Formula E is in talks with Zandvoort over a potential future race at the current home of F1’s Dutch Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zandvoort’s contract to host F1 concludes in 2026, with Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds having confirmed to RacingNews365 that talks are taking place over an event for Gen4.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The all-electric series has already confirmed a record-breaking calendar for next season, which gets underway in S\u00e3o Paulo in December this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It will mark FE’s 12th campaign and the last before the introduction of Gen4, a car which has already reached 210 mph in private testing. As a result of FE introducing an 800 bhp beast for Season 13, some calendar changes are expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whether Zandvoort could be introduced for 2027 remains to be seen, but Dodds is very interested for an E-Prix at the historic beachside circuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zandvoort’s owners were spotted a fortnight ago in the FE paddock, at the Berlin E-Prix. FE has never held a race in the Netherlands, although Eindhoven had a failed bid in 2021.<\/p>\n
Speaking to RacingNews365 on the chances of a future race in the Netherlands, Dodds said: “Yeah, if you look at our target list of potential locations, I’m not so close to it but I think next year is the last F1 race in Zandvoort.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“If you look at that circuit layout, obviously it’s a beach circuit, but it’s a big circuit. If I look at it, with a few modifications, I think that could be a really interesting circuit for Formula E.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And they have a very loyal following of motorsport over there, obviously a lot of Max [Verstappen] fans, but, you know, Nyck de Vries, they’re loyalists for motorsport, they love motorsport over there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think Amsterdam, and that part of the Netherlands, obviously, I lived and worked there for a while. I think it could be really interesting. So no surprises, that’s one of the locations that we chat to.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“In fact, the people who run and own that circuit, they were in Berlin, talking to us about how it works and what the potential looks like.”<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tDe Vries backs Zandvoort race<\/p>\n
A driver hugely in favour of a future race at Zandvoort is de Vries, who has spent most of his racing career away from his homeland.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Dutchman would love to see the venue join the calendar and allow him to finally race at home.<\/p>\n
“I would be sleeping still in a hotel, whereas in another place I could sleep actually at home,” joked de Vries to RacingNews365 on a potential race at Zandvoort.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But of course, I would welcome a Dutch race on the calendar very much. I think it would be great to, yeah, actually race in the Netherlands.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I haven’t raced much in the Netherlands at all in my career, so unlike the Brits that get a lot of opportunity to race in the UK,” he laughed. “But yeah, I’d love to see Zandvoort on the calendar.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula E is in talks with Zandvoort over a potential future race at the current home of F1’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-22930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}