With the updated calendar for next season delaying the start of the season, Season 13 will be the latest a #FormulaE season has started since Season 8 (which started on the 28th of January).
Today @ShwartzmanRob was announced as a @LolaFormulaE driver for Season 13. Shwartzman will become the second Indy 500 pole sitter to have raced in #FormulaE (after Marco Andretti).
Today @svandoorne was announced as a @JaguarRacing driver for Season 13. Vandoorne will be the second #FormulaE champion to have returned after a season away, along with @nyckdevries (both of whom won the championship with Mercedes).
Across Season 12, 14 of the 20 drivers on the grid claimed at least one fastest lap or pole position bonus points (the third highest number of drivers for any #FormulaE season).
In all four seasons in the Gen-1 era, every Teamβs Championship was won with an average of more than 20 points per race. Across the last eight seasons, only twice has the Teamβs Champion averaged above 20 points per race (Season 6 and Season 10).
The oldest pole sitter in #FormulaE history was almost double the age of the youngest pole sitter.
Oldest: Jarno Trulli (40 years 314 days)
Youngest: Taylor Barnard (20 years 259 days)
In Season 12 @mitchevans_ became the first #FormulaE driver to have claimed over 600 points on a single continent (having now scored 621 points in Europe).
With @ZakOSullivan and @nyckdevries sharing the same birthday, in Season 13 they will become the fifth pairing to have shared the same birthday and raced on the #FormulaE grid at the same time:
Servia and Trulli
Massa and Vergne
Askew and Giovinazzi
Sette Camara and Drugovich
Today in 2015 was the Season 2 Beijing E-Prix, where @Sebastien_buemi became the first #FormulaE driver to have claimed the win, pole position and fastest lap in the same race.