No redesign of the route necessary for the new Formula E Gen3 car

A weight reduction of 120 kg and an increase in performance of 100 kW – up to an equivalent of 470 hp – characterize the Gen3 set of rules, which will be introduced for the 2022-23 season and run until 2025-26.

Although the FIA ​​and FE have already worked to remove tight baffles on many tracks – including removing a complex from the final Peraltada corner in Mexico City for 2019-20 – simulations for the faster Gen3 cars don’t have one The need for extensive redesign of the route has been shown.

Speaking to Autosport, FE Chief Championship Officer Longo believes major changes to the narrower street layouts are planned but would be held back until a ‘Gen4’ car.

“With all the simulations we run on the Gen3, we won’t have to change these tracks. But that will likely happen in Gen4. We are ready for it, ”he said.

“Sometime in most of the places we do [race] We already have these plan Bs or possible extensions even on the track to add speed and acceleration.

“It’s being planned for Gen3, but it won’t be needed at all.”

After Audi and then BMW announced their decision to leave FE at the end of the immediate 2020/21 season, Longo added: “We understand the limitations we have for the sustainable future of the championship – it certainly costs”.

The final Gen3 proposal is also expected to include a fixed cost cap, with both Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff and McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown emphasizing the need to cap the rapid surge in FE spending.

This concern among teams and manufacturers – with Mahindra Racing the only roster to date to sign up to the Gen3 rules before the extended June 2021 deadline – is likely to limit the growth of the FE calendar.

The 2018-19 season featured 13 races, most to date, while the original 2020-21 schedule included 14 events. However, the calendar has since been withdrawn and FE will batch announce confirmed dates as organizers work to cement the races in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Longo told Autosport that FE would tentatively watch a maximum of 16 or 17 races during the Gen3 cycle.

“Until Gen3, I don’t think we’ll be doing more than 15 races,” he said.

“Then we develop a plan and discuss it internally to see whether we can basically take part in a larger number of races.

“I have to say, if we do it, we will do it with the consent of all ecosystems.

“We will make decisions in the family with all teams and manufacturers. We will never take a decision literally.

“To be honest, I don’t think it’s the right path for us in Formula E.

“Maybe a few more, 16, 17, maybe, but not up to 20 races or so.”