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Formula E Race at Home Challenge

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ABB Formula E Race at Home Challenge
2020
Tournament information
SportFormula E
Dates18 April 2020–7 June 2020
AdministratorFormula E
Tournament
format(s)
Classes:
  • Driver Grid
  • Challenge Grid

Pre-qualifying:[1]

  • Challenge Grid only[2]
  • Monday–Thursday before the event
  • 18 drivers can pre-qualify for the event
  • Guest drivers complete the grid
  • The top 24 players in the standings will be invited to the Grand Final[3]

Qualifying:[1]

  • One-shot qualifying in groups

Race:[1]

  • Damage level set at 80%
  • Elimination "Race Royale"
  • The final twelve then sprints to the finish[4][N 1]
Host(s)rFactor 2
Final positions
ChampionsDriver Grid:
Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne
Challenge Grid:
Slovenia Kevin Siggy

The Formula E Race at Home Challenge (formally the ABB Formula E Race at Home Challenge in support of UNICEF) was a series of esports events held as a temporary replacement of the suspended 2019–20 Formula E season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The series was run on the platform of rFactor 2.[1] The virtual tournament was broadcast on various Formula E social channels along with selected television partners.[5]

British racing driver Charlie Martin was announced as the first guest participant in the Race at Home Challenge, and will occupy a permanent guest role for the entirety of the series. As such, she became the first transgender driver to be affiliated with FIA Formula E and joined a host of other female drivers who had either competed in the series or who had participated in test events.

Daniel Abt had all his points taken away after the Berlin race as he was found to have used professional gamer, Lorenz Hörzing in his place. Abt additionally paid £8,900 (10,000 Euros) to charity.[6] Hörzing was banned from the Challenge grid outright.[7] Abt was later suspended and released by Audi.[8]

