The provisional FIA Formula E Championship race calendar for the inaugaral season in 2014/2015 has been announced, and on the cards are ten city venues spanning four continents. Three new venues make their way on to the original list of cities announced earlier this year.
Punta del Este, a beach resort in Uruguay, Monte Carlo and Hong Kong replace Rome, Rio de Janeiro and Bangkok, which will instead be considered as candidate cities for the coming Formula E seasons.
Beijing will have the honour of hosting the world’s first fully-electric race, and after the opening round, the 10 teams and 20 drivers of the FIA Formula E Championship will remain in Asia for Rounds 2 and 3, with Putrajaya being the second race venue (the race is set to take place on October 18, 2014), followed by Hong Kong.
From there, the series heads to South America with Round 4 in Punta del Este, Uruguay, before arriving in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in January 2015 for the fifth race. The series then heads to North America for Rounds 6 and 7 in Los Angeles and Miami respectively. Europe will host the final three rounds, beginning with Monte Carlo, followed by Berlin (at the former airport location of Tempelhof) and then London.
For the first season, all 10 teams – each with two drivers – will compete using the new Spark-Renault SRT_01E car, which was unveiled earlier this month at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
All Formula E races will feature a free practice session, qualifying session, one-hour race and live music concert taking place in a single day – this being Saturday – in order to minimise disruption to the city and its surrounding areas. Precise circuit layouts for each venue will be revealed at a later stage, but all will use city-centre locations.
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Same as the F1 GP, which is also 2nd round. Eh, live music concert as well.
Also, any details where the Putrajaya circuit will be at? Should be interesting to hear only tyre roar and the motor whine (no loud exhaust).
Seriously, how would it sounds like?
It sound like this:
You can search it on Youtube, there’s a video of them doing drive-by.
Bend more lower dear….
Wow!
wow Malaysia is in the map of motorsports again.. wonder why Japan didnt take place
Hum so its all been confirmed ,putrajaya will host Formula E ,so Malaysia will soon have its own Street race
You mean street circuit, like the Singapore F1 GP? Street race is different bro, already existed LOL.
Great. We host an environmentally friendly race, and all those green machines will be transported around in trucks running on crappy dirty Euro 2 diesel.
Oh the irony…
let’s make Putrajaya a happening race weekend for all the spectator to enjoy
An open wheel racer whizzing past the Istana Kehakiman should be a sight to behold. Or even the Putrajaya Mosque roundabout. I know it’s unrealistic, but still.
a few years back, team lotus did a street demo there…a nice sight…
Soon Copycat Singapore will follows.
Hopefully no potholes~wahahahaha
That’s why our beloved country proposed Putrajaya, where we can see the best road Malaysia can offer. Where other developed countries have good road surface on all roads whether on track or on cities, we only have best roads in Sepang circuit, few parts of Putrajaya and certain highways only. Only in Malaysia.
That should be a Malaysia only feature. :)
cant wait…
So who do you think should be the Malaysian driver? Jazeman?