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Formula E targeting Tokyo return for 2025
Formula E hasn’t even raced in Tokyo yet, but it is already eyeing a second race in the Japanese capital. The first Tokyo ePrix will take place on March 30, 2024, but a preliminary date of May 17, 2025 has already been targeted for season 11.
Like the upcoming Season 10 event, the second Tokyo ePrix will be hosted in cooperation with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and will help the city promote its aim of banning new combustion vehicles from 2030.
A Tokyo ePrix has long been in the works, with the city being among the first to express an interest in hosting a race of the all-electric series when it debuted in 2013. The news of it already locking in a second event comes as the track layout for the first Tokyo ePrix was revealed.
“We are excited to unveil the track for the inaugural Tokyo ePrix and are confident it will create a unique challenge for the 22 drivers in Formula E to showcase their elite driving skills and give fans in Tokyo an experience they will never forget,” said Alberto Longo, co-founder and chief championship officer of Formula E. “We are honored to be the first motorsport world championship to race on the streets of Tokyo.”
The 2023-24 Formula E season officially began last month with a four-day test in Valencia, but the first race won't take place until January 13 in Mexico City.
From then, a double-header event will take place on the streets of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia two weeks later, followed by trips to Hyderabad in India and Sao Paulo Brazil before the inaugural Tokyo race.
Afterwards another double-header event will take place at a yet-to-be announced location in Italy, with rounds in Monaco and back-to-back double-headers in Berlin, Germany and Shanghai, China following. The season will conclude with a round in Portland, Oregon, and two races in the UK and London’s ExCeL.
Dominik Wilde
Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?
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