Explained | Formula E to race in Hyderabad in 2023
The Hindu
The event can be linked to the Telangana government’s plan to popularise electric vehicles in the state.
The story so far: International motorsport racing is set to come back to India with a major event in 2023. Hyderabad is scheduled to host a Formula E race on February 11, 2023, the organisers have confirmed.
The race will be held on a 2.37 km track in and around the Secretariat Complex, going through Lumbini Park near Hussain Sagar Lake.
The Telangana government had signed a letter of intent (LoI) with Formula E in January 2022 with the intention of hosting a future E-Prix. The race in Hyderabad will be the fourth in the season, after Mexico and a double-header in Saudi Arabia. Brazil is another country that will host a Formula E race for the first time in 2023.
India has earlier hosted Formula One races at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida from 2011 to 2013, all of which were won by German driver Sebastian Vettel.
Formula E is an international motorsport competition where teams and drivers participate in an all-electric street racing series. The competition’s founding mission was to “race through the streets of the most iconic cities in the world, to show just what sustainable mobility was capable of, driving electric vehicles to the fore in the race for a better, cleaner future.”
The first Formula E race was held at the Olympic Park grounds in Beijing, China, in 2014.
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the motorsport’s governing body which also oversees Formula One, World Rally Championship, World Endurance Championship, and other events, granted Formula E world championship status in December 2019, for the 2020/2021 season.
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