Formula E: Accelerate

2021
Tournament information
Sport	Formula E
Dates	28 January–25 March 2021
Administrator	rFactor 2 Formula E
Tournament formats	Open Qualifiers: Online Entry Period: 7–13 January 2021[1] Top 3 fastest drivers will receive an invite to participate in Formula E Accelerate.[2] Race: Six race competition with each race lasts for 25 minutes[2]
Venue	Online
Final positions
Champions	Frederik Rasmussen
1st runners-up	Erhan Jajovski
2nd runners-up	Kevin Siggy
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Formula E: Accelerate is a professionalesports competition created byFormula E in 2021, following the success of 2020's event, theABB Formula E Race at Home Challenge in support of UNICEF.^[1][3]

The competition is run on the platformrFactor 2 platform,^[4] with seat time at home for competitors, with additional venue events for some rounds. The championship grid is made up of esports teams associated with the manufacturers from the real-worldABB FIA Formula E World Championship, with drivers who are selected through early qualification rounds to represent those teams.

The competition is broadcast on variousFormula E social and streaming platforms, such asTwitch,Facebook, andYouTube.

The championship offers a €100,000 prize-pool and some real-world seat-time with laps in a Gen2 Formula E car.^[5][6]

In the inaugural 2021 season, over 600 professional sim drivers in addition to plenty of talented gamers entered the qualifiers in January 2021, competing for seats in 12 official teams.

Danish sim racer Frederik Rasmussen was crowned as the 2021 Formula E: Accelerate Champion ahead of Erhan Jajovski, taking the €20,000 top prize and a drive in a real Gen2 Formula E car.^[7][8]ROKiT Venturi Racing secured the Teams' Championship Title, finishing 36 points clear of the field.^[9]

The 2022 season added VIP tickets to the Seoul e-Prix to the prize, this time with six rounds of the qualifying competitions, known as "the Road to the London Final," to reduce the field down to a conventional grid size matching the real-world series. This grid then raced at a final round held at the London e-Prix.^[10] The six qualifying rounds were held at the virtual versions of Rome, Monaco, Berlin, Jakarta, Vancouver, and New York.^[10]Frederik Rasmussen won driving for Dragon/Penske with Jarno Opmeer second for Mercedes-EQ.

For 2023 the prize pool was reduced to €40,000, with two open qualifying rounds taking place remotely at the virtual versions of Berlin and Rome, but on the same weeks as the real-world rounds. The top 88 drivers from open qualification will go forward into Qualifying races at the same circuits. The top 11 from each event will then make up the 22-car grid for the final to be held at the London e-Prix.^[11] The championship will use Gen 3 cars.^[12]

Team	Race drivers
	No.	Driver name	Rounds
Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler	33 11 11	Manuel Biancolilla Kelvin van der Linde Michi Hoyer[13][14]	All 1–2, 5–6 3–4
BMW i Andretti Motorsport	28 27	Kevin Siggy Petar Brljak	All All
DS Techeetah	25 13	Nikodem Wisniewski Arthur Lehouck	All All
Dragon / Penske Autosport	7 6	Frederik Rasmussen Peyo Peev	All All
Envision Virgin Racing	37 4	Graham Carroll Tímea Bencsik	All All
Jaguar Racing	10 20	Martin Stefanko Jakub Brzeziński	All All
Mahindra Racing	29 94	Olli Pahkala Lucas Mueller	All All
Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team	17 5	Jarno Opmeer Bono Huis	All All
NIO 333 FE Team	88 8	Risto Kappet Jiayu Zhang	All All
Nissan e.dams	23 22	Marc Gassner Jan von der Heyde	All All
ROKiT Venturi Racing	71 48	Erhan Jajovski Lorenz Hörzing[15]	All 1, 3–6
TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	36 99	Marius Golombeck Jaroslav Honzík	All All
Sources:[16]

2021 [edit] Round ePrix Circuit Duration Date Broadcast 1 New York City ePrix Brooklyn Street Circuit,Red Hook, Brooklyn,New York 25 Minutes 28 January Formula E: Accelerate Round 1 Full Race on YouTube 2 Hong Kong ePrix Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit,Hong Kong 4 February Formula E: Accelerate Round 2 Full Race on YouTube 3 Berlin ePrix Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit,Berlin 11 February Formula E: Accelerate Round 3 Full Race on YouTube 4 Diriyah ePrix Riyadh Street Circuit,Diriyah 11 March Formula E: Accelerate Round 4 Full Race on YouTube 5 Electric Docks[17] Lester Special – Electric Docks[18][19] 18 March Formula E: Accelerate Round 5 Full Race on YouTube 6 Rome ePrix Circuito Cittadino dell'EUR,Rome 28 March Formula E: Accelerate Grand Final Full Race on YouTube Sources:[20]

Note: Fictional tracks are marked in cyan.

