Formula E's new 210mph car to make public debut at Goodwood
Formula E will showcase its new Gen4 car publicly for the first time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on July 9-12, and has lined up Dan Ticktum to demonstrate the car's much publicised pace.
The car, which is currently being developed by manufacturers in private testing, is capable of 210mph and can achieve 0-100km/h in 1.8s with 600kW power and all-wheel drive.
The Formula E Gen4 car will run in the Batch 3 show run category of the entry list at this year's festival.
Cupra Kiro driver Ticktum is set to drive throughout the event and The Race has learned that unlike the actual racing version of the Gen4 car next season will use slick tyres at Goodwood.
Formula E is being coy about whether it will go for an out-and-out time to see how close it can get to the official hill record set by Max Chilton with the all-electric McMurtry Speirling in 2021.
But the fact the car will be fitted with slick tyres indicates that it will go for an attempt to at least get close to Chilton's time, although Formula E has not publicly stated that is an intention.
That time of 39.08s over the famed 1.16 mile hillclimb broke the long held record of 41.6s set by Nick Heidfeld in a McLaren MP4/13 Formula 1 car in 1999.
The Gen4 car is not yet fully developed, although with slick tyres it could feasibly get close to Chilton's astounding time.
But Formula E is not believed to not be targeting the record, rather taking each run as it comes and seeing what the car is capable of as it demonstrates its torque and acceleration up the hill.
Talking of his role in displaying the Gen4, Ticktum said that Goodwood was "the perfect place to show the fastest single-seater Formula E has ever built.
"The Gen4 is 50% more powerful in race mode than the current cars, handles like an absolute weapon with that permanent all-wheel drive, and it's ready to fly up the hill. It's going to be wild."
Formula E CEO, Jeff Dodds, described the Gen4's outing at Goodwood as "the perfect stage to give the public its first up close look at the Gen4 car in action."
This isn't just an incremental step forward, the Gen4 represents a massive performance leap in Formula E history."
Formula E has been aggressive in marketing the Gen4 car so far with a private demonstration showing the evolution of its cars across the Gen 1 (2014-18), Gen2 (2018-2022) and Gen3 (2022-26) at Paul Ricard in April.
On that occasion official Gen4 test driver James Rossiter did the bulk of the driving, while manufacturers showcased their test cars that were then completing reliability running.
Now, manufacturers are concentrating on performance running with Jaguar, Stellantis, Nissan, Porsche and Lola all completing test days in recent weeks.
Mahindra is presently facing delays in getting its car on track due to supplier problems for its test car, although it is expected to shake down later this month.
Homologations for the Gen4 manufacturer cars is scheduled to begin from the end of September, with the traditional pre-season test pencilled in for Jarama in mid-November.
Jaguar and Mahindra are expected to also be at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year, although only Jaguar will actually run its Gen4 car, which was recently in private testing action at Navarra in Spain.
