At long last, the Electric GT (EGT) Championship’s Tesla-based race series has been approved by the FIA, with the first race of the new Electric Production Car Series (EPCS) scheduled to take place later this year. The series will feature 20 drivers, all piloting a race-prepped Model S P100D with 778 hp.
Each race will feature a 20-minute practice session followed by a three-heat 60-minute qualifying session. Drivers will then take part in a day race (60km) as well as a dusk race (60km). However, that’s not all as once the race is finished, the top two and another two fan-voted drivers will enter a spot of drifting.
The drifting competition will take place at “suitable circuits,” with the winner walking away with a further three championship points. Sounds like an intriguing series already, don’t you think?
In an official statement from EGT, CEO Mark Gemmell said, “this is such an exciting day for us as we confirm that the Electric Production Car Series has been officially sanctioned by the FIA. We respect the FIA and we are honoured to have their support ahead of our inaugural season.”
“We are also pleased to officially publish the sporting regulations for the Electric Production Car Series. We have put a lot of time into refining the regulations to allow for competitive and thrilling racing. With a three-heat qualifying system and two EPCS races, plus our eKarting and eSports races, fans will have a lot of racing action to get excited about,” he ended.
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Everybody is moving towards Electric. Even racing also now become Electric
Everything is EV
Those who don’t embrace EV now will be left behind…..
There’s a conspiracy theory behind the reason why electric vehicles and high density battery technology doesn’t really take off like it should i.e. politicians, governments, oil producers groups, O&G companies trying to keep dependency on oil so they can keep making $$$ for years to come.
Suddenly remind me that 10 years ago, Proton said going to launch EV in 2013.
Now not even a hybrid in their line-up.
Whatever proton said, just take it with a grain of salt. They also said will sell 500k units by 2017/2018.
Iriz EV is all ready to go into production. Just waiting for public to accept an RM80k Bsegment EV hatchback.
Meanwhile in P2, habuk EV pun tarak.
Where is it? They said in production 5 years ago. Massih tunggu.
Malaysian style….semua perlahan perlahan
EEV got la, then slowly hybrid, plug in hybrid and full green leaf.TNB untung or Petronas ?
better that p2 dont wanna invlove and directly reject the idea of EV …
Boring stuff..
Way to go electric propulsion! No mean feat getting all the bits in the right places. But there’s still much to be done. Long road ahead to overtake internal combustion. Question of when only.