Round ePrix Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team 1 New York City ePrix Erhan Jajovski Kevin Siggy Erhan Jajovski ROKiT Venturi Racing 2 Hong Kong ePrix Erhan Jajovski Frederik Rasmussen Erhan Jajovski ROKiT Venturi Racing 3 Berlin ePrix Kevin Siggy Olli Pahkala Kevin Siggy BMW i Andretti Motorsport 4 Diriyah ePrix Frederik Rasmussen Marius Golombeck Frederik Rasmussen Dragon / Penske Autosport 5 Electric Docks Frederik Rasmussen Jakub Brzeziński Erhan Jajovski ROKiT Venturi Racing 6 Rome ePrix Frederik Rasmussen Frederik Rasmussen Frederik Rasmussen Dragon / Penske Autosport

Note: Fictional tracks are marked in cyan.

Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in the race, three points for pole sitter and one point was given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten.

In the event of a tie at the conclusion of the championship, a count-back system is used as a tie-breaker, with a drivers'/teams' best result used to decide the standings.

Pos. Driver NYC HKG BER DIR LES RME‡ Points 1 Frederik Rasmussen 9 2F 2 1P 3P 1PF 143 2 Erhan Jajovski 1P 1P 4 2 1 4 135 3 Kevin Siggy 3F 3 1P 3 10 13 75 4 Graham Carroll 13 4 20 5 12 2 58 5 Jarno Opmeer 6 14 14 10 5 3 49 6 Nikodem Wisniewski 14 10 8 18 2 6 39 7 Marius Golombeck 5 5 18 6F 15 8 37 8 Martin Stefanko 20 8 5 7 6 9 32 9 Manuel Biancolilla 2 DSQ 7 14 8 11 28 10 Lorenz Hörzing 16 DNS 12 8 4 7 28 11 Jakub Brzeziński 15 11 9 11 9F 5 25 12 Bono Huis 4 15 16 4 DSQ 16 24 13 Petar Brljak 18 7 3 9 13 14 23 14 Risto Kappet 8 6 6 13 22 17 20 15 Marc Gassner 7 16 13 16 11 10 8 16 Jan von der Heyde 10 12 23 22 7 15 7 17 Olli Pahkala 11 9 10F 12 19 12 4 18 Lucas Mueller 12 18 11 19 DSQ 24 0 19 Arthur Lehouck 24 13 Ret 15 21 18 0 20 Peyo Peev 17 19 21 17 14 19 0 21 Tímea Bencsik 23 21 15 23 16 21 0 21 Jaroslav Honzík 21 17 22 24 18 22 0 23 Kelvin van der Linde 19 22 17 20 0 24 Michi Hoyer 17 21 0 25 Jiayu Zhang 22 20 19 20 20 23 0 Pos. Driver NYC HKG BER DIR LES RME‡ Points Sources:[21]

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not enter Annotation Meaning P Pole position F Fastest lap

Note:

• ‡ – Double points were awarded in the last race at theRome ePrix,Rome.^[22]

Pos. Team NYC HKG BER DIR LES RME‡ Points 1 ROKiT Venturi Racing 1P 1P 4 2 1 4 203 16 DNS 12 8 4 7 2 Dragon / Penske Autosport 9 2F 2 1P 3P 1PF 167 17 19 21 17 14 19 3 BMW i Andretti Motorsport 3F 3 1P 3 10 13 134 18 7 3 9 13 14 4 Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team 4 14 14 4 5 3 97 6 15 16 10 DSQ 16 5 Envision Virgin Racing 13 4 15 5 12 2 79 23 21 20 23 16 21 6 Jaguar Racing 15 8 5 7 6 5 59 20 11 9 11 9F 9 7 TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team 5 5 18 6F 15 8 58 21 17 22 24 18 22 8 DS Techeetah 14 10 8 15 2 6 49 24 13 Ret 18 21 18 9 Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler 2 22 7 14 8 11 34 19 DSQ 17 21 17 20 10 Nissan e.dams 7 12 13 16 7 10 25 10 16 23 22 11 15 11 NIO 333 FE Team 8 6 6 13 20 17 24 22 20 19 20 22 23 12 Mahindra Racing 11 9 10F 12 19 12 13 12 18 11 19 DSQ 24 Pos. Team NYC HKG BER DIR LES RME‡ Points Sources:[21]

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not enter Annotation Meaning P Pole position F Fastest lap

Note:

• ‡ – Double points were awarded in the last race at theRome ePrix,Rome.^[22]
• The standings are sorted by best result, rows are not related to the drivers. In case of tie on points, the best positions achieved determined the outcome.

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