Teams and drivers

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Team No. Driver Grid Challenge Grid[N 2]
Drivers Rounds Drivers Rounds
United Kingdom Envision Virgin Racing 2 New Zealand Nick Cassidy 0–1 United Kingdom Jimmy Broadbent 0
Austria Lorenz Hörzing 1
United Kingdom Sam Bird 2–8 Germany Joel Schmitt 2
Italy Matteo Topa 3
Austria Lorenz Hörzing 4–5
Turkey Özgür Benzes 6–7
4 Netherlands Robin Frijns 0–7 United Kingdom Graham Carroll 0
Germany Ben Hitz 1–7
United Kingdom Alice Powell 8 8
China NIO 333 FE Team 3 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey All China Liu Zexuan 0, 4
Croatia Petar Brljak 1–3
United Kingdom Charlie Martin 5–7
Greece Jim Parisis 8
33 China Ma Qinghua All Croatia Petar Brljak 0
Greece Jim Parisis 1–2, 4–5
China Ye Yifei 3, 6–7
Germany Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team 5 Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne All United Kingdom Archie Hamilton 0–1
United Kingdom Mike Channell 2
Germany Sophia Flörsch 3–4, 7
United Kingdom Axel LaFlamme 5–6
17 Netherlands Nyck de Vries All Spain Daniel Juncadella 0
Netherlands Noah Reuvers 1–8
United States GEOX Dragon 6 New Zealand Brendon Hartley All Sweden Joel Eriksson 0–1, 4
United Kingdom Alex Cooper 2
France Kevin Morville 3
United Kingdom Chris Shepherd 5
Italy Armando Iannaccone 6
United Kingdom Axel LaFlamme 7
7 Switzerland Nico Müller 0–7 United Kingdom Brandon Williams 0
Bulgaria Peyo Peev 1–7
Sweden Joel Eriksson 8 8
Germany Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler 11 Brazil Lucas di Grassi All United Kingdom Steve Alvarez Brown 0
Czech Republic Jiří Toman 1
South Africa Kelvin van der Linde 2
Sweden Eric Stranne 3
Norway Scott Søvik 4
United Kingdom Lionel O'Connor 5
United States Verena Mei 6
Germany Moritz Löhner 7
Netherlands Arjan Veltens 8
31 South Africa Kelvin van der Linde 7–8 United Kingdom Alisdair Irvine 7–8
66 Germany Daniel Abt 0–5 Poland Zbigniew Siara 1
United Kingdom Axel LaFlamme 2–4[N 3]
United Kingdom Alisdair Irvine 4–6
China DS Techeetah 13 Portugal António Félix da Costa All United Kingdom Charlie Martin 0, 4
United Kingdom James Rossiter 1
United Kingdom Chris Shepherd 2
Norway Scott Søvik 3
India Kush Maini 5–8
25 France Jean-Éric Vergne All United Kingdom James Rossiter 0
Portugal Nuno Pinto 1–7
Germany TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team 18 Switzerland Neel Jani All Germany Moritz Löhner 0
United Kingdom Mike Channell 1
Poland Nikodem Wisniewski 2
United Kingdom Alisdair Irvine 3
Germany Marius Golombeck 4–5
Australia Joshua Rogers 6–8
36 Germany André Lotterer All United Kingdom Mike Channell 0
Australia Joshua Rogers 1, 4
Switzerland Simona de Silvestro 2–3
Netherlands Arjan Veltens 5–6
Germany Marius Golombeck 7–8
Monaco ROKiT Venturi Racing 19 Brazil Felipe Massa All North Macedonia Erhan Jajovski 0, 2
United Kingdom Axel LaFlamme 1
United Kingdom Jacob Reid 3–8
48 Switzerland Edoardo Mortara All North Macedonia Erhan Jajovski 1
United Kingdom Jacob Reid 2
United Kingdom Gareth Paterson 3–4[N 4]
Norway Scott Søvik 5–7
United Kingdom Panasonic Jaguar Racing 20 New Zealand Mitch Evans All United Kingdom Jack Ashton 0
Poland Kuba Brzezinski 1–2
Netherlands Remco Majoor 3
Croatia Petar Brljak 4
United Kingdom Archie Hamilton 5
United Kingdom Mike Channell 6
Brazil Sérgio Jimenez 7
51 United Kingdom James Calado All United Kingdom Kai Bachini 0
United Kingdom Jacob Reid 1
United Kingdom Alex Lynn 2–3
Netherlands Remco Majoor 4
Croatia Petar Brljak 5–8
France Nissan e.dams 22 United Kingdom Oliver Rowland All Mexico Ricardo Sanchez 0
Germany Marc Gassner 1
Netherlands Niek Jacobs 2–8
23 United Kingdom Jann Mardenborough 0 Germany Marc Gassner 0
Switzerland Sébastien Buemi 1–8 Germany Jan von der Heyde 1–6, 8
Netherlands Arjan Veltens 7
United States BMW i Andretti Motorsport 27 United Kingdom Alexander Sims All Norway Jarl Teien 0
United Kingdom Charlie Martin 1–3
[N 4] 4
Turkey Cem Bölükbaşı 5–7
Turkey Cem Bölükbaşı 8
28 Germany Maximilian Günther All Slovenia Kevin Siggy All
India Mahindra Racing 64 Belgium Jérôme d'Ambrosio 0–7 Finland Olli Pahkala 0–1
Switzerland Markus Keller 2–7
Belgium Sam Dejonghe 8 8
94 Belgium Sam Dejonghe 0 Netherlands Hany Alsabti 0
Germany Pascal Wehrlein 1–8 Germany Lucas Müller 1–8
Source:[9][10][11]
Guest drivers are marked in green.[N 5]

Replacements

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Round Driver Pre-qualifying method Replaced by Reason
2 Australia Joshua Rogers Finished 1st in previous race Netherlands Noah Reuvers Finished 9th in pre-qualifying
Finland Olli Pahkala Finished 4th in previous race United Kingdom Alex Cooper Finished 10th in pre-qualifying
Italy Marco Santoni Finished 7th in pre-qualifying Switzerland Markus Keller Finished 12th in pre-qualifying
3 Greece Stavros Mouzaidis Finished 6th in pre-qualifying Italy Matteo Topa Finished 11th in pre-qualifying
4 United Kingdom Graham Carroll Finished 2nd in pre-qualifying United Kingdom Alisdair Irvine Finished 9th in pre-qualifying
United Kingdom Chris Shepherd Finished 8th in pre-qualifying Norway Scott Søvik Finished 10th in pre-qualifying
5 N/A reserved spot for guest driver United Kingdom Alisdair Irvine Finished 9th in pre-qualifying
United States Jack Harrison Finished 7th in pre-qualifying Norway Scott Søvik Finished 10th in pre-qualifying
6 N/A extra pre-qualifying spot[N 6] Italy Armando Iannaccone Finished 9th in pre-qualifying
United Kingdom Graham Carroll Finished 1st in pre-qualifying Turkey Özgür Benzes Finished 10th in pre-qualifying
7 Germany Jan von der Heyde Finished 2nd in previous race Turkey Özgür Benzes Finished 9th in pre-qualifying

