2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship Calendar Preview

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The  ABB FIA Formula E World Championship is preparing to put on another exciting season of action, as season 11 action prepares to get underway in November.

Following the first 10 seasons that have seen nine different champions with Jean-Eric Vergne being the only multiple champion in Formula E's championship history but there is a good chance that we could have another driver to join him with potentially Pascal Wehrlein, Antonio Felix Da Costa and Jake Dennis wanting to challenge once again.

In the upcoming 2024/25 season of Formula E there will be 16 rounds of the season with trips to South America, Asia, Europe and North America. Track action will begin with pre-season testing which will take place in Spain. 

Pre-season testing would originally supposed to be taking place in Valencia but following tragic flooding, Valencia would be unfit to host Formula E testing however pre-season testing would still be able to be completed. It would just instead be taking place in Madrid.

The season will begin at Sao Paulo, Brazil and will end with a double header in the United Kingdom capital city of London with trips to China, Monaco and Indonesia in between. In this debut Formula E piece for F1 Journal, we will have a look at the season 11 calendar for 2024/25 and we will have a look at where each round will take place.

Pre-season testing: Madrid, Spain - 5-8 November 2024

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Following the tragic and horrific scenes in Valencia spain, with the severe flooding that has wrecked many people's livelihoods, it would be not fit for purpose that the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship would head there at the start of November for pre-season testing in what is set to be a fantastic season of action.

Formula E will prepare to still have a pre-season testing and Spain have aided brilliantly in compensating Formula E by moving their pre-season testing for season 24/25 and the 11th season in the championship's history to Madrid - the Spanish capital.

Formula 1 are set to move the Spanish Grand Prix to Madrid so it is no great surprise to see Madrid offering to create themselves a positive picture in the eyes of another FIA open-wheel world championship. Over the span of four days, Madrid is set to host the only pre-season testing for the season.

Hosting pre-season testing for season 11 of the Formula E Championship will be the Circuit del Jarama which is situated in the San Sebastian de Los Reyes region of the Spanish capital. 

The Circuit del Jarama is a circuit that motorsport fans might recognise as it has hosted rounds to the FIA Formula One World Championship in previous years gone by and in particular the Spanish Grand Prix before it moved to the infamous Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya.

Circuit del Jarama has also played host to the European Le Mans series, Motorcycle Grand Prix racing (MotoGP), the World Touring Car Championship and the Spanish F4 Championship.

It has certainly been a challenge for all involved in Formula E to have to move pre-season testing before the opening round of the 2024/25 season in Sao Paulo getting underway before Christmas in December. 

As it is unsafe Formula E has just simply not been able to go to the Ricardo Tormo Circuit due to safety concerns and the widespread damage that has occurred in Valencia, while the Spanish city is trying to recover from the overwhelming shock and tragedy that a year's worth of rainfall in just eight hours has caused.

Testing will run between the 5-8 November, with the first ever all-female test taking place on November 8 - a landmark day for female participation in motorsport and Formula E.

Round 1: Sao Paulo, Brazil - 6-7 December 2024

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To start the 2024/25 Formula E campaign, the world championship heads to Sao Paulo for the opening round of the championship and the start of season 11, situated in Brazil.

Sao Paulo played host to an E-Prix for the first time in the 2022/23 campaign, which was season nine of the Formula E Championship and this will be third ever visit to Brazil with every single Brazilian race in Formula E taking place at Sao Paulo.

Taking place around the Anhembi Sambadrome, which is the Sao Paulo street circuit, the opening round is bound to be exciting with the 22 drivers and 11 teams looking to start their campaigns off.

The track has 14 corners and a lap distance of 2.933km with a lap record of 1:13.684 that was set by 2024 winner Sam Bird, who set the lap record in 2023 when driving for Jaguar.

The opening round at Sao Paulo will be the only round of the season 11 2024/25 championship to happen in 2024 - the other 15 rounds will take place in 2025.

Round 2: Mexico City, Mexico - 10-11 January 2025

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For the second round of the season and the first of the season to be held in the calendar year of 2025, round two of the 2024/25 season of the Formula E Championship will be held at Mexico City, the capital of Mexico.

