Re: The Formula E Thread

[Milan655]

Was really hoping for Buemi....

Bruno Senna is a dick.

Uh, not sure why? Buemi was the one who kept hitting him - sure, he was maybe a bit overzealous with his defending, but Buemi never really got far enough alongside to the point where Senna should give up the position. Would've preferred that Buemi won it, but it's his own damn fault for pushing too hard on cold tyres.

IIRC Buemi got along side on the last lap and Senna just kind of shoved him to the point where Buemi would have hit the wall. I might have said this out of wanted Buemi to win the title and it happening so soon, to be fair.

At the start of the move, Buemi also forced Senna nearly into the outside wall. Senna then proceeded to take his racing line which the car in front is permitted and has the right to do so.

[Alta]

Giving this topic a big bumperino as the 2015-2016 season is starting tomorrow with the Beijing E-Prix. Here's the happenings on this season of Formula E.

Teams:

ABT Audi Sport: The Audi team returns with the same line-up of Daniel Abt and Lucas Di Grassi

Amlin Andretti: Andretti takes Aguri's sponsor for themselves, their driver line-up consists of a Indycar Fan favorite in Simona De Silvestro and 2012 Formula Renault 3.5 champion Robin Frijins

Dragon Racing: The Dragon team returns with the line-up they had for the 2nd half of the season last year in Loic Duval and Jerome D'Ambrosio

Virgin Racing: The Virgin team comes back with the returning Sam Bird as well as gaining Former Andretti driver Jean-Eric Vergne. Jaime Alguersauri the teams former has since retired from racing.

Renault E.Dams: The E.Dams team retains both Nico Prost and last years runner-up Sebastian Buemi for the new season.

Mahindra Racing: Bruno Senna returns to the team for season 2 being joined by Former Venturi driver Nick Heidfeld who takes over for Karun Chandok.

NextEv TCR Formula E Team: The former China Racing goes under the name NextEv this season, retaining the 1st champion Nelson Piquet Jr and Oliver Turvey who ran in London last year comes on for a full-drive this year

Team Aguri: Aguri comes back with race winner and the guy who ran the bulk of the season for that team in Antonio Felix Da Costa also being joined by former GP2 driver Nathanael Berthon

Trulli Formula E Team: Trulli comes back but without the team's namesake driving one of the cars, Trulli will run Vitantonio Liuzzi who ran 4 races with the team last year and Amlin's former driver Salvador Duran

Venturi Racing: Venturi brings back Stephane Sarrizan for another season but also pick up former F1 champion, and slightly aggressive Nascar driver Jacques Villeneuve


Schedule:

The series picks up a date in France as well as another date at a different venue for this season, while losing the Monaco and Miami E-prix's.

R Event UTC Date
1 Beijing ePrix 08:00 2015/10/24
2 Putrajaya ePrix 08:00 2015/11/07
3 Punta del Este ePrix 19:00 2015/12/19
4 Buenos Aires ePrix TBA 2016/02/06
5 TBA TBA 2016/03/12 (Heavily implied to be a date in Mexico)
6 Long Beach ePrix TBA 2016/04/02
7 Paris ePrix TBA 2016/04/23
8 Berlin ePrix TBA 2016/05/21
9 Moscow ePrix TBA 2016/06/04
10 London ePrix I TBA 2016/07/02
11 London ePrix II TBA 2016/07/03


1st race is at 3:30 AM East Coast time Saturday morning.

[SpeedDemon37]

Highlights from the 2015 Beijing ePrix (race 1 of the 2015-2016 season):



Spoilers for the race below.

2015 Beijing ePrix:

[Alta]

Yeah was honestly a very good race, the new caution rules are a tad weird and need to be worked on but hopefully they'll fix that up.

One of the big storylines coming out of the race is the fact that the Trulli team missed the race entirely, they might miss Malaysia.

[Alta]

Wild 2nd race, go find on youtube if you can.

[Alta]

http://racing4everyone.eu/2015/11/07/formula-e-20152016-round02-putrajaya-eprix-race/ Here's a link for the 2nd race.

[Alta]

Chill 3rd race, Buemi takes his 2nd win...Piquet had a pretty big hit at the end while fighting for 9th with Vergne.

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