The formula E is in its fifth season more exciting and more popular than ever. Also Ex-formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg is engaged in the all-electric racing series, which comes the weekend after Berlin.
Top riders: defending champion Jean-Eric Vergne in the drivers ‘ standings, just
Nico Rosberg is wearing a fancy suit, while he speaks in front of the formula E weekend in Berlin with the press. It is not a racing suit and more, with the former formula 1 world champion joins the Public. It is a fine dark blue thread with gebügeltem white shirt. Nico Rosberg, who is two and a half years in the formula 1 Cockpit for attention, has now become a Business-Man. And he has his shops in Green technologies and future-oriented products that will make Rosberg a Festival for sustainability for a large audience to experience. Flight taxis or the fastest electric car in the world he presents in the context of his self-created “green tech festival”. Everything on the edge of the formula-E-week-end in Berlin-Tempelhof. Finally, the formula E according to Rosberg for “technological Innovation, for future, for family-friendliness and for a racing world, comes to the people in the cities”. He himself is a shareholder of formula E and, therefore, the races for him and his “Start-Up” stage as well.
Cities, car companies and investors are competing for formula E
However, not only for Nico Rosberg, the electric has won a series of important. In the fifth year of its existence, the formula E has become final to a series that attracts many players.
Since the economic side would be: The technology group ABB for an estimated 12.5 million euros, the title sponsor of the race series, as well corporations such as Bosch and Heineken are the world recently as a Partner. The financial volume is significantly lower than in formula 1, but the signs are pointing to growth.
Formula E Investor Rosberg and Prince Albert II at the race in Monaco at the beginning of may
Moreover, cities are competing for the hosting of the race. Munich, Vienna, Shanghai, Marrakech – they all want to bring the E-racer on the Asphalt and take to it quite money in Hand. The reason the Tickets for the formula E race will sell in the different cities easily. Even people who had gefremdelt with Motorsport, it attracts in this season of the race in the inner cities, where there is no zoom PS-crying as in conventional racing series, but rather a pleasant buzzing and beautiful Overtaking on a tightly conceived tracks. Exactly the right ambience for a nice family outing on the weekend.
The formula E-team’s promise, in turn, by participating in the all-electric racing world primarily future-oriented “green” Marketing, and in a second step, the innovations in modern drives.
Limited opportunities for development, covers the costs
“The formula E is for the manufacturer, a laboratory, the future of electro-shape-powered vehicles,” says Alejandro Agag, the inventor and the Boss of the formula e. And actually makes the formula E progress. This season is particularly clear. Because after four years, in which the driver due to low battery power of the car once per race in a different car, had to change there since this season with no change of vehicle and more. The storage capacity of the batteries could be increased (to 52 instead of at the beginning, only 28 kilowatt-hours), so that now the same car, with the vehicle of the so-called “second Generation”, a complete race can be. Agag is pleased you could make it “not visible, how much electric technologies.” Also, motors up to 250 kW for more speed and top speeds of 280 kilometres an hour.
Formula E Boss Alejandro Agag comes from Spain and is a former Europe’s parliamentarians
This progress has not escaped the attention of Germany’s leading car manufacturers. Audi and VW are represented as a racing team in the formula E. Last season, Audi has even won the team classification and in the coming year Mercedes, and Porsche are rising, too. The four major German car manufacturer are in the same Motorsport series against each other. The there were never. And you think Nico Rosberg will make his former employer Mercedes in the coming year, so in the first season, anything other than play a supporting role in “The know, like the the in racing. Thus, I wouldn’t put it past Mercedes in any case, directly with the title ride.”
Unlike in formula 1, the Teams are set for the formula E technically narrower limits. Is started in a single Chassis with the same battery, at a cost of close to a Million euros. Only in the case of the powertrain, aerodynamics, suspension tuning, and Software can play the engineers. The caps is the cost. For comparison: the annual budget for The Mercedes team in the formula 1 is at around 400 million euros. However, it’s not always about the absolute limits of what is technically feasible within the rules to take advantage of.
Good Racing, close racing, different winners
Proven Berlin: Tempelhof is set in the racing calendar
It is understandable why Alejandro Agag Germany as a “key country” in the rise of formula E described. Another example of the ePrix of Berlin, which will be held next weekend in the fifth formula E season, for the fifth Time in the German capital. No other city with this is since the founding of the formula E championship from the beginning and without interruption. Good memories are the Germans, especially to the Cut in the last year, as Daniel ABT from Audi Sport Team Schaeffler is the first across the finish line went. Even more: As first formula E driver at all Abt made the so-called “Grand Slam” by having won the Pole Position, the fastest lap of the race and made the said victory – ironically, in the home race. “For me this was the best day in my racing career,” recalls Daniel Abt, who now wants to “try our best” to repeat this successful experience.
With the Win the this year, however, such a thing. The current season is as exciting as ever. In nine races there were eight different winners, and only twice the driver won the race that was previously started from Pole Position. In contrast to formula 1, with Mercedes, Ferrari and to a lesser extent maybe even Red Bull-Honda realistic victory chances, the output in the formula E is hardly predictable. The reasons Alejandro are Agag, according to the Hand: Due to the consistency in technique rather it is the driver, and the strategies of the Teams that make the difference. Since, in turn, both the driver as well as the racing teams are now arrived at a very high level, there is such a narrow power density. Daniel Abt also points to the fact that there is in formula E in the Qualifying round, only one attempt, so only one round per rider. The “ensures that it can go in a day quite quickly to the front and to the rear”.
The only driver who has won in this season so far, more than a race, the Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne by Techeetah Team. The Champion of the previous year is also in this season again in the lead, wafer-thin front of his team-mate André Lotterer, who wants to celebrate in his first victory ever.
Nico Rosberg will Happen on the 25 May from the outside look. For him, the formula 1 of the “ultimate gladiators-racing is still”. The formula E is the “formula of the future”, has also understood the formula-1 world champion – as an Investor in fine dark blue thread.