2018 Punta del Este Eprix OFFICIAL FOUNDING PARTNER & TYRE SUPPLIER SATURDAY THE circuit PLAYA brava beach MARCH 17 2018 - 2017 / 2018 ABB FIA FORMULA E CHAMPIONSHIP 2,785 RACE 6 KM ANTI- - 20 CLOCKWISE PUNTA DEL ESTE TURNS URUGUAY THE 2018 PUNTA DEL ESTE E-PRIX The track runs along the Atlantic shoreline up to Turn 9. Wind and sand rd 3 running can trouble the drivers. Fast track (2015 1 race (37 laps) pole position average speed: 132kph) WINNER 2015 Sébastien Buemi FORMULA E NEWS (Renault e.dams/Michelin) »The Punta del Este E-Prix marks the 2017/2018 Formula E TIMETABLE POLE POSITION 2015 Championship’s halfway point Jérôme d’Ambrosio »Season 4 has produced four different winners after the first five (Dragon Racing/Michelin) races FRIDAY, MARCH 16 1m15.498s »Daniel Abt is the 10th driver to have won a Formula E E-Prix 3:00 pm 30 minutes Shakedown FASTEST RACE LAP 2015 »Formula E’s next-generation Gen2 all-electric single-seater was Sébastien Buemi SATURDAY, MARCH 17 (Renault e.dams/Michelin) unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show »Nissan, Audi and DS have revealed their respective liveries for 1m17.413s 8:00 am 45 minutes Free Practice 1 the 2018/2019 championship Second win in a row in Uruguay for Buemi »The Geneva Motor Show also saw Michelin present its new 10:30 am 30 minutes Free Practice 2 tyre – the MICHELIN Pilot Sport Nelson Piquet Jr’s 12:00 noon Qualifying INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE spectacular crash The new MICHELIN Pilot Sport is both lighter and more energy-efficient than ever thanks to a particularly ambitious 12:45 pm Super Pole Withdrawals of Jacques development programme. Villeneuve (crash in It will make its first competitive appearance when Season 5 of 4:00 pm 37 laps Race qualifying) and Team Trulli the ABB FIA Formula E Championship kicks off in December. 5:00 pm Podium ceremony MORE DETAILS HERE CIRCUIT TIME (GMT -3) - MICHELIN AND THE 2018 PUNTA DEL ESTE E-PRIX » Tyre: MICHELIN Pilot Sport EV2 (front: 245/40x18 / rear: Serge 305/40x18) Grisin » Tyre allocation: 5 front and 5 Formula E Championship rear tyres per driver Programme Manager, » F irst Punta del Este E-Prix for Michelin Motorsport the Pilot Sport EV2 “Punta del Este features a combination THE 2018 PUNTA of fast curves and tight chicanes. The DEL ESTE E-PRIX layout is identical to the one we saw » U ruguay is home to Latin in 2015, which included a modified America’s first road for electric "THE WIND AND THE chicane compared with the first visit vehicles. It runs from Colonia in 2014. The wind and the nearby del Sacramento to Punta del NEARBY BEACH MEAN beach mean there is often sand on the Este and incorporates six THERE IS OFTEN SAND ON track, so grip has tended to be rather roadside charging stations. low early in the day in the past. The Battery charging is free until THE TRACK" racing line cleans up, though, and grip March 21. improves. Tyre wear is quite low.” » In 2017, Montevideo’s mayor was the first Latin American mayor