Formula E’s hope of using the full Monaco Grand Prix Formula 1 layout when it returns to Monte-Carlo in its 2018/19 season looks set to fall through.

FIA president Jean Todt explained in May that he was “against having the normal circuit”, but FE is now understood to be using the shortened layout.Alejandro Agag, the CEO of FE, had wanted the faster Gen2 cars to use the longer circuit but acknowledged the FIA’s objection to the proposal and said that the teams preferred the short circuit.

“We’re going to do the short track,” Agag told Motorsport.com. “The FIA didn’t want us to use the same track as F1 and making modifications to the longer track is very expensive.

“So effectively it’s a cost decision linked with the wish of all the teams. The teams have said they like the short track.

“I wanted to do the same layout as F1, but the FIA wouldn’t let me.”

Venturi boss Susie Wolff confirmed to Motorsport.com that FE using the shorter Monaco layout had the support of the teams.

“I was very vocal for wanting the short track because fundamentally for me, it all comes down to the spectacle,” she said.

“I felt with those cars on the long circuit – we would have done 20 laps, there wouldn’t have been many overtaking opportunities and we don’t need to do something just because F1 does it.”