Zurich E-Prix

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statistics

Racing series: FIA Formula E Championship (2018)
Racetracks: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Formula E race track Zurich
Last E-Prix
Zurich E-Prix
Season: 2017/18
Racetrack: Formula E race track Zurich
Race length: 96.135 km in 39 laps of 2.465 km

Winner: BrazilBrazil Lucas di Grassi ( Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler ) GermanyGermany 
Pole position: New ZealandNew Zealand Mitch Evans ( Panasonic Jaguar Racing ) United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Fastest lap: GermanyGermany André Lotterer ( Techeetah ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
Records
Most wins: BrazilBrazil Lucas di Grassi (1)
Most Poles: New ZealandNew Zealand Mitch Evans (1)

The Zurich E-Prix is an automobile race of the FIA Formula E Championship in Zurich , Switzerland . The race , held on June 10, 2018, was the first circuit race in Switzerland since the introduction of the ban on motor sport races on circuits in Switzerland in 1955 and the first international circuit race since the Swiss Grand Prix in 1954 .

history

Maro Engel at the shake down to the Zurich E-Prix 2018

The Federal Council decided on 1 April 2016 softening of the ban on public circuit races in Switzerland by exemptions for races with electric cars will be awarded.

The organization of the race is taken over by the specially founded Swiss E-Prix Operations AG under the direction of Pascal Derron. Already three months before the first staging of the race, the company announced that it had extended the contract with the FIA ​​Formula E Championship, which originally ran until 2024, for another three years, i.e. until 2027. The license gives the company the exclusive right to organize annual E-Prix in Switzerland. Swiss cities could apply to host an E-Prix here. A race in Lugano was originally planned for 2016 . After the financing in Lugano did not come about, according to media reports, the equivalent of 10 million euros was necessary, the city of Zurich stepped in for 2017. However, the first edition did not take place until 2018.

According to Mayor Corine Mauch in spring 2018, there will probably not be any regular Formula E races in Zurich. The city of Zurich had given authorization to hold Formula E races in 2018 and 2019. The race calendar for the 2018/19 FIA Formula E Championship was also scheduled to take place again in June 2019.

The first Zurich E-Prix was held on a specially set up temporary racing track in the Enge district of the city ​​district 2 . In contrast to the other races of the FIA ​​Formula E Championship, the race was held on a Sunday in order to keep traffic obstruction as low as possible.

Lucas di Grassi won the first Zurich E-Prix ahead of Sam Bird and Jérôme D'Ambrosio .

On September 4, 2018, the race planned for June 9, 2019 was canceled because the population should not be expected to have too many major events in one year - in addition to the Züri Fäscht , the tenth anniversary of the Zurich Pride Festival will also take place in 2019 . It was also communicated that if the event were to be held in 2020, the route would have to be relocated to another district where the residents would be less stressed by the construction work. On June 26, 2019, the Zurich City Council rejected the approval for a race on the ETH Zurich campus . Since no alternative route was planned in Zurich, this meant that the race was canceled again.

Results

Edition year route winner Second Third Pole position Fastest lap
1 2017/18 Formula E race track Zurich BrazilBrazil Lucas di Grassi
( ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport ) 		United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sam Bird
( DS Virgin Racing ) 		BelgiumBelgium Jérôme D'Ambrosio
( Dragon Racing ) 		New ZealandNew Zealand Mitch Evans
( Panasonic Jaguar Racing ) 		GermanyGermany André Lotterer
( Techeetah )

Web links

Commons : Zurich ePrix  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sda / zeha; kurn: Switzerland - Formula E is allowed to drive in Switzerland. Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), December 15, 2015, accessed on June 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Erich Hirsch: Organizer of the Zurich E-Prix extends Formula E license until 2027. e-Formel.de, March 11, 2018, accessed on June 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ By Matthias Dubach: Formula E flop in Lugano: Zurich is now in pole position . ( blick.ch [accessed on June 11, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Erich Hirsch: Dream of the Lugano ePrix 2016 probably burst. e-Formel.de, December 3, 2015, accessed on June 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ (sda / mbü / ise): Formula E cars are supposed to whiz through Zurich . In: Handelszeitung . September 22, 2017 ( handelszeitung.ch [accessed June 11, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Nilds Pfändler: The first might already be the last . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 92 , April 21, 2018, p. 17 ( nzz.ch [accessed on April 23, 2018]).
  7. ^ Zurich E-Prix: FAQ. (No longer available online.) Swiss E-Prix Operations AG, archived from the original on June 12, 2018 ; accessed on June 1, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Tobias Wirtz: Berlin stays in! Formula E publishes new racing calendar for season 5. e-Formel.de, June 7, 2018, accessed on June 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Tobias Bluhm: Zurich cancels Formula E race for 2019, replacement race in Bern? e-Formel.de, September 4, 2018, accessed on September 6, 2018 .
  10. ^ City Council of Zurich, Security Department: No Formula E races in Zurich in 2019. Media release. In: City of Zurich. September 4, 2018, accessed September 6, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Formula E in the Engadine? - St. Moritz wants to step into the breach for Zurich. In: srf.ch . June 27, 2019, accessed June 29, 2019 .