Components E will shut out its season this weekend with its first go to to Seoul, South Korea. It isn’t simply the tip of season eight and the final race for the Gen2 electrical race automobiles but additionally marks the collection’ 100th race. The game has come a good distance since its first ePrix in Beijing in 2014, with extra highly effective automobiles, greater batteries, and a capability to placed on an thrilling race at Monaco, one thing that Components 1 hasn’t been in a position to say for a number of a long time.

Lucas di Grassi was the winner of that first ePrix and has raced in each ePrix since. He is nonetheless visiting victory lane, most lately in final Sunday’s London ePrix, and this weekend could rating his 1,000th profession level within the collection. With a background in Components 1 after which Audi’s mighty R18 e-tron Le Mans program, di Grassi is aware of his approach round a race automobile. So he is often an excellent individual to speak to concerning the future course of the game.

Subsequent season the game will get an all-new automobile, one which’s far more highly effective—and lighter, too. But it surely’s not fairly as daring, expertise clever, because the idea di Grassi lobbied for. Though that automobile has but to even race in anger, the varied minds that contribute to Components E’s R&D roadmap are already interested by Gen4. Since we had the prospect to talk with the driving force forward of this week’s Seoul ePrix, I wished to know his ideas on the place the game ought to go subsequent. As I hoped, he had loads of them.

You’ve been fairly outspoken previously about the place you assume the technical course of the game ought to go, significantly as highway automobile EVs characteristic tech that has gone past what Components E permits. The place do you assume Gen4 ought to go?

“That is an awesome query. For me, it’s extremely clear from the start the place the expertise roadmap goes, not solely Components E, however all of the FIA [the organizing body for global motorsport], of every thing—for me they should be far more segmented by way of which options are higher for various collection. Like, endurance racing ought to be specializing in car-relevant applied sciences. Components 1 ought to have essentially the most excessive power-to-weight ratio drivetrains. Then system E—essentially the most environment friendly engines ever. So for me, I’d phase it far more and ensure that the producers they need to develop and make investments, do,” he informed me.

“[The FIA] have a championship that may develop, and it will probably use a few of that experience to crossover to totally different collection, however they do not overlap. And in the meanwhile, there’s plenty of overlaps between endurance racing, Components 1, Components E. It is that the laws should not very clear. And I do not assume there’s someone giving actually, actually clear instructions that that is the best way these championships are going to evolve, and that is the expertise that truly creates worth for the producer and for the followers and for the world in the long run. I believe in the meanwhile it isn’t a straightforward factor to do. And in the meanwhile, I do not imagine the job is being carried out in the proper approach,” di Grassi mentioned.