Formula E team Envision Virgin Racing is aiming to fill the ‘motorsport void’ left by the current lockdown by offering fans some light-hearted entertainment in the form of the world’s first Marbula-E series. The marbles represent actual open-wheel racing Formula E teams; they bear Mercedes-Benz and BMW branding, with sponsorship coming from Envision Virgin Racing. Marble Races for everyone to watch and play.

Sylvain Filippi, Envision Virgin Racing’s Managing Director, explained: Normally, when we talk about marbles in motorsport we’re referring to those fragments of tyre rubber deposited on the track, but in this case we’re talking about something very different. Virgin Racing (subsequently Marussia Virgin Racing) was a Formula One racing team which was under management of Manor Motorsport, Wirth Research and Richard Branson's Virgin Group which competed in Formula One in 2010 and 2011.It scored no points and finished last in the Constructor's Championship for the two years the team competed. With the Formula E season postponed, the Envision Virgin Racing team has hooked up with Jelle’s Marble Runs for a planned season-long event dubbed “Marbula E.” The team was one of the four granted an entry … The Envision Virgin Racing team has teamed up with Jelle’s Marble Runs, the YouTube channel of Marbleympics fame, to start a “Marbula E” series. Jelle's Marble Runs is a YouTube channel based in the Netherlands, run by Jelle and Dion Bakker.It is based around marbles, marble runs, and marble races.Content on the channel includes spoofing the Olympic Games, Formula One, and other sporting events.Additionally, they create stand-alone competitions around holidays, with the marble names in the style of the holiday. Welcome to Marble Racing!