How a Formula E mainstay's new home is helping it prepare for Gen3

By:

Jake Boxall-Legge

Mar 30, 2022, 9:21 AM

Under a former guise, the NIO 333 Formula E squad took victory in the championship's inaugural season, but a difficult recent history has resigned the team to the back of the field. Now with a new base and the much-vaunted Gen3 regulations incoming, the Chinese team is looking reinvigorated

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There’s something of a paradox about Formula E. As a series and as a concept, it still manages to preserve a veneer of newness about it; the championship has been able to retain its status as a disruptor in the world of motorsport, continuing to take pre-conceived notions of how racing should be and turn them on their heads.

Yet, as Formula E stands well within its eighth season, on the brink of its third-generation ruleset, it feels part of the furniture against other racing categories. It’s no longer a place for Formula 1 rejects to ply their trade in lieu of anything better to do – it's now a destination for drivers to shoot for.

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Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.