During a press conference FIA President Jean Todt and FormulaE series CEO Alejandro Agag both expressed a desire for longer one-car races and an expanded calendar. Mr Agag suggested that he’d like to keep the existing 10 venues on the calendar and add 2 more venues - including the possibility of a Paris ePrix.
He said: “We want to define the calendar in the next couple of weeks and we will present this calendar to the FIA World Council in July. It’s very likely we will add two races and it’s well known that we are waiting for Paris to include in the process. Paris is not for the moment done but conversations are ongoing and we are optimistic we hope that we can get a real race – that would be an incredible race.”
Jean Todt expressed his desire to see improvements with the technology and to take the sustainable story to every continent in the world. He said: “We still have the Middle East which is not covered, Africa is not yet covered, but it is something to happen soon. It’s a vision for the future and mainly in the cities at the moment. We need to change the car to be able to make a one-hour race, and be able to make the race with one car, and the progress will come from competition.”
There is already a long list of countries and cities hoping to host the all-electric racing series including Vancouver, Cape Town and Lugano, so it will be interesting to see which two make the in the 2nd season of FormulaE