Formula e 2019/2020 season

[MG CHRIS]

As its only a few weeks to the start of the new series thought it be a good chance to round up the new news teams and drivers for the upcoming season. First of new teams Porsche enter and merc as a full team after partnering Hwa for developing year last season. This pushes the field to 12 teams and 24 drivers.


Audi sport abt schaeffer retain drivers Daniel abt and Lucas Di Grassi
Tag Heuer Porsche formula e team with former wec drivers Neel Jani and Andrea lotterer
Panasonic Jaguar racing retains drivers Mitch Evans and new driver to the series James calado
Mercedes Benz eq formula e teams with Stoffel vandoome and this years f2 champion Nyck de Vries
Nissan e dams remains Oliver Rowlands and Sebastien Buemi
BMW I Andretti motorsport remains Alex sims and brings over Maximillian Gunther from geox dragon
Nio 333 Fe team retains Oliver Turvey and new to the series Ma quinghua
Envision virgin racing retains Sam Bird and Robin Frijns
Geox dragon has a whole new line up with Brendon Hartley and Nico Muller
DS Techeetah retains last season champ Jean Eric Vergne and form bmw driver Antonio Felix da costa
Venturi formula e team retains Felipa Massa and Edoardo Mortara
Mahindra racing retains Pascal Wehrlein and Jerome d Ambrosio

Season kicks of at Diriyah Saudi Arabia for Rd1/2 on the 22nd/23rd November.
Rd3 Santigo Chile 18th January
Rd4 Meixco city Mexico 15th February
Rd5 Marrakesh Morroco 29 February
Rd6 Sanya China 21st March
Rd7 Rome Italy 4th April
Rd8 Paris France 18th April
Rd9 Seol South Korea 3rd May
Rd10 Jakarta Idonesia 6th June
Rd11 Berlin Germany 21st June
Rd12 New York city Usa 11th July
Rd13/14 final back in London uk 25/26th July where hopefully the season will go to the wire on home soil.

Watch live either through bbc red button service or via channel 5.

Last year had some very close races and the final was a dramtic way to finish the season of with the new season looking even more competitive with new teams and drivers should be another exciting year for formula e even thinking of going to the last rd in London for the final.

[MG CHRIS]

Correct on the tv viewing why I mentioned channel 5 Ive no idea. Eurosport did a good job last season so hopefully be even better this season.

[MG CHRIS]

Just about caught the first race slow burner but picked up in the last 15/20 mins. Great result by Sam bird in the envision virgin team and both merc and Porsche on the podium in their first race very impressive.
Coverage was shocking though.

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Very messy 2nd race the safety car restart while car still being recovered thought that would end in tears but thankfully put out full course yellow before anything could happen. Gutted for Sam bird though great first race climbing through the field then gets taken out. Sims was very impressive though to take his first win.
Has his team mate been penalisied for the over take.


Just checked yep 24s penalty ouch.

Edited by MG CHRIS on Saturday 23 November 17:53

[MG CHRIS]

What a great race one of the best in the history of the season. Finally have a track without a stupid chicane which only caused red flags. Dissapointing when bird was spun he was picking off places early on. That curved section really showed of the speed before the braking zone and created some great side by side moves.
Coverage still pretty shocking and im still not convinced on quali but its certainly giving unpredictable races which is what races should be.

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ajprice said:

Watched on iPlayer and quality was ok for me. Vergne was a late entry in the bellend to your teammate awards . Good race though, and whether planned or by accident, a lot of cars crossed the line on 0 or 0.1% energy.

No idea what vergne was trying to do there and when injured carry on blocking his team mate. Then carried on at full speed with a front wing dragging on the track.
Also thought he was a bit of a knob tbf very arrogant driver.

[MG CHRIS]

Just too add bird managed to get up to 7th after all the amendments keeps in 3rd overall. Hope he can challenge for the title this year. Nice to see the tracks are changing too less tight chicanes and more high speed section and with the car easy to follow leads too good overtakes as well.

[MG CHRIS]

Seen a few days ago changes to the mexico layout extended layout out after the first corner removing the tight chicane and also removing the chicane before the start straight speed should be high so battery management may well be key for good results.

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Correct move be interesting too see if formula 1 does the same.

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Heads up quali about to start for mexico. Longer track this year.

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Great race ruined by useless camera work seriously going for reply when there is action on track. Great win for mitch evans and jag dominate display by them. Some stupid driving by a few though and what were ds team doing with the driver swaping.

[MG CHRIS]

Not as good as the previous races but still loads of action and close finish for 2nd at the end. Impressive drive from jev and also mitch evans getting up to 6th. 5 different winners in 5 races there was only 5 winners in the whole of the 2019 f1 season.

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Flamma said:

And as I've just seen on DSC, FE doing FE things and clashing with WEC Spa..

Tbh it doesn't really matter wec has been dying for years and nobody will be able to go there to watch it so its a moot point.