Formula E races in 2024
The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship announced today that it would return to China and India for the milestone 10th season of the world’s top electric motor racing series, making it the only motorsport to conduct races in the world’s three most populated countries: China, India, and the United States, in 2024.
Following agreement at the FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting on October 19, Shanghai and Hyderabad were confirmed as host cities for Season 10 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.
Formula E will compete for the first time in Shanghai on Saturday, May 25, and Sunday, May 26, 2024, at the Shanghai International Circuit. The first Formula E race was place in Beijing on September 13, 2014, with a second event a year later. Sanya then hosted the most recent Chinese E-Prix in 2019, with Formula E racing in Hong Kong four times between Seasons 2 and 5.
Following the 31,000-capacity sold-out maiden race in February this year, Hyderabad will host Formula E again on Saturday, 10 February 2024, with backing from the Telangana Government and Minister K. T. Rama Rao. The event boosted the Hyderabad economy by around USD 84 million**. With the Season 10 calendar, Tokyo was set to host a race on Saturday 30 March, marking the first time a racing world championship event would be conducted on the streets of the historic Japanese metropolis.
Round | Date | Location |
Test | 23 – 27 October | Valencia, Spain |
1 | 13 January | Mexico City, Mexico |
2 | 26 January | Diriyah, Saudi Arabia |
3 | 27 January | Diriyah, Saudi Arabia |
4 | 10 February | Hyderabad, India |
5 | 16 March | São Paulo, Brazil |
6 | 30 March | Tokyo, Japan |
7 | 13 April | TBD, Italy |
8 | 14 April | TBD, Italy |
9 | 27 April | Monaco, Monaco |
10 | 11 May | Berlin, Germany |
11 | 12 May | Berlin, Germany |
12 | 25 May | Shanghai, China |
13 | 26 May | Shanghai, China |
14 | 29 June | Portland, USA |
15 | 20 July | London, UK |
16 | 21 July | London, UK |
The Season 10 calendar has been updated twice more. Following the establishment of a campaigning phase in the Indonesian presidential elections for the majority of June, the event scheduled for Jakarta on Saturday, 8 June, will not take place. This would have an influence on the logistics of simultaneously providing a race on the streets of the capital city. Formula E and the Jakarta authorities are investigating the possibility of racing in the city on a different date.
The second update concerns a possible site change for Rounds 7 and 8 in Italy. This follows an assessment of the Season 9 races in Rome by Formula E and the FIA, where the new faster, more powerful GEN3 vehicle neared the boundaries of the small, sharp-turning course in Rome’s commercial sector. Formula E is looking for other venues, including as permanent circuits, in order to keep an event in the vital Italian market. A venue upgrade in Italy is likely before the end of the year.