The Electric GT Championship has once again been postponed by the organizers. The reason for the delay this time is, according to the organizers, that they are looking for investors, before they can get racing. There are no further news regarding expected arrival of those investors, neither what teams nor drivers, who are going to compete in the series. Those news arrive about two years after the Championship was presented for the first time, with only one car having tested so far – a car model that the organizers already…
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Electric GT still rumbles on
The Electric GT series appeared on the horizon late 2016, but after sending out a lot of press releases and driver announcements, it all went very quiet. But a small hint of life has appeared from them. The race series planes to run two sprint races each weekend, where a modified Tesla P100D will be used. The latest report is for the series to start at Jerez in Spain on 3-4 November 2018, with 9 more venues to follow during 2019. The series has had quite varying reports coming out,…
Read MoreElectric GT delayed once again
The Electric GT Championship has once again been delayed by the organizers. The latest reports say that the series will start during summer 2018. That announcement happened about 12 months after the series was originally announced. The car has been shown to the public at the Autosport Show in January among other places, and has since then been doing some test days with more or less prominent drivers, such as Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Karun Chandhok. The original plan was 10 race weekends in 2017. That was changed to only a…
Read MorePremat and Reip new Electric GT drivers
Alexandre Premat and Wolfgang Reip are the 16th and 17th drivers to be announced by Electric GT Championship. The 34 year old Frenchman Premat has tons of experience in motorsport. He grew up doing karting against Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, whom he later beat at the Formula 3 in Macau. He was helping Team France winning the A1 GP title in 2005/06 and was test driver for Spyker in Formula 1. Since then he was hired by Audi Sport, where he drove their Le Mans prototypes, and later on…
Read MoreKimiläinen and Webb to become electric drivers
Emma Kimiläinen and Oliver James Webb are the two next drivers ready for the Electric GT Championship. By that announcement we have 13 of the 20 seats filled with drivers, in the all new Tesla Model S P100D racers. Oliver James Webb, or often just mentioned as Olli Webb, has been driving various single-seater classes, where he among other good results, finished 3rd in the British Formula 3 Championship. In the last few seasons he has been driving for Team Bykolles Racing in FIA WEC with their LMP1 car. Finnish driver…
Read MoreElectric GT announces three new drivers and a new car
Electric GT Championship has announced three more drivers and a new car. Jeroen Bleekemolen, Kevin Ceccon and Stephen Fox are the latest drivers, who has been announced for the new electric championship. Dutch racer Bleekemolen has been driving in almost every racing series in the world. For many years he was seen as a Porsche specialist, but he has driven Mercedes GT cars, DTM cars, Dodge Viper, A1GP and a lot more. In 2016 he basically had a race every single weekend of the year, and did six 24 Hour…
Read MoreOnslow-Cole and Teixeira ready for Electric GT
The Electric GT grid is slowly but surely being put together. The new electric race series has announced that Tom Onslow-Cole and Ricardo Teixeira also will be a part of the driver lineup for the inaugural season in 2017. Onslow-Cole has been part of the BTCC system through many years, were he was crowned Renault Clio Cup UK, before he went into BTCC itself and took 7 victories and 36 podiums. The last few years he has been more focused on GT racing around the world, and he claimed the…
Read MorePowell and Coronel ready for Electric GT
Alice Powell and Tom Coronel are the next two drivers who are ready for the new Electric GT Championship. Both drivers were testing the Tesla Model S car a few weeks ago, at the same occasion as Heinz-Harald Frentzen had a test-drive. Powell is 23 years old and lives in Oxford in England. She won the Formula Renault 2.0 BARC Championship in 2010 and has since then participated in GP3 in 2012, where she was the first female driver to score a point. Then she went on to finish runner-up…
Read MoreNew electric racing series comes to light
A new electric racing series comes to light. Since fall 2014 we have seen FIA Formula E as the major electric championship across the world. Electric GT Championship series will contain 10 teams running 2 cars each, so the starting grid will be 20 drivers. The car is a Tesla Model S P85+ with 416 bhp and 0-100kph in 4,4 seconds. A roll cage will be mounted in the car, like we know from other real racing cars. Furthermore there will be small changes to brakes, suspension and aerodynamic, to…
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