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SA Formula E’s Cape Town round postponed to 2023

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Next year’s planned South African round of the ABB FIA Formula E championship has been postponed to 2023.

The race for electricallypowered, single-seater race cars was to have been held in Cape Town on February 26 2022, the first time SA was included on the international calendar, but has been held back a year due to the ongoing impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, organisers said.

The race in Cape Town will be the first time an FIA singleseater world championship race is staged in SA since the 1993

Formula One Grand Prix at Kyalami. It is intended to be a five-year commitment to host E-Prix in Cape Town.

Iain Banner, chairperson of race promoters e-Movement, said: “We have signed a longterm agreement with Formula E to stage the Cape Town E-Prix and look forward to delivering a marquee event for many years to come.

“Bringing the Formula E to SA has always been part of a broader vision to accelerate the transformation of the Cape and SA into an innovation hub that can drive the renewable energy and mobility transition across the continent and make sure it remains relevant and positioned to thrive over the next 50 years. We need to contribute to job creation, skills transfer and help grow the economy.”

He said the race will be the focal point of a weeklong programme of activities including an e-Mobility festival to showcase the potential of electric vehicles, and an e-Invest Summit

to attract global investors.

Co-founder and chief championship officer of Formula E Alberto Longo said: “While we are of course disappointed to postpone our first race in Cape Town, we have received a hugely positive response from those in our ecosystem.”

The sixth season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, which ran from February to August, was contested by 12 teams with two drivers each. The championship was won by Nyck de Vries in a MercedesEQ.

Formula E has revealed a 16race calendar next year, with new events in Indonesia, Canada and South Korea added for the eighth running of the allelectric series.

2022 Formula E calendar

● January 28-29 — Diriyah, Saudi Arabia

● February 12 — Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico,

● March 5 — country and venue TBC

● March 19 — China, venue TBC

● April 9 — Rome, Italy

● April 30 — Monaco

● May 14 — Berlin, Germany

● June 4 — Jakarta, Indonesia

● July 2 — Vancouver Canada,

● July 16-17 — New York, US

● July 30-31 — London, UK

● August 13-14 — Seoul, South Korea

WE HAVE SIGNED A LONG-TERM AGREEMENT … AND LOOK FORWARD TO DELIVERING A MARQUEE EVENT FOR YEARS TO COME

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