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At least, this is what London is planning, after a charity callled the Greenpower Education Trust is looking for ten schools that will send pupils and their homemade racing EVs straight to the racetrack.
The world's quietest motorsport competition is looking to find new talent and for that to happen, FIA Formula E Championship officials are starting their search in London, with the help of Greenpower Education Trust.
The inaugural Formual E season will draw to a close with two days of silent, electric racing in London Battersea Park, on a 1.8-mile special course that will test each racer's skills through a series of no less than 15 corners. The event will be held on June 27-28 and 10 London schools will get the opportunity to compete on the very same race track.
In case you didn't know, there is a Formula E Schools Series initiative that challenges sudents to explore engineering and renewable energy through motorsports. Well, this sounds both fun an interesting, given the fact that most of us (me included) were used to take their bikes for a ride and pretend they are racing to win a Grand Prix.
"This is a unique chance for young people in London to race on the same track as a host of ex-F1 and other motorsport stars, not to mention the opportunity to get involved in an innovative engineering project that will look great on their CVs," explained Jeremy Way, Greenpower Education Trust CEO.
But first, students wil have to build their own electric racers and since there are no details about how the race cars should look like, we might be in for a threat and see a lot of crazy-looking EVs in the starting grid, not to mention a lot of rivalry which should boost the overall atmosphere of the ePrix.
The inaugural Formual E season will draw to a close with two days of silent, electric racing in London Battersea Park, on a 1.8-mile special course that will test each racer's skills through a series of no less than 15 corners. The event will be held on June 27-28 and 10 London schools will get the opportunity to compete on the very same race track.
In case you didn't know, there is a Formula E Schools Series initiative that challenges sudents to explore engineering and renewable energy through motorsports. Well, this sounds both fun an interesting, given the fact that most of us (me included) were used to take their bikes for a ride and pretend they are racing to win a Grand Prix.
"This is a unique chance for young people in London to race on the same track as a host of ex-F1 and other motorsport stars, not to mention the opportunity to get involved in an innovative engineering project that will look great on their CVs," explained Jeremy Way, Greenpower Education Trust CEO.
But first, students wil have to build their own electric racers and since there are no details about how the race cars should look like, we might be in for a threat and see a lot of crazy-looking EVs in the starting grid, not to mention a lot of rivalry which should boost the overall atmosphere of the ePrix.
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