Formula E News and General Discussion Thread

[RasputinLives]

Not sure on Nato but Sette Camera was always at the top in F2 and just had a lot of bad luck. I think he would be a very good addition to the grid and, given the other Dragon drivers aren't exactly ripping up seats, I'd get him signed up now if I was them.

 

[RasputinLives]

Oh and because I mentioned it earlier I just thought I'd confirm that JEV does not have Coronavirus....but they did suspect he did prior to the race.

Vergne fainted after Marrakesh ePrix after testing negative for coronavirus

TWO-TIME Formula E champion Jean-Eric Vergne fainted after the Marrekesh ePrix after suffering from illness. The Frenchman missed practice on Friday after being sent to hospital to be checked for c…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[F1Brits_90]

sette camara was the better driver over many years, nato 2nd season was very good. well I would back him because FE is full of drivers who were great in F2 but could make the break through & sette camara is at least on a par with Rowland, bird, evans, Gunther, Friyns, de vries,

Mortara surprised me, ended up looking at his record earlier this morning he won the macau GP 5 times in single seaters 09 10 & GT's 11 12 & 13. in main macau gp races in 09 & 10. he beat drivers like Bottas, Bianchi, Riccardio, Bird, Sims, Vergne, Felix Da costa, Rosenquist & our old friend Haryianto who glad it was a street track, so he couldnt beach it in the sand

 

[F1Brits_90]

rome has gone

Formula E postpones Rome E-Prix over coronavirus

www.motorsport.com

 

[Legs]

Bugger.

 

[Legs]

The Formula E website has gone a bit doolally...

 

[F1Brits_90]

yes i just checked the formula e site Legs & i was thinking has paris been cancelled. but not been announced

 

[RasputinLives]

Paris Marathon has been cancelled so I imagine as it's only April 18th that Paris E-prix will go too.

 

[RasputinLives]

So news of perspective races in Cape Town and Eindhoven which I'm all for. A night race in Eindhoven might be a bridge too far though.

New sprint to bring nighttime Formula E auto race to Eindhoven streets

Three entrepreneurs in Eindhoven have teamed up with political and academic leaders there to bring the all-electric race car series Formula E to the Noord-Brabant city. The organization Formula Eindhoven plans on submitting a bid for a race to be held at night during the 2021-22 race season, the...

nltimes.nl

Isn't Formula E meant to be green? Unless all the lights are powered up by millions of the Dutch public running on treadmills beforehand. That must work. I did 2 miles on the bike at the gym today and it told me it would power a lightbulb for 196 mins. 45 min race should be easy.

 

[RasputinLives]

So Jakarta has now been postponed too

Coronavirus forces maiden Jakarta Formula E race to be postponed

The inaugural Jakarta E-Prix has become the third Formula E race to be officially postponed following the spread of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19

www.autosport.com

I'm pretty sure Paris will follow this trend shortly. However from what this article says we will have a race on April 4th in Valencia which is where all the cars were shipped from Morroco and are currently stationed.

 

[F1Brits_90]

i hope so. but la liga in Spain have now played all their games behind closed doors now

 

[RasputinLives]

I think the thinking is that all the cars and staff are already there for testing so they'll be very little travel involved.

 

[RasputinLives]

Looks like Formula E has taken the sensible decision of suspending it's season for next 2 months. Probably sensible as all races take place in city centres.

FE set to suspend season for two months due to COVID-19 pandemic

Formula E will suspend its current racing season for the next two months due to the global health threat of the coronavirus, Autosport has learned

www.autosport.com

From other sources I'm reading they are planning on bolstering the season up at the end with double headers and some squeezed in races.

 

[Legs]

I see that London has (unsurprisingly) been cancelled... Haven’t heard anything about getting a refund yet

 

[RasputinLives]

Formula E look like they are on the verge of scrapping the current season and just prepping for next year - which makes a lot of sense if you think their season usually ends in July.

It would mean that they could kick off next year in November/December time as a fully fledged world championship and run pretty seamlessly (hopefully) - although I still think we'll have crowd restrictions in some countries even then.

In other news the Jaguar I-Pace support series has been scrapped which makes me worry about Jaguar!

 

[FB]

Having seen the Jaguar I-Pace supprt race live I'm not surprised it's been canned. It made competitive line dancing look exciting.

 

[cider_and_toast]

I expect one of the other manufacturers will offer their vehicles as a replacement.

A Nissan Leaf support race would be awesome.

 

[FB]

Daniel Abt has been sacked - Daniel Abt sacked by Audi Formula E team after cheating in virtual race - Motor Sport Magazine

 

[RasputinLives]

Blimey. We were talking about this on the virtual F1 thread but at that point he'd only been suspended.

 

[cider_and_toast]

I was just about to post this news.

If there is a more bizarre reason to be sacked from a motorsport team I want to here it.