Formula E race track Santiago (Parque O'Higgins)

Formula E race track Santiago

Santiago , Chile
Route type:	Temporary race track
Opening:	January 26, 2019
Track layout
Route data
Important events:	Formula E.
Route length:	2.287  km (1.42  mi )
Curves:	11
Records
Track record: (Formula E)	1: 06.405 min. ( Oliver Rowland , Nissan e.dams , 2020)

Coordinates: 33 ° 27 ′ 48.7 ″  S , 70 ° 39 ′ 36.6 ″  W.

The Santiago Formula E race track is a temporary street circuit for races in the FIA Formula E Championship in Santiago de Chile . On January 26, 2019, a race took place on this track for the first time as part of the 2018/19 season .

The course leads over public roads, directly at Parque O'Higgins and goes around the Movistar Arena . It runs counterclockwise and in the first configuration consisted of 14 curves with a length of 2.348 km.

After the start-finish straight , which lay on a concrete surface in the middle of the park, the route turned right. Another right-hand bend followed before a parking area was circled with three left-hand bends. A chicane followed before the route turned onto the Elipse del Parque O'Higgins and made a long left-hand bend. This was interrupted by another chicane. At the end of the bend, there was a 90-degree left bend, and the route then led to a hairpin left bend . After another hairpin bend, this time to the right, the route led back to the start-finish straight.

The routing has been revised for the 2020 Santiago E-Prix . The start-finish straight was moved around 20 meters to the right on the concrete surface, so that a left curve followed at the end of the straight before the route was identical to the first variant. The chicane in the long left bend of the Elipse del Parque O'Higgins was removed, the left bend at the end of the bend then turned left earlier. Two hairpin bends followed, but in reverse order first right and then left, before the start-finish straight followed again. As a result of the renovation work, the number of curves was reduced to eleven, and the route was also 61 meters shorter with a length of 2.287 km.

Web links

Commons : Santiago Formula E Circuit (Parque O'Higgins)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias Wirtz: Official: Formula E will also drive in Santiago in 2019 - on a new route. e-Formel.de, October 9, 2018, accessed January 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Timo Pape: Formula E in Santiago: Various adjustments to the track layout. e-Formel.de, January 13, 2020, accessed on January 18, 2020 .