 São Paulo Street Circuit
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| Circuit Details | ||
| Name | São Paulo Street Circuit | |
| Location |  Anhembi Sambadrome, São Paulo, Brazil
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| Length | 2.933 km (1.822 mi) | |
| Corners | 11 | |
| Only Race | 2023 São Paulo E-Prix
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| Circuit Records | ||
| Fastest Lap | Qualifying | Race |
| 1:13.684 | 1:11.904 | 118.255 km/h |
 Sam Bird
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 Stoffel Vandoorne
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 Mitch Evans
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The São Paulo Street Circuit is a temporary street circuit used to host the São Paulo E-Prix, a round of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, centred upon the Anhembi Sambadrome in São Paulo, Brazil.[1] Heavily revised from its days hosting a round of the IndyCar Series between 2010 and 2013, the São Paulo Street Circuit would make its FE debut in 2023, having previously been outlined as a host for FE in 2017.[2]
Circuit History[]
The São Paulo Street Circuit was originally created in 2009, after the IRL IndyCar Series secured a deal to stage a race in the Brazilian city for the 2010 campaign, creating the São Paulo Indy 300 in the process in a bid to expand its reach outside of the United States.[3] The original venue used the roads around the Anhembi Sambadrome as a basis, before extending across 4.081 km of the Santana district of São Paulo, with the Sambadrome also ensuring that there was permanent seating for 30,000 people.[3] The first IndyCar race would become noted for the amount of dust thrown up by the cars, a legacy of using the concrete floored Sambadrome which also ensured that there was very little grip, with rain affecting the following season's event.[3]
2012 saw various off-circuit improvements made, including to drainage, before 2013 saw the first chicane remodeled after incidents in all of the previous seasons due to its layout.[3] However, the 2013 visit proved to be the last for IndyCar, with the circuit then lying dormant barring a visit for the Brazilian GT Series later in 2013.[3]
Formula E History[]
The São Paulo Street Circuit was first touted as a host venue after plans were drawn up to stage the São Paulo E-Prix back in 2017, although an official decision on a venue was delayed and unconfirmed when the 2017/18 calendar was announced.[2] Ultimately other organisational issues would thwart plans to stage the São Paulo E-Prix in 2018, with an initial delay until the 2018/19 campaign only for that attempt to be abandoned too.[4] Instead it would take until negotiations on venues for the 2022/23 season began that São Paulo re-emerged with a shot at hosting an FE race, with a new bid to stage an E-Prix officially made in May 2022.[1]
The May 2022 agreement would see the São Paulo Street Circuit effectively revealed as the host of the São Paulo E-Prix, albeit with a heavily revised layout from its days of hosting the IndyCar Series in the early 2010s.[1] Instead, the E-Prix version of the circuit would be more closely centred on the Anhembi Sambadrome in the Brazilian city, measuring just under 3 kilometres in length.[3]
Circuit Layouts[]
The lap opened with a long start/finish straight, with the finish line at pit-out at one end, and the start line two thirds of the way down the run to the first corner.[3] The first corner itself was a 90° right, followed immediately by a mirrored 90° left to form a chicane, before a short sprint to turn three, a right-handed hairpin with the Attack Mode activation zone located on the outside.[3] A relatively long straight followed to open the second sector of the lap, with the field firing through a kink before hitting the brakes for a chicane comprised of turns four (right), five (hairpin left) and six (sweeping right).[3]
Out of the chicane and the field would encounter another straight line blast, before hitting the brakes hard for turn seven, and acute left hander which was followed by a 90° left of turn eight, turning the field back towards the Sambadrome.[3] Turn nine would be a kink that broke up another long straight, before another hard braking zone to take the left-handed turn ten, with the pit-entry located on the outside of said left-hander.[3] A short blast on the throttle then led the field to the final corner, a 90° left-hander of turn eleven, which completed the loop through and around the Sambadrome.[3]
Extra Chicanery[]
The original layout for the E-Prix circuit.
The initial circuit map included an additional chicane in the middle of the start/finish straight, essentially a mirror of the turn four/five/six complex, that would have added around 0.030 km to the circuit length, and added a huge boost to re-generation.[3] On the eve of the race, and upon advice from drivers, teams and manufacturers, the organisers and the FIA opted to remove the chicane, viewing it as an unnecessary addition to the circuit.[3]
Records[]
A full list of records for the São Paulo Street Circuit are outlined below, including a list of race winners.
Winners[]
Below is a list of all of the winners of ePrix held at the São Paulo Street Circuit:
| São Paulo Street Circuit Winners List | ||||
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| Season | Event | Date | Winner | Report |
| 2022/23 | 2023 Julius Bär São Paulo E-Prix[5]
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25 March 2023[6] | Mitch Evans[7]
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Report |
Race-by-Race Records[]
The race-by-race records for the São Paulo Street Circuit are outlined below:
| São Paulo Street Circuit Race-by-Race Records | ||||||
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| Event | Qualifying | Fastest Lap | Winner | |||
| Driver | Time | Driver | Time | Driver | Speed | |
| 2023 Julius Bär São Paulo E-Prix
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Stoffel Vandoorne
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1:11.904 | Sam Bird
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1:13.684 | Mitch Evans
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118.255 km/h |
References[]
Videos and Images:
References:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sam Smith, 'Formula E to race in Brazil for first time in 2023', the-race.com, (The Race, 02/05/2022), https://the-race.com/formula-e/formula-e-to-race-in-brazil-for-first-time-in-2023/, (Accessed 26/02/2023)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 'More compact Season 4 calendar revealed', fiaformulae.com, (FIA Formula E, 19/06/2017), http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/2017/june/more-compact-season-4-calendar-revealed/, (Accessed 19/06/2017)
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 'São Paulo Street Circuit', racingcircuits.info, (Racing Circuits, 2023), https://www.racingcircuits.info/south-america/brazil/sao-paulo-street-circuit.html, (Accessed 26/02/2023)
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedSaoDelay - ↑ 'Formula E and Julius Baer renew partnership for Gen3 era', fiaformulae.com, (FIA Formula E, 02/12/2022), https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/11645/formula-e-and-julius-baer-renew-partnership-for-gen3-era, (Accessed 26/02/2023)
- ↑ 'SEASON 9 CALENDAR: Global stage set for Formula E's new Gen3 era', fiaformulae.com, (FIA Formula E, 29/06/2022), https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/2022/june/season-9-calendar-announced, (Accessed 29/06/2022)
- ↑ 'Evans heads Jaguar-powered trio to win in São Paulo', fiaformulae.com, (FIA Formula E, 25/03/2023), https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/30654/evans-heads-jaguar-powered-trio-to-win-in-s-o-paulo, (Accessed 26/03/2023)
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