Formula E organizers continue to develop a plan to introduce a full and electrified youth championship ladder despite the fact that the pandemic has delayed various activities.
Formula E co-founder and championship director Alberto Longo told Autosport that the series is working to create a fully electric single-seater ladder.
“We obviously are planning to have a full ladder to Formula E. We need to electrify the whole ladder starting even from karting. We have a very aggressive and very clear targets on that.”
Longo explained that although COVID has been a difficult obstacle in all these plans, they are still working on another category that would offer different championships under Formula E.
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He also described the importance of the parts used in Gen1 machines as the basis for a junior category. “Gen1 cars at the moment have been, more or less, not all but some of them, are being owned now by the collectors. They really wanted to have a piece of history, which is the Gen1 car,” he noted.
This refers in part to Adrián Campos Jr who took demonstration laps at the recent Valencia E-Prix in memory of his late father aboard the title-winning Gen1 car of the inaugural Formula E champion by Nelson Piquet Jr, which was rebuilt recently before the tribute.
Furthermore, there are plans underway to beef up the Formula E calendar on all competition weekends, with the offer for the Vancouver E-Prix in July 2022 notably including the proposal for a celebrity race.
This would follow the short-lived e-Touring Car Challenge that used standardized race-ready Volkswagen e-Golfs and preceded the Hong Kong E-Prix in 2016.
Written by | Gabriel Sayago
