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Tag: Marrakesh E-Prix

  • A look into Marrakesh

    We are back racing once again, with Formula E and we are in Marrakesh, Morocco for Round 10 of Season 8, where the championship is heating up as its a four way battle for the Drivers’ title.

    Mercedes-EQ Stoffel Vandoorne, still leads the way in the drivers championship with a five point lead over nearest challenger and double champion, Jean-Eric Vergne. Edoardo Mortara sits in third and the winner last time out at the inaugural Jakarta E-Prix, Mitch Evans rounds out the top four, with him being 12 points away from the lead of the championship.

    The Circuit-

    The Atlas mountains provide a stunning back drop, with it being Formula E’s fifth trip to the city’s centuries-old Agdal district with Marrakesh first being featured in 2016.

    The track follows the form the circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan – named after the Crown Price of Morocco – before spilling out onto the streets of Marrakesh’s hotel district.

    Renowned for being an energy zapping circuit, the fast and highly technical track features 12 turns, three straights and a series of bends completing a track length of 2.971km.

    Timings-

    Friday 1st-

    • Free Practice 1- 17:00pm (BST)

    Saturday 2nd-

    • Free Practice 2- 07:30am (BST)
    • Qualifying- 09:40am
    • Round 10- 17:04pm

  • Marrakesh to host Round 10

    Formula E and the FIA have announced that Marrakesh will be hosting Round 10 of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, on Saturday the 2nd July.

    The 2022 Marrakesh E-Prix will once again be held at the Circuit Automobile International Moulay El Hassan street circuit with the support of local authorities, restores the schedule of 16 races in Season 8 after the Vancouver E-Prix was postponed.

    It will be the fifth time the Moroccan city of Marrakesh will host an E-Prix, subject to the FIA World Motor Sport Council and ASN approval, following the Season 3 debut in November 2016 and further races in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

    Formula E seems to have remained tight lipped on the specific reasons for the Vancouver postponement but it is known that a permit was not issued for the race after issues between the city council and local promoters, the OSS Group.

    The Circuit Automobile International Moulay El Hassan, was at one stage going to feature on the 2022 calendar, as a replacement for a planned race in China. But Formula E officials decided instead to swallow a seven-week gap between the Mexico City and Rome races instead.

    This isn’t the first time Formula E has had issues with calendars delivery, before the pandemic with a variety of political and commercial problems scuppering plans for races that ranged from Brussels, Rio de Janiero and Cape Town, the latter of which was postponed from this February due to a variety of complications.