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The FIA Formula E World Championship will be hosting its first-ever E-Prix in Spain on April 24 and 25, rounds 5 and 6 of the season. Audi factory driver René Rast explains what it is like to drive a Formula E car on the circuit in Valencia, named as the Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo. Rast and teammate Lucas di Grassi will be behind the wheel of the Audi e-tron FE07 cars from Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler.
Ahead of the 2021 Rome E-Prix, rounds 3 and 4 of this season’s FIA Formula E World Championship, Audi factory driver Lucas di Grassi tells us more about the changes that have been made to the street circuit in Rome. Lucas di Grassi and his Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler teammate, René Rast, will be racing with the Audi e-tron FE07 at the circuit on April 10 and 11, 2021.
The seventh season of Formula E, the first as an official FIA World Championship, sees Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler taking part with the Audi e-tron FE07. The latest fully-electric race car from the brand with the four rings boasts a new in-house-developed motor-generator unit, called the Audi MGU05.
With limited days of testing in Formula E, Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler prepares for the fully-electric racing series in the state-of-the-art simulator at the headquarters of Audi Sport in Neuburg an der Donau.
The 2019 Valencia Test was the first and only pre-season test, staged ahead of the 2019/20 ABB FIA Formula E Championship, held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain, between 15 - 18 October 2019. The Test would be the first public running for the new Porsche and Mercedes-Benz factory teams, ahead of their mutual debuts at the 2019 Ad Diriyah E-Prix I.The three day test would see Maximilian Günther emerge as the fastest driver for BMW i Andretti Motorsport, setting a new circuit record on the final day of 1:15.087.[5] The German racer also topped the distance covered charts with 203 laps of Valencia completed across the six test sessions, a figure only matched by teammate Alexander Sims, with their combined total coming to 401 laps or 1,239.060 km (769.879 mi).