The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship will race on the streets of Tokyo for the first time in 2024 and make a return trip to Portland, Ore.
Officials of the all-electric open-wheel racing series and the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile unveiled a partial schedule for its 10th season of racing on Tuesday. That schedule also includes city races in Monaco, Rome, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Jakarta, Berlin, London and Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.
Diriyah, Rome, Berlin and London will be weekend doubleheaders. The rest of the stops will be one-race weekends on the 13-stop, 17-race campaign.
Three more venues are yet to be confirmed.
For Portland the June 29, 2024 date will mark a return trip to Portland International Raceway, site of this week’s race.
The race in Tokyo will be the first FIA-sanctioned world championship motorsport event held in that city, which has a climate action plan that aims to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050. Formula E boasts a racing formula in which cars emit zero emissions or engine noise.
“Tokyo will be a highlight of our historic tenth season,” said Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds. “We are also in advanced discussions with many more iconic world cities who are keen to host a Formula E race and create blockbuster world championship motorsport events with us. We expect this to be reflected in the updated calendar published later this year.”
2024 ABB FIA Formula E
Provisional Schedule
- Jan. 13 – Mexico City
- Jan. 26-27 – Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
- Feb. 10 – TBD
- Feb. 24 – TBD
- March 16 – Sau Paulo
- March 30 – Tokyo
- April 13-14 – Rome
- April 27 – Monaco
- May 11-12 – Berlin
- May 25 – TBD
- June 8 – Jakarta, Indonesia
- June 29 – Portland, Oregon
- July 20-21 – London
Mike Pryson covered auto racing for the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot and MLive Media Group from 1991 until joining Autoweek in 2011. He won several Michigan Associated Press and national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for auto racing coverage and was named the 2000 Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club’s Michigan Motorsports Writer of the Year. A Michigan native, Mike spent three years after college working in southwest Florida before realizing that the land of Disney and endless summer was no match for the challenge of freezing rain, potholes and long, cold winters in the Motor City.
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