Oli Rowland thought he ended his own career – two years later he is world champion

Earlier this month, Oliver Rowland provided the most dominant Formula E title in History in Berlin and now he is preparing to end the season with a home race in London

Oliver Rowland had sleepless nights when he thought he was committed suicide in the career two years ago. But during this weekend he gets a victory procession from the world’s world championship, while he steps at Formula E’s seasonal London E-Prix.

The boy from Barnsley, 32, achieved the most dominant title profit in Berlin earlier this month to only become the second fully electric world champion of Great -Britain -and it only came two years after he stopped the series completely.

Unhappy and under -performance at Mahindra, Rowland made the brave decision to concentrate on his own well -being and torn his contract.

But after months of doubts about what he had done, Nissan – the team he drove to when he came to the series full time in 2018 – offered an olive branch that he knew he knew he had to take.

Rowland said: “The journey I have made in the last two years is nothing less than crazy. It is almost two years until the day I was without work, sleeping no more than three hours a night because I was so scared about what I had done and of the situation I had placed myself.

“From a psychiatric perspective, I was in a pretty bad place, so to be in this position now, I feel pretty happy. I try to balance the emotions because they are highlights, lows, come home again, have a normal life again. It is not normal to navigate.

“I think that by taking that risk and that point in the long term in the long term I realized that I had to ensure that every small detail is done correctly by my side. I really had to make the most out of this chance because the reality was that if it didn’t work, it was the last.

“I am quite a doubt, I always arrive at a race and I think I will not be good enough, so I will have to work very hard if I want to make this opportunity best.”

One of Rowland’s secret for success is his mentoring of Red Bull F1 Wonderkid Arvid Lindblad. Rowland has led the British-Swedish Star since he was only seven.

Now a 17-year-old, he rode in FP1 on the recent British Grand Prix and while Lindblad continued to rise, Rowland knew that he had to get his act in acceleration.

“This year is the perfect balance,” said Rowland. “I perform, he plays, we drive together.

“When you set such a high level and you see someone else with whom you work so closely, also set a high level in a completely different area, you motivate each other, you build that trust between each other.

“If I advise him to do this or to do that, but I finish at the age of 20 every week, there is less confidence there.”