Introducing Formula E.

The all electric single seater series Formula E has made huge strides in the 8 years the series has been around, the series races on street circuits across many different cities such as London, New York, Rome, Berlin and Monaco, we are just scratching the surface on past, present and rumoured circuits. The series was first sketched out in 2011, they made prototype which became the first ever all electric Formula car with the help of current driver Lucas Di Grassi who has driven many racing cars in his time from Formula 1, LMP1, GT’s and more, he drove the prototype and said “It was super powerful and really nice to drive” Lucas  helped build the foundations and concept on Formula E and after a change to the prototype creating the Gen1 car Formula E made its debut in Beijing 2014, coming into 2022 Formula E enters it’s eighth series and we have had some huge manufactures enter such as Andretti, Penske, Jaguar Mercedes, Porsche and the recently departed teams of Audi and BMW. Over the course of it’s 8 years Formula E has become the only series to continuously kept net zero carbon footprint since its inception.

What’s Next For Formula E?

The future of Formula E could also bring in 20 races a season with the idea of double header weekends with 2 races over the course of 2 days and I would love it to get to that stage but then we worry about burning out the team mechanics and drivers so this a constant thought that we could have for within 3-5 years in the future, circuits have been evolving as well and the biggest form of circuit evolution in the London E Prix.

After 2 fantastic championship finales in Battersea Park the series was kicked out and London was absent on the calendar for 5 years until Season 7 when we had the inaugural London Excel E Prix now the special aspect about the venue is that it’s the first ever indoor/outdoor upstairs/downstairs race track, this was made by starting with loads of concepts until finding a home at the exhibition, the main straight starts in the hall however the surface wasn’t suitable for race cars so they had to put over an abrasive surface over the Excel’s prementioned concrete slab and coated over.

After the weekend they will remove the material used to creating the racing surface so that the exhibition centre can still be an exhibition centre without an odd, abrasive surface. In terms with the upstairs/downstairs concept, the grid and pitlane are on the first floor, the level decline on the exit of turn 5 and the incline on the exit of turn 20 with turn 21 taking the cars back into the ExCel hall.