Some 82 world-class racers have taken to the wheel in Formula E, including six world-class drivers who further grace the electric single-seater series.
One of them is Nick Heidfeld, who raced in Formula 1 from 2000 until the middle of the 2011 season, spending most of that time at Sauber.
The German driver scored 13 podiums in his 185 races and currently shares the record for most podiums in F1 without a win with McLaren’s Lando Norris.
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Kamui Kobayashi
Kobayashi made his Formula 1 debut in the penultimate round of the 2009 season with Toyota before taking up the full-time driver position at Sauber for the following seasons.
In the 2012 season, Kobayashi became the first Japanese driver to score a podium finish on home soil when he finished third in that year’s Japanese Grand Prix.
After a break in 2013, in which he made his debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship, Kobayashi returned to F1 in 2014 for Caterham.
Another notable racer noted by Formula E in its report is Scott Speed, who after qualifying a respectable 11th in the 2015 Miami E-Prix, worked his way through the field to finish second behind Nico Prost.
Unfortunately, the next three races did not go well for the American and he left the team after the Berlin E-Prix. Speed made the switch to the World Rallycross Championship and became a three-time champion in the series now called American Rallycross.
Stoffel Vandoorne
Vandoorne is undoubtedly a Formula E fan favorite, as he was one of the drivers who secured FANBOOST (a fan-voted energy boost during the race that was part of Formula E until the GEN3 era).
Prior to his move to Formula E, the Belgian raced for McLaren in Formula 1. His F1 debut came when he was called up to replace the injured Fernando Alonso at the 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix, and the rookie immediately impressed by scoring a point on his debut with a 10th-place finish.
He joined McLaren full-time for the 2017 and 2018 seasons, and joined HWA Racelab for the 2018-19 Formula E season ahead of Mercedes’ entry into the series with the team.
Meanwhile, Nelson Piquet Jr. earned his best result with second place in the 2008 German Grand Prix while racing for Renault. After leaving F1, Piquet Jr. participated in several NASCAR and rallycross races until joining the China/NEXTEV team for the inaugural Formula E season.
Bruno Senna
Bruno Senna spent two and a half years competing in Formula 1, one of them with Williams Racing, the same team that had represented his uncle, one of the most revered drivers in motorsport history, Ayrton Senna.
Senna’s year at Williams was his most successful in F1, as he scored 31 points to finish 16th in the championship, just one position behind teammate Pastor Maldonado.