Calendar

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Round Circuit Date
0 Monaco Circuit de Monaco April 18
1 Hong Kong Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit April 25
2 United States Lester Special – Electric Docks[12][13][14] May 2
3 Monaco Circuit de Monaco May 9
4 Hong Kong Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit May 16
5 Germany Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit May 23
6 United States Brooklyn Street Circuit May 30
7 United States Brooklyn Street Circuit June 6
8 Germany Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit June 7
Source:[1][3]
Fictional tracks are marked in light cyan.

Results and standings

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Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Class
0 Monaco Circuit de Monaco Germany Maximilian Günther Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne Germany Maximilian Günther United States BMW i Andretti Motorsport Driver Grid
United Kingdom Graham Carroll Finland Olli Pahkala United Kingdom Graham Carroll United Kingdom Envision Virgin Racing Challenge Grid
1 Hong Kong Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne New Zealand Nick Cassidy Germany Maximilian Günther United States BMW i Andretti Motorsport Driver Grid
Croatia Petar Brljak Slovenia Kevin Siggy Australia Joshua Rogers Germany TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team Challenge Grid
2 United States Lester Special – Electric Docks Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne Germany Pascal Wehrlein Germany Maximilian Günther United States BMW i Andretti Motorsport Driver Grid
Bulgaria Peyo Peev Bulgaria Peyo Peev Bulgaria Peyo Peev United States GEOX Dragon Challenge Grid
3 Monaco Circuit de Monaco Germany Pascal Wehrlein Germany Pascal Wehrlein Germany Pascal Wehrlein India Mahindra Racing Driver Grid
Slovenia Kevin Siggy Slovenia Kevin Siggy Slovenia Kevin Siggy United States BMW i Andretti Motorsport Challenge Grid
4 Hong Kong Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit Switzerland Edoardo Mortara Germany Pascal Wehrlein Germany Pascal Wehrlein India Mahindra Racing Driver Grid
Australia Joshua Rogers Australia Joshua Rogers Germany Lucas Müller India Mahindra Racing Challenge Grid
5 Germany Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne United Kingdom Oliver Rowland France Nissan e.dams Driver Grid
Slovenia Kevin Siggy Croatia Petar Brljak Slovenia Kevin Siggy United States BMW i Andretti Motorsport Challenge Grid
6 United States Brooklyn Street Circuit Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne Germany Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team Driver Grid
Slovenia Kevin Siggy Slovenia Kevin Siggy Slovenia Kevin Siggy United States BMW i Andretti Motorsport Challenge Grid
7 United States Brooklyn Street Circuit Germany Pascal Wehrlein Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne Germany Pascal Wehrlein India Mahindra Racing Driver Grid
Germany Lucas Müller Slovenia Kevin Siggy Germany Lucas Müller India Mahindra Racing Challenge Grid
8 Germany Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit United Kingdom Oliver Rowland Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne United Kingdom Oliver Rowland France Nissan e.dams Driver Grid
Slovenia Kevin Siggy Slovenia Kevin Siggy Slovenia Kevin Siggy United States BMW i Andretti Motorsport Challenge Grid

Points structure

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Round  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   Pole   FL 
0 No points awarded
1–7 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 1 1
8 50 36 30 24 20 16 12 8 4 2 2 2
Source:[1]

