Formula E is ready to start Season 11, with the first race in December.
Season 10 ended in July, with Pascal Wehrlein coming on top of the standing and winning the World Title and Jaguar conquering the Teams championship. Teams and drivers are preparing for the new season, but their time is limited. The Gen3 Evo cars will be on track for the first time in November, with the Valencia tests scheduled between the 4th and the 7th of November. One month later, on the 7th of December, Season 11 will officially start in Brazil. The Sao Paulo E-Prix is ready to open the dances of a new chapter of Formula E.
In the latest years, Formula E seasons have started in January, taking place in a single year. This was a choice of the championship, which changed its planning in 2020, after the Covid-19 pandemic. Between Season 7 and Season 10, Formula E organized its rounds from January to July, while in the past the season started in November of the previous year.
The choice to start in December
The electric championship returns to the original schedule, in a way to fit more races during the eight months of Season 11, with the final round that will take place at the end of July, as in the latest editions. The new organization has allowed Formula E to add seventeen races to the 2024-2025 calendar, which becomes the longest season of the championship’s history. This choice brings Sao Paulo to host two Formula E races in a year, with the Brazilian city which became a Formula E venue in March, in the race won by the McLaren driver Sam Bird.
Formula E chose to start the season in December also to avoid clash weekends with Formula 1, which – in the past years – finished the championship in November. The original plan of Formula E didn’t find the hoped success, with F1 scheduling the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the last appointment of the season, between the 6th and the 8th of December at one point in F1’s history.
The new schedule
After the early start in December, Formula E is going to take a long break, returning to race only on the 11th of January, on the occasion of the Mexico City E-Prix. With the Sao-Paulo E-Prix taking place in December, the electric championship could add a new round to the challenging 2025 calendar. The South American city shouldn’t have issues with that, with the layout situated in an accessible part of the city.
After the race in Mexico, FE will come back in action in February, with the double-header in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. In March, the location is yet to be decided. After that, in April, Formula E will fly to Miami, returning to the American city after ten years. May will be the trickiest month, with the double round of Monaco followed by the one in Tokyo and the double-header in Shanghai. In June we will have the Jakarta E-Prix, followed by the Berlin double round in mid-July. Finally, the season will end in London, with the double-header hosted in London.
