Formula E season opener in Beijing postponed by a week
Date: 09 Sep 2015
The opening round of the
second season of the FIA Formula E Championship will now take place on October
24 as the Beijing authorities made a request to Formula E Holdings to postpone
the race by one week due to other events taking place in the Olympic Park from
October 16-18. This request came in on September 7.
Formula E CEO Alejandro Agag
said: “While it is regrettable that the date of the opening race has had to be
delayed by one week, we understand the logistical difficulties in staging
conflicting events. Together with our partners and the authorities, we
therefore decided that the best course of action was to move our race by one
week. We remain confident that despite the date change the Beijing ePrix will
provide for a spectacular start to the second season of our championship.”
The date change for the Beijing ePrix does not
affect the rest of the calendar.
2015-2016 FIA Formula E Championship calendar
October 24, 2015 - Beijing ePrix
November 7, 2015 - Putrajaya
ePrix
December 19, 2015 - Punta del
Este ePrix
February 6, 2016 - Buenos
Aires ePrix
March 19, 2016 - TBC
April 2, 2016 - Long Beach
ePrix
April 23, 2016 - Paris ePrix
May 21, 2016 - Berlin ePrix
June 4, 2016 - Moscow ePrix
TBC, 2016 - London ePrix