Driver Grid standings

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Pos. Driver MCO
Monaco
HKG
Hong Kong
LES
United States
MCO
Monaco
HKG
Hong Kong
BER
Germany
NYC
United States
NYC
United States
BER
Germany
Pts
1 Germany Maximilian Günther 1 1 1 3 65
2 Germany Pascal Wehrlein 3 10 1 1 1 44
3 Netherlands Robin Frijns 14E 4 2 5 40
4 Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne 2 5 5 2 1 40
5 Switzerland Neel Jani 15E 12 4 4 24
6 New Zealand Nick Cassidy 4 2 19
7 Switzerland Nico Müller 5 13E 3 8 19
8 United Kingdom Oliver Rowland 6 6 15E 6 1 1 16
9 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey 10 7 6 18E 14
10 Netherlands Nyck de Vries 22E 23E 7 22E 6
11 Germany André Lotterer 3 20E 17E 7 6
12 Brazil Felipe Massa 19E 8 20E 15E 4
13 United Kingdom James Calado 12E 21E 8 11 4
14 Belgium Jérôme d'Ambrosio DNS 9 12 14E 2
15 China Ma Qinghua 13E 11 22E 9 2
16 United Kingdom Alexander Sims 21E 10 14E 12 1
17 Switzerland Edoardo Mortara WD 14E 16E 10 1
18 France Jean-Éric Vergne 8 22E 9[N 7] 21E 0
19 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi 18E 11 16E 0
20 Brazil Lucas di Grassi 17E DNS 13E 17E 0
21 New Zealand Brendon Hartley 16E 16E WD 13E 0
22 Germany Daniel Abt 11E 15E 23E 19E DSQ 0
23 New Zealand Mitch Evans 7 17E 18E 24E 0
24 Portugal António Félix da Costa 20E 19E 21E 23E 0
25 United Kingdom Sam Bird 19E 20E 0
South Africa Kelvin van der Linde
United Kingdom Jann Mardenborough 9
Belgium Sam Dejonghe 18E
Pos. Driver MCO
Monaco
HKG
Hong Kong
LES
United States
MCO
Monaco
HKG
Hong Kong
BER
Germany
NYC
United States
TBA
TBA
Pts
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest lap
E – Eliminated

Challenge Grid standings

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Pos. Driver MCO
Monaco
HKG
Hong Kong
LES
United States
MCO
Monaco
HKG
Hong Kong
BER
Germany
NYC
United States
TBA
TBA
Pts
1 Slovenia Kevin Siggy 2 3 2 1 61
2 Bulgaria Peyo Peev 23E 1 3 42
3 Croatia Petar Brljak 4 2 5 4 41
4 Germany Lucas Müller 13E 3 2 33
5 Australia Joshua Rogers 1 DNP 25
6 Germany Jan von der Heyde 76 4 11E 20
7 United Kingdom Jacob Reid 17E 7 5 16
8 Germany Ben Hitz 98 6 9 14
9 Finland Olli Pahkala 5 4 DNP 12
10 North Macedonia Erhan Jajovski 18E 5 21E 10
11 Portugal Nuno Pinto 1110 16E 6 9
12 Netherlands Remco Majoor 7 6
13 Poland Kuba Brzezinski 87 22E 6
14 Netherlands Niek Jacobs 9 8 6
15 Switzerland Markus Keller 8 13E 4
16 Greece Jim Parisis 109 14E 2
17 Netherlands Noah Reuvers 14E 1110 10 2
18 Germany Marc Gassner 3 12 0
19 Sweden Eric Stranne 12 DNPQ 0
20 Austria Lorenz Hörzing 16E DNPQ DNPQ 0
21 United Kingdom Alisdair Irvine 16E 0
22 Poland Nikodem Wisniewski 17E 0
23 United Kingdom Chris Shepherd 18E DNPQ DNP 0
24 Italy Matteo Topa 18E DNPQ 0
25 Germany Joel Schmitt 19E 0
26 Czech Republic Jiří Toman 21E 0
27 France Kevin Morville 21E DNPQ 0
28 Poland Zbigniew Siara 22E DNPQ DNPQ 0
29 Norway Scott Søvik 23E 0
30 United Kingdom Alex Cooper DNS DNPQ 0
United Kingdom Graham Carroll 1 DNP
Norway Jarl Teien 6 DNPQ
United Kingdom Brandon Williams 8 DNPQ
United Kingdom Jack Ashton 10 DNPQ
Netherlands Hany Alsabti 11E
Germany Moritz Löhner 12E
United Kingdom Jimmy Broadbent 14E
United Kingdom Steve Alvarez Brown 15E
China Liu Zexuan 17E
Mexico Ricardo Sanchez 19E
United Kingdom Kai Bachini 22E
Italy Marco Santoni DNP
Greece Stavros Mouzaidis DNP
Guest drivers ineligible for points
United Kingdom James Rossiter 9 6
Spain Daniel Juncadella 7
United Kingdom Alex Lynn 10 14E
Switzerland Simona de Silvestro 12 17E
Sweden Joel Eriksson 13E 15E
South Africa Kelvin van der Linde 13E
United Kingdom Charlie Martin 20E 18E 15E 24E
United Kingdom Axel LaFlamme 19E 20E 15E
United Kingdom Archie Hamilton 16E 20E
Germany Sophia Flörsch 20E
United Kingdom Mike Channell 21E 24E 23E
United Kingdom Gareth Paterson 22E
Pos. Driver MCO
Monaco
HKG
Hong Kong
LES
United States
MCO
Monaco
HKG
Hong Kong
BER
Germany
NYC
United States
TBA
TBA
Pts
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest lap
Superscript – Point-scoring position
E – Eliminated