to own an electric car. MICHELIN » Uruguay has considerably AND THE 2018 PUNTA DEL ESTE E-PRIX improved its carbon footprint over the past 10 years. More than 90 percent of the TECHNICAL data electricity it produces comes renewable sources (wind, » Pilot Sport biomass, solar, etc.). EV2 » A s of end-2017, there were 489 Front: 245/40x18 & electric cars and 376 hybrids on Rear: 305/40x18 the road in Uruguay. PUNTA DEL ESTE TRIVIA Developed specifically for the » P unta del Este is a popular FIA Formula E Championship Uruguayan coastal resort, The first 18-inch single-seater sometimes referred to as the racing tyre Saint Tropez of Latin America The first single-seater racing » Punta del Este sits on the shore tyre capable of competing in of Rio de la Plata, opposite dry and wet conditions Argentina The first tyre capable of lasting » T he town’s population stands an entire race meeting at around 20,000, but that figure increases some 20-fold in summer » Punta del Este is a 140km Size (front/rear) 24/64-18 / 27/68-18 drive from Uruguay’s capital, Width (front/rear) 245mm / 305mm Tread width Montevideo 240mm / 270mm (front/rear) » U ruguay has produced four Side wall height (front/rear) 98mm / 122mm (i.e. 40 percent of tread width) Formula 1 drivers, plus the four-time Production Car World Rim diameter 18 inches Rally Champion Gustavo Trelles Weight (front/rear) 8.8kg / 10.9kg Type of tread pattern Asymmetric, non-directional » Casapueblo – the work of Uruguayan artist Carlos Paez Usage Circuits, street circuits, asphalt, concrete, wet or dry weather Vilaro and home to a museum, Number of tyres taken to each race 200 (160 new tyres + 40 from the previous race) a hotel and an art gallery – Weight saving (compared with the 1.1kg front necessitated 36 years’ work. MICHELIN Pilot Sport EV) 1.4kg rear Weight saving per set of four tyres 5kg (11 percent) Rolling resistance Lowered by 16 percent (equivalent to more than 2km, or one lap) 2018 punta del este E-PRIX ENTRY LIST AUDI SPORT ABT SCHAEFFLER MAHINDRA RACING LUCAS di Grassi (BRA) Nick Heidfeld (DEU) Wins: 6 Wins: 0 Podium: 21 Podium: 8 Pole position: 3 Pole position: 0 Daniel Abt (DEU) Felix Rosenqvist (SWE) Wins: 1 Wins: 3 Podium: 5 Podium: 7 Pole position: 1 Pole position: 5 MS + ANDRETTI FORMULA E NIO FORMULA E TEAM Antonio Felix Da Costa (PRT) Oliver Turvey (GBR) Wins: 1 Wins: 0 Podium: 1 Podium: 1 Pole position: 0 Pole position: 1 Kamui Kobayashi (JPN) Luca Filippi (ITA) Wins: 0 Wins: 0 Podium: 0 Podium: 0 Pole position: 0 Pole position: 0 DS VIRGIN RACING RENAULT E.DAMS Sam Bird (GBR) Nicolas Prost (FRA) Wins: 6 Wins: 3 Podium: 11 Podium: 5 Pole position: 4 Pole position: 3 Alex Lynn (GBR) Sébastien Buemi (CHE) Wins: 0 Wins: 12 Podium: 0 Podium: 20 Pole position: 1 Pole position: 9 DRAGON TECHEETAH Jérôme d’Ambrosio (BEL) Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA) Wins: 2 Wins: 2 Podium: 6 Podium: 10 Pole position: 2 Pole position: 6 José María López (ARG) André Lotterer (DEU) Wins: 0 Wins: 0 Podium: 2 