BMW Formula E entry revealed

BMW has announced the car and team it will enter in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship Season 5.

BMW i Motorsport has the new BMW iFE.18 electric car and the new BMW i Andretti Motorsport team starting in the first round of the new season on December 15 in Ad Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.

The all-electric racing car has its innovative drivetrain, developed using the same engineers involved in the BMW i3, hidden deep inside.

BMW i and BMW Motorsport are working on the Formula E project in tandem, thereby facilitating a technology transfer between series development and motorsport.

The two BMW iFE.18 cars will have BMW works drivers Antonio Felix da Costa (Portugal) and Alexander Sims (Britain) at the wheel.

“Formula E is not only an innovative and spectacular race series that has established itself as one of the top race series in the world with a totally new approach to sustainability and events within just a few years,” BMW AG management board development and motorsport member Klaus Fröhlich says. “For BMW, it is also the perfect test lab for production development. The technology transfer between motorsport and series production is intense. Our experience from series production benefits the drivetrain of the race car. At the same time, insights from Formula E flow directly into the development of future series production drivetrains.”

Team principal Roger Griffiths (Britain) and the Andretti Autosport team owned by Michael Andretti (USA) bring a wealth of Formula E experience.

The American team has contested every race in the series since 2014.

“I believe we have the right partners, drivers and personnel in place to compete at the very top level of Formula E,” Michael Andretti says. “We are entering not only a new era of Formula E, but of motorsport as a whole.”