The Mexico City E-Prix, which takes place at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez opened the 2023/24 season campaign as eventual champion Pascal Wehrlein went on to take victory.

Formula 1 fans may recognise the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez as this is the venue that hosts the Mexican Grand Prix but the Formula 1 and Formula E track layouts are entirely different.

The current Mexico City E-Prix layout is made up of 19 corners and has a lap distance of 2.628km, which is equal to 1.633 miles. The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez has seen four different layouts and this current layout has been used from the 2022/23 season to date. The lap record was set in 2023, by that year's eventual champion, Jake Dennis. The British driver holds the record with a 1:14.195.

Mexico City will just see one round of the season 11 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship and it will play host to round two of 16 and the first after Christmas.

Rounds 3 & 4: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - 13-15 February 2025

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For rounds three and four of the 2024/25 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship will be heading to the Saudi Arabian capital Jeddah for the first double-header weekend of season 11.

It is not unusual for Saudi Arabia to host a double header in the Formula E Championship, it has been done ever since the start of the 2019/20 season, which is over five years prior. However, the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship has done all of the Saudi Arabia double-round weekends at Diriyah.

This time it will be a change of location as the Formula E championship will have its first double-round weekend of the season in Jeddah, at a shortened version of the Corniche Circuit, which has the full-version used for the FIA Formula One World Championship.

The short layout of the Jeddah Corniche Circuit that has been raced on before is one of 12 corners and has a lap distance of 3.45km which is equal to 2.144 miles. There is no Formula E lap record as this is a brand new circuit for the championship to encounter.

This will host the third and fourth rounds of the championship for season 11 of the ABB FIA Formula E season and that will marker a quarter of the 2024/25 campaign complete.

Round 5: Miami, Florida, United States - 11-12 March 2025

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Formula E will head to the sunny state of the United States of America, Florida, and specifically to Miami for round five of the 2024/25 World Championship.

This will be just the one round of the season in the United States and it will be the only trip Formula E will make to the United States for season 11 and it will be a return to Miami after they have raced there in previous years gone by.

Formula E first raced at Miami 2015 but that is the only ever time the championship has raced in the city but it will be a different circuit for the 2025 Miami E-Prix as opposed to the Biscayne Bay Street Circuit that was used in the inaugural season of the championship 2014/15.

In 2025, Formula E will head to the Homestead-Miami Speedway for the year's E-Prix and it is a circuit that is made up of 15 corners and has a lap distance of 3.512km. As Formula E has never raced at the circuit before, there is no lap record.

This will be the second brand new circuit Formula E will visit out of the two brand new ones added to the championship calendar. It will play host to round five of season 11

Rounds 6 & 7: Monte Carlo, Monaco - 02-04 May 2025

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For the second double-round weekend of the season, in May, Formula E makes its first trip to Europe for the 2024/25 season as the world championship heads to the principality of Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Monaco is the first of three European visits on the 2024/25 season calendar with trips to Berlin and London to come before the season reaches its conclusion in July and it is a circuit that often produces great drama whenever Formula E rolls into Monte Carlo.

Monte Carlo is world-renown for its motorsport legacy with the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix being one of the most famous Grand Prix on the Formula 1 calendar for the prestige and the narrow, twisty and challenging turns on the Monte Carlo street circuit. Grand Prix racing first began back in 1929.

Formula E will use the Grand Prix circuit for the E-Prix itself which is made up of 19 corners and has a lap distance of 3.337km. The world championship first raced in Monte Carlo back in 2015 and there has been three different layouts that Formula E has encountered in the last decade.

The lap record is held by Jake Dennis after he set a 1:31.119 in 2023 as he would go onto win that year's championship. This famous race track will play host, in May, to rounds six and seven of season 11 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship (2024/25). 

Rounds 8 & 9: Tokyo, Japan - 16-18 May 2025

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For the third double-round weekend of the 2024/25 Formula E championship season, the world championship heads to the far east of the globe, which is more specifically the Japanese capital of Tokyo for rounds eight and nine.

Formula E made its first ever visit to Tokyo in the most recent season of 2023/24, which was season 10 in the championship's history.

This year will be the first time that the Tokyo E-Prix will be a double-round weekend as the inaugural Tokyp E-Prix that happened last year was just a singular round. The action impressed that much, Formula E was invited back for a double-round.

