Formula E Race at Home Challenge

The Formula E Race at Home Challenge (formally the ABB Formula E Race at Home Challenge in support of UNICEF) was a series of esports events held as a temporary replacement of the suspended 2019–20 Formula E season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The series was run on the platform of rFactor 2.^[1] The virtual tournament was broadcast on various Formula E social channels along with selected television partners.^[5]

ABB Formula E Race at Home Challenge

2020
Tournament information
Sport	Formula E
Dates	18 April 2020–7 June 2020
Administrator	Formula E
Tournament format(s)	Classes: Driver Grid Challenge Grid Pre-qualifying:[1] Challenge Grid only[2] Monday–Thursday before the event 18 drivers can pre-qualify for the event Guest drivers complete the grid The top 24 players in the standings will be invited to the Grand Final[3] Qualifying:[1] One-shot qualifying in groups Race:[1] Damage level set at 80% Elimination "Race Royale" The final twelve then sprints to the finish[4][N 1]
Host(s)	rFactor 2
Final positions
Champions	Driver Grid: Stoffel Vandoorne Challenge Grid: Kevin Siggy

British racing driver Charlie Martin was announced as the first guest participant in the Race at Home Challenge, and will occupy a permanent guest role for the entirety of the series. As such, she became the first transgender driver to be affiliated with FIA Formula E and joined a host of other female drivers who had either competed in the series or who had participated in test events.

Daniel Abt had all his points taken away after the Berlin race as he was found to have used professional gamer, Lorenz Hörzing in his place. Abt additionally paid £8,900 (10,000 Euros) to charity.^[6] Hörzing was banned from the Challenge grid outright.^[7] Abt was later suspended and released by Audi.^[8]

Teams and drivers

Team No. Driver Grid Challenge Grid[N 2] Drivers Rounds Drivers Rounds Envision Virgin Racing 2 Nick Cassidy 0–1 Jimmy Broadbent 0 Lorenz Hörzing 1 Sam Bird 2–8 Joel Schmitt 2 Matteo Topa 3 Lorenz Hörzing 4–5 Özgür Benzes 6–7 4 Robin Frijns 0–7 Graham Carroll 0 Ben Hitz 1–7 Alice Powell 8 8 NIO 333 FE Team 3 Oliver Turvey All Liu Zexuan 0, 4 Petar Brljak 1–3 Charlie Martin 5–7 Jim Parisis 8 33 Ma Qinghua All Petar Brljak 0 Jim Parisis 1–2, 4–5 Ye Yifei 3, 6–7 Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team 5 Stoffel Vandoorne All Archie Hamilton 0–1 Mike Channell 2 Sophia Flörsch 3–4, 7 Axel LaFlamme 5–6 17 Nyck de Vries All Daniel Juncadella 0 Noah Reuvers 1–8 GEOX Dragon 6 Brendon Hartley All Joel Eriksson 0–1, 4 Alex Cooper 2 Kevin Morville 3 Chris Shepherd 5 Armando Iannaccone 6 Axel LaFlamme 7 7 Nico Müller 0–7 Brandon Williams 0 Peyo Peev 1–7 Joel Eriksson 8 8 Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler 11 Lucas di Grassi All Steve Alvarez Brown 0 Jiří Toman 1 Kelvin van der Linde 2 Eric Stranne 3 Scott Søvik 4 Lionel O'Connor 5 Verena Mei 6 Moritz Löhner 7 Arjan Veltens 8 31 Kelvin van der Linde 7–8 Alisdair Irvine 7–8 66 Daniel Abt 0–5 Zbigniew Siara 1 Axel LaFlamme 2–4[N 3] Alisdair Irvine 4–6 DS Techeetah 13 António Félix da Costa All Charlie Martin 0, 4 James Rossiter 1 Chris Shepherd 2 Scott Søvik 3 Kush Maini 5–8 25 Jean-Éric Vergne All James Rossiter 0 Nuno Pinto 1–7 TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team 18 Neel Jani All Moritz Löhner 0 Mike Channell 1 Nikodem Wisniewski 2 Alisdair Irvine 3 Marius Golombeck 4–5 Joshua Rogers 6–8 36 André Lotterer All Mike Channell 0 Joshua Rogers 1, 4 Simona de Silvestro 2–3 Arjan Veltens 5–6 Marius Golombeck 7–8 ROKiT Venturi Racing 19 Felipe Massa All Erhan Jajovski 0, 2 Axel LaFlamme 1 Jacob Reid 3–8 48 Edoardo Mortara All Erhan Jajovski 1 Jacob Reid 2 Gareth Paterson 3–4[N 4] Scott Søvik 5–7 Panasonic Jaguar Racing 20 Mitch Evans All Jack Ashton 0 Kuba Brzezinski 1–2 Remco Majoor 3 Petar Brljak 4 Archie Hamilton 5 Mike Channell 6 Sérgio Jimenez 7 51 James Calado All Kai Bachini 0 Jacob Reid 1 Alex Lynn 2–3 Remco Majoor 4 Petar Brljak 5–8 Nissan e.dams 22 Oliver Rowland All Ricardo Sanchez 0 Marc Gassner 1 Niek Jacobs 2–8 23 Jann Mardenborough 0 Marc Gassner 0 Sébastien Buemi 1–8 Jan von der Heyde 1–6, 8 Arjan Veltens 7 BMW i Andretti Motorsport 27 Alexander Sims