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Originally it was the final ten.[1]
  2. ^ Drivers who failed to pre-qualify for any given round are not listed here. Those who already made it into the championship, but failed to pre-qualify for any given round, are only listed in the Challenge Grid standings as "did not pre-qualify" (DNPQ). This only includes those drivers who actually entered the pre-qualifying stage of that round. Drivers who did pre-qualify for any given round, but did not enter it, are only listed in the Challenge Grid standings as "did not participate" (DNP) and also in the Replacements subsection.
  3. ^ For Round 4, LaFlamme was registered to drive for the Venturi Racing car no. 48, but instead drove the Audi car no. 66, which was officially assigned to Alisdair Irvine, meaning that Audi had three drivers that day.
  4. ^ a b For Round 4, Paterson was registered to drive for the BMW i Andretti car no. 27, but instead drove the Venturi car no. 48, which was officially assigned to Alex LaFlamme, who instead ran in an Audi car no. 66.
  5. ^ Guest drivers had been invited to the championship without the need to pre-qualify for the rounds they entered.
  6. ^ The top 10 from previous race included a guest driver (Cem Bölükbaşı), who was not eligible to pre-qualify this way as guest drivers are invited separately, meaning that only nine drivers pre-qualified via the previous race result. In previous cases, both James Rossiter and Alex Lynn did not free up an extra spot despite finishing in the top 10 in their respective races, suggesting a possible rule change has been made since.
  7. ^ Vergne was penalised after the race and did not receive any points.

References

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  3. ^ a b "ABB Formula E Race at Home Challenge". Studio-397. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  4. ^ @FIAFormulaE (24 April 2020). "The ABB Formula E Race at Home Challenge in support of @UNICEF returns tomorrow!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ Smith, Sam (15 April 2020). "Formula E online series launched with elimination race format". The Race. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Formula E driver Daniel Abt uses professional gamer to compete for him in esports race". BBC Sport. 24 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Abt disqualified, fined for imposter plot in virtual Formula e race". 24 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Abt dropped by Audi over simracing scandal". 26 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Entry list confirmed for the ABB Formula E Race at Home Challenge test round". FIA Formula E. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  10. ^ "Formula E grid confirmed for Round 1 of the Race at Home Challenge". FIA Formula E. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  11. ^ "The sim racers lining up for Round 1 of the Race at Home Challenge". FIA Formula E. 25 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  12. ^ Jeffrey, Paul (20 April 2019). "rF2: Gen2 Formula E and Lester Special Edition Released". RaceDepartment. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  13. ^ Studio-397 (19 April 2020). "Formula E Test Circuit". Steam Workshop. Retrieved 30 April 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Introducing Electric Docks - the new track for the Race at Home Challenge". FIA Formula E. 2 May 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2020.