The Tokyo E-Prix Circuit which is named simply the Tokyo street circuit and is one that is made up of 20 corners and it has a lap distance of 2.585km. The lap record which was the fastest lap set last season, was set by McLaren's Sam Bird who walked away with a 1:19.731. He wil be hoping to replicate some of that speed in this coming season.

Formula E will complete the first half of the season fully as the double-round crosses over into the second half of the season as Tokyo will oversee rounds eight and nine of the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

Rounds 10 & 11: Shanghai, China - 30th May-1st June 2025

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For just the second time in the championship's history, Formula E heads to the Shanghai International Circuit for rounds 10 and 11 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship 2024/25 season.

Formula E first visited Shanghai for the 2023/24 season and it is a different variation of the Shanghai International Circuit that is used for the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix. 

Last season in Formula E there was so much great action that had many on the edge of their seats and it is set to be another great round at the end of May and start of June. Shanghai will be the third successive double-round of the championship 

Formula E's variation of the Shanghai International Circuit is made up of 12 corners and has a lap distance of 3.051km. The lap record held across the two rounds held last year was Norman Nato of Andretti in race two. The Frenchman set a 1:15.358

Shanghai International Circuit will see its second ever visit from Formula E for another double-round just like the last season.

Round 12: Jakarta, Indonesia - 20-21 June 2025

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Formula E is finally returning to Indonesia as it heads to the Indonesian capital Jakarta for a sole round in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship for the 2024/25 season.

Jakarta has hosted Formula E races many times before but had to miss out in the 2023-24 season due to the presidential election taking place in the country on the same week that Formula E was heading to Jakarta.

The world championship first came to Jakarta in 2022 and therefore it is one of the most recent additions to the championship and has had double-round weekends throughout the hosting of Formula E races.

Jakarta International E-Prix circuit is where the Formula E races will occur and it is set to be an exciting event. The circuit itself is made up of 18 corners and has a lap distance of 2.37km. The lap record was set by Andretti's Jake Dennis in 2023 race 2. The British driver has the record of a 1:09.171.

Round 12 of the championship will be held at Indonesia and this will be the final single-round weekend of the season and the final non-European round too.
 

Round 13 & 14: Berlin, Germany - 11-13 July 2025

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For the penultimate weekend of action of the season, Formula E will head to Berlin for a double-round weekend as the first double-round of two in July.

Berlin in Germany is a staple to the ABB FIA Formula E calendar and has enjoyed so much racing and seen huge and significant moments in the championships gone by. With the 2024/25 season of Formula E having two of its final four rounds of the season at the German capital, it promises to have an impact once again.

The Tempelhoff Airport street circuit had a change of layout for 2024 and they will be continuing to use that layout for the 2025 season and it was a layout of such high intensity and thrilling drama.

Formula E's newest layout of the Tempelhoff Airport circuit is made up of 15 corners and has a lap distance of 2.343km. The fastest lap set across the races in 2024 was by Andretti's Norman Nato, who in the first race displayed a lap time of 1:02.972.

​The Tempelhoff Airport circuit in Berlin will play host to rounds 13 and 14 of the 2024/25 ABB Formula E World Championship.

Rounds 15 & 16: London, United Kingdom - 25-27 July 2025

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To conclude an exhilarating season in prospect, at the end of July, the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E Championship will conclude in the UK capital, London, for a double-round weekend.

The past two seasons of the championship have both concluded with a double-round weekend at London and both of them have seen the drivers' championship go down to the final race - with Jake Dennis being crowned champion in 2023 and most recently Pascal Wehrlein being crowned in July 2024. 

London's venue for the E-Prix in modern times is based at ExCel London and it has been since the 2022/23 campaign. The venue has held the final round of the season ever since it was brought back onto the calendar.

It is a very unique circuit as half of the track is indoors and half of it is outdoors. The circuit is made up of 20 corners and has a lap distance of 2.086km. The lap record of the latest variation of layout is from Jake Hughes, who set a 1:11.331.

This will be rounds 15 and 16 which will conclude the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship (season 11).

Brandon Whiteside
Writer - F1 Journal