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Revision as of 07:52, 27 November 2017

The 2017–18 FIA Formula E season will be the fourth season of the FIA Formula E Championship.

Teams and drivers

Team Manufacturer Powertrain Race Drivers
No. Drivers Rounds
Germany Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Spark-Audi[1] Audi e-tron FE04[1] 1 Brazil Lucas di Grassi[1] 1
66 Germany Daniel Abt[1] 1
United Kingdom DS Virgin Racing Spark-Citroën DS Virgin DSV-03 2 United Kingdom Sam Bird[2] 1
36 United Kingdom Alex Lynn[2] 1
United Kingdom Panasonic Jaguar Racing Spark-Jaguar Jaguar I-Type II 3 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr.[3] 1
20 New Zealand Mitch Evans[3] 1
Monaco Venturi Formula E Team Spark-Venturi Venturi VM200-FE-03 4 Switzerland Edoardo Mortara[4] 1
5 Germany Maro Engel[4] 1
United States Dragon Racing Spark-Penske Penske EV-2 6 Switzerland Neel Jani[5] 1
7 Belgium Jérôme d'Ambrosio[6] 1
France Renault e.dams Spark-Renault Renault Z.E. 17 8 France Nico Prost[7] 1
9 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi[7] 1
United Kingdom NIO Formula E Team[8] Spark-NIO NextEV NIO Sport 003 16 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey[9] 1
68 Italy Luca Filippi[9] 1
China Techeetah Spark-Renault Renault Z.E. 17 18 Germany André Lotterer[10] 1
25 France Jean-Éric Vergne 1
India Mahindra Racing Spark-Mahindra Mahindra M4Electro 19 Sweden Felix Rosenqvist[11] 1
23 Germany Nick Heidfeld[11] 1
United States MS&AD Andretti Formula E Spark-Andretti[12] Andretti ATEC-03[12] 27 JapanMonaco Kamui Kobayashi[N 1][14] 1
28 Portugal António Félix da Costa[15] 1
Source:[16]

Team changes

Name Changes

The official entry list for the 2017-18 season contained a number of name changes for the teams. These were:[16]

Driver changes

Joining Formula E

Changing teams

Rule changes

  • The maximum power usage during the race was increased from 170 kW to 180 kW.[19]
  • A point for the fastest lap will be restricted to drivers finishing in the top 10, ending the incentive for drivers with damaged cars or placed outside points positions to switch cars to get fastest lap with no intent of finishing the race.

Calendar

In May 2017, a provisional calendar for the 2017–18 season was circulated.[20] In September, the full calendar was announced. This calendar included a new race in Zürich, which marks the first time since 1955 a motorsports circuit race will be held in Switzerland.[21]Also the Buenos Aires round was discontinued.

Round ePrix Country Track Date
1 Hong Kong ePrix Race 1  Hong Kong Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit 2 December 2017
2 Hong Kong ePrix Race 2 3 December 2017
3 Marrakesh ePrix  Morocco Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan 13 January 2018
4 Santiago ePrix  Chile Santiago Street Circuit 3 February 2018
5 Mexico City ePrix  Mexico Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez 3 March 2018
6 São Paulo ePrix  Brazil Anhembi Circuit 17 March 2018
7 Rome ePrix  Italy Circuto Cittadino dell’EUR 14 April 2018
8 Paris ePrix  France Paris Street Circuit 28 April 2018
9 Berlin ePrix  Germany Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit 19 May 2018
10 Zürich ePrix  Switzerland TBA 10 June 2018
11 New York ePrix Race 1  United States Brooklyn Street Circuit 14 July 2018
12 New York ePrix Race 2 15 July 2018
13 Montreal ePrix Race 1  Canada Montreal Street Circuit OR Circuit Gilles Villeneuve[22] 28 July 2018
14 Montreal ePrix Race 2 29 July 2018
Source:[20]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Kobayashi is a Japanese driver who will race under a Monaco racing license.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Audi unveils e-tron FE04". 27 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Alex Lynn steps up to full-time Formula E race seat with DS Virgin Racing". DS Virgin Racing. 5 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Nelson Piquet Jr joins Jaguar for season four". fiaformulae.com. 21 September 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Mitchell, Scott (20 October 2017). "Venturi picks Mortara to partner Engel in Formula E". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  5. ^ a b Smith, Topher (25 August 2017). "Faraday Future Dragon Racing announces Jani for season four". e-racing.net. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  6. ^ "D'Ambrosio to stay at Dragon for fourth season". 8 June 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  7. ^ a b "Sebastien Buemi, Nico Prost extend Renault e.dams Formula E deals". 9 June 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  8. ^ "Formula E: Teams & Drivers". FIA Formula E. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  9. ^ a b c Smith, Topher (2 October 2017). "Filippi joins Turvey at NIO". e-racing.net. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  10. ^ http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/2017/september/lotterer-and-vergne-complete-techeetah-line-up/
  11. ^ a b Douglas, Scott (20 September 2017). "MAHINDRA STICK WITH ROSENQVIST AND HEIDFELD". thecheckeredflag.co.uk. The Checkered Flag. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  12. ^ a b Mitchell, Scott (23 May 2017). "Alexander Sims set for Andretti Formula E 2017/18 development role". Autosport. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  13. ^ "Kamui races with a Monaco racing licence and the FIA sees Kobayashi as Monegasque". Formula E. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  14. ^ a b Mitchell, Scott (15 November 2017). "Kobayashi to make Formula E debut in Hong Kong". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  15. ^ Smith, Topher (2 October 2017). "da Costa confirmed at MS&AD Andretti". e-racing.net. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  16. ^ a b "10kW power hike for Season 4". fiaformulae.com. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  17. ^ "Announcing MS&AD Andretti – the re-branded MS Amlin Formula E team - MS Amlin plc". www.msamlin.com. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  18. ^ "Alex Lynn steps Up to Full-time Formula E race seat with DS Virgin Racing". DS Virgin Racing. 5 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  19. ^ "Formula E raises race power for Season 4". fiaformulae.com. 2017-01-10.
  20. ^ a b Smith, Sam (23 May 2017). "No London return but Chile on 2017/18 Formula E calendar". Autosport. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  21. ^ Formula E brings racing return to Switzerland
  22. ^ Mitchell, Scott. "Montreal Formula E race could switch to Canadian GP F1 track". Autosport.com. Retrieved 2017-11-08.


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