Podium: 1 Pole position: 0 Pole position: 0 PANASONIC JAGUAR RACING VENTURI FORMULA E Nelson Piquet Jr (BRA) Maro Engel (DEU) Wins: 2 Wins: 0 Podium: 5 Podium: 1 Pole position: 1 Pole position: 0 Mitch Evans (NZL) Edoardo Mortara (CHE) Wins: 0 Wins: 0 Podium: 1 Podium: 1 Pole position: 0 Pole position: 0 FIA Formula e DRIVERS STANDING TOT. HK HK MA CL MX UR IT FR DE DE CH US US VERGNE J. (FRA) 1 TECHEETAH 21 12 10 28 10 81 SPARK-RENAULT - RENAULT Z.E 16 ROSENQVIST F. (SWE) 2 MAHINDRA RACING 0 29 25 12 3 SPARK-MAHINDRA - MAHINDRA 69 M3ELECTRO BIRD S. (GBR) 3 DS VIRGIN RACING 25 10 15 11 0 61 SPARK-CITROËN - VIRGIN DSV-02 BUEMI S. (CHE) 4 RENAULT E.DAMS 0 1 21 15 15 52 SPARK-RENAULT - RENAULT Z.E 16 PIQUET JR. N. (BRA) 5 PANASONIC JAGUAR RACING 12 0 13 8 12 NIO FORMULA E TEAM 45 FORMULAE 002 ABT D. (DEU) 6 ABT SCHAEFFLER AUDI SPORT 11 0 1 0 25 SPARK-ABT SPORTSLINE - ABT 37 SCHAEFFLER FE02 EVANS M. (NZL) 7 PANASONIC JAGUAR RACING 0 15 0 6 8 29 SPARK-JAGUAR - JAGUAR I-TYPE 1 MORTARA E. (CHE) 8 VENTURI FORMULA E 6 18 0 0 4 SPARK-VENTURI - VENTURI 28 VM200-FE-02 TURVEY O. (GBR) 9 NEXTEV NIO 0 8 0 0 18 SPARK-NEXTEV - NEXTEV TCR 26 FORMULAE 002 HEIDFELD N. (DEU) 10 MAHINDRA RACING 15 0 6 0 0 SPARK-MAHINDRA - MAHINDRA 21 M3ELECTRO LOTTERER A. (DEU) 11 TECHEETAH - - 0 18 0 18 SPARK-RENAULT - RENAULT Z.E 16 FELIX DA COSTA A. (PRT) 12 MS AMLIN ANDRETTI 8 0 0 2 6 16 SPARK-ANDRETTI - ATEC-02 LYNN A. (GBR) 13 DS VIRGIN RACING 4 2 2 0 1 9 SPARK-CITROËN - VIRGIN DSV-02 J. LOPEZ (ARG) 14 DRAGON RACING - - 8 0 0 8 SPARK-PENSKE - PENSKE 701-EV PROST N. (FRA) 15 RENAULT E.DAMS 2 4 0 1 0 7 SPARK-RENAULT - RENAULT Z.E 16 ENGEL M. (DEU) 16 VENTURI FORMULA E 0 6 0 0 0 SPARK-VENTURI - VENTURI 6 VM200-FE-02 D’AMBROSIO J. (BEL) 17 DRAGON RACING 0 0 0 4 0 4 SPARK-PENSKE - PENSKE 701-EV 18 T. BLOMQVIST - - 4 0 0 MS&AD ANDRETTI FORMULA E 4 DI GRASSI L. (BRA) 19 ABT SCHAEFFLER AUDI SPORT - - 0 0 3 SPARK-ABT SPORTSLINE - ABT 3 SCHAEFFLER FE02 FILIPPI l. (ITA) 20 NEXTEV NIO 1 0 0 0 0 SPARK-NEXTEV - NEXTEV TCR 1 FORMULAE 002 KOBAYASHI K. (JPN) 21 MS AMLIN ANDRETTI 0 0 - - - 0 SPARK-ANDRETTI - ATEC-02 JANI N. (CHE) 22 DRAGON RACING 0 0 - - - 0 SPARK-PENSKE - PENSKE 701-EV FIA Formula e TEAMS standing TOT. HK HK MA CL MX UR IT FR DE DE CH US US 1 TECHEETAH 21 12 10 46 10 - - - - - - - - 99 2 MAHINDRA RACING 15 29 31 12 3 - - - - - - - - 90 3 PANASONIC JAGUAR RACING 12 15 13 14 20 - - - - - - - - 74 4 DS VIRGIN RACING 29 12 17 11 1 - - - - - - - - 70 5 RENAULT E.DAMS 2 5 21 16 15 - - - - - - - - 59 6 AUDI SPORT ABT SCHAEFFLER 11 0 1 0 28 - - - - - - - - 40 7 VENTURI FORMULA E TEAM 6 24 0 0 4 - - - - - - - - 34 8 NIO FORMULA E TEAM 1 8 0 0 18 - - - - - - - - 27 9 MS&AD ANDRETTI FORMULA E 8 0 4 2 6 - - - - - - - - 20 10 DRAGON RACING 0 0 8 4 0 - - - - - - - - 12 2017/2018 FIA FORMULA E CHAMPIONSHIP REGULATIONS CAR » An additional allocation of one set of so- nute slot to complete a flying lap (maximum » Spark-Renault STR-01E single-seater / chassis: called Typhoon tyres per car per season for power: 200kW).