South Africa: Cape Town to host the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in 2023! [update #4]

update (20 October 2022): The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA)  has ratified the updated calendar for Season 9 of the 2022/23 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Cape Town will be the host of round five on 25 February 2023.

update (05 October 2022): The organiser of the inaugural Cape Town E-Prix have told the motorsport channel The Race "that the event will “categorically” happen next year". Iain Banner, one of the key figures in making the racing event in Cape Town happen, further told The Race: "This is a heavy lift for a little country like South Africa, there’s a big ecosystem. But we’re doing it, we will be racing on February 25".

update (07 September 2022): According to news reports, the 2022/23 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship will make a stop in Cape Town during the "E-Fest Cape Town", which will take place in February 2023 (22 - 25 February 2023; race on 25 February 2023?).

update (09 August 2022): The provisional schedule of the 2022/23 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship was released in July 2022. The Cape Town ePrix was set be introduced, after it was originally scheduled to debut in the 2021–22 season, but is now marked as yet to be decided. Formula E co-founder and chief championship officer Alberto Longo confirmed that they are working hard to include Cape Town. Formula E CEO Jamie Reigle told Motorsport.com in May 2022: "For Cape Town we have a signed agreement, it's announced - it was meant to happen this year [2021-22] but it was delayed because of COVID. They've started the civil works, things are progressing." We'll keep you posted!

There are three "TBD" race weekends listed on the provisional schedule:
Race #4 - TBD - 25 February 2023
Race #5 - TBD - 11 March 2023
Race #11 - TBD - 24 June 2023

Cape Town in South Africa is set to become the first sub-Saharan African city to host the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship E-Prix. Subject to approval by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) World Motor Sport Council, the world's leading all-electric race cars will wind their way through the Green Point and Waterfront district during the 2022/23 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. The full calendar and dates of the 2022/23 Championship will be released later this year.

src.: https://www.capetown.gov.za/

The Cape Town E-Prix will start at the Green Point precinct’s Vlei Road, where the field of world-class drivers will race with Signal Hill as a backdrop. Then it’s a left turn into Helen Suzman Boulevard, and another left into Granger Bay Boulevard, presenting the racers with two sharp chicanes. Drivers will then head along the ocean front on Mouille Point’s Beach Road, before taking a sharp left-hander into Fritz Sonnenberg Road and a final right to reach the finish line.

The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship is a single-seater motorsport championship for electric cars. It is somehow the electric equivalent of the Formula One World Championship. The racing series was conceived in 2011; the inaugural championship race was held in Beijing in September 2014. Since 2020, the series has FIA world championship status. 

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