Shanghai E-Prix

Shanghai E-Prix
File:Shanghai Poster 2024.png
E-Prix Details
Name	ABB Formula E Shanghai E-Prix
Location	Jiading, Shanghai, China
No. Held	2
Circuit	Shanghai International Circuit
Previous Circuits
First Race	2024 Shanghai E-Prix II
Last Race	2025 Shanghai E-Prix II
Only Race
Most Recent Results
Name	2024 ABB Formula E Shanghai E-Prix II
Pole	Jake Hughes 1:13.921 (139.333 km/h)
First	Second	Third
António Félix da Costa	Jake Hughes	Norman Nato
Fastest lap	Norman Nato 1:15.358 (145.752 km/h)

The Shanghai E-Prix is an international motorsport event, held as part of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship at the Shanghai International Circuit in Jiading, Shanghai, China. First held as the eleventh and twelfth rounds of the 2023/24 season, the inaugural Shanghai E-Prix would mark the series' return to mainland China for the first time since the 2015 Beijing ePrix.

City History

Shanghai was first settled c.4,000 in the western part of the modern city, and would subsequently come under the control of several different kingdoms during the formative years of ancient China. The city was then expanded during the early Tang and Song dynasties of Imperial China, becoming a major port and gaining upgraded status to a market town towards the end of the Song period with ties to Japan and Silla. Under the Ming dynasty the city was ringed by a wall to prevent raids from Japanese pirates, with the City God Temple was constructed in 1602, an honour normally restricted to prefecture capitals rather than market towns, albeit a major one that Shanghai continued to be.

International Attention: 1800s - 1949

Shanghai continued to expand throughout the Ming Dynasty, and would subsequently be at the forefront of the European expansion of interest in the Far East in the ninetneenth century, ultimately ending up occupied by the British Empire during the First Opium War. The port was forceably opened by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 to European trade, further expanded by subsequent treaties, with European and American settlements forming around the old wall as a result, with the British and American settlements eventually combining to form the Shanghai International Settlement in 1863. A subsequent invasion by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War and the resulting Treaty of Shimonoseki saw Japan also gain a foothold near the city, leading to Shanghai gaining the moniker "The Great Athens of China" before the end of the nineteenth century.

The establishment of the Republic of China in 1912 saw the old city walls demolished to allow the city to expand, and the city would also serve as the founding city for the Chinese Communist Party in July 1921, and the starting point for the May Thirtieth Movement on 30 May 1925. In 1927 the city became a municipality and gained a complete rennovation of the old town that saw the city emerge as the financial hub for the Asia-Pacific region in the 1930s, becoming the world's fifth largest city with a huge number of foreign nationals living in the city. The golden age of the city would be shattered by repeated Japanese attacks on the city during the 1930s and the Second World War, and would be occupied by Japanese forces from 8 December 1941 until 3 September 1945 when Chinese forces finally liberated the city.

Restoration and Revolution: 1949 - Present

The People's Liberation Army would gain control of Shanghai in 1949, and the city subsequently became a major part of the People's Republic of China prompting most foreign firms and investors to leave for Hong Kong instead. Shanghai would become a centre for the radical left and would miraculously emerge from numerous revolts and revolutions with continous economic growth, although it was only in 1990 that the city was given any sort of international funding that allowed Shanghai to begin a steady expansion. By 2020, Shanghai was granted Alpha+ status by the Globalisation and World Cities Research Network, placing it in the top ten of the most important financial cities in the world.

Formula E History

Formula E began investigating a potential move to Shanghai and the Shanghai International Circuit after news emerged that Cape Town in South Africa would be unable to host its planned 2024 E-Prix due to financial issues. The decision to host a race in Shanghai was announced with an updated calendar for the 2023/24 in October 2023, with the inaugural Shanghai E-Prix scheduled for 25 May 2024, initially a TBA date on the provisional season 10 calendar. This round was subsequently expanded into a double-header after the Jakarta E-Prix for 2024 was also cancelled due to issues around the venue, and would mark FE's first races on mainland China since 2015.

Circuit History

The Shanghai International Circuit was quickly chosen to host the inaugural Shanghai E-Prix due to its relatively close location to the ever expanding city of Shanghai, as well as the fact that it had several easily adaptable layouts. Ultimately, FE would settle on using a circuit that would retain the whole of the first and the majority of the second sectors of the Grand Prix circuit, before utilising a shortcut around the back of the paddock to reduce the circuit length to 3.051 km.

Records

A full list of records for the Shanghai E-Prix are outlined below, including a list of race winners.

Winners

Below is a list of all of the winners of the Shanghai E-Prix:

Shanghai E-Prix Winners List
Season	Name	Circuit	Date	Winner	Report
2023/24	2024 ABB Formula E Shanghai E-Prix I	Shanghai International Circuit	25 May 2024	Mitch Evans	Report
2023/24	2024 ABB Formula E Shanghai E-Prix II	Shanghai International Circuit	26 May 2024	António Félix da Costa	Report
2024/25	2025 ABB Formula E Shanghai E-Prix I	Shanghai International Circuit	31 May 2025		Report
2024/25	2025 ABB Formula E Shanghai E-Prix II	Shanghai International Circuit	1 June 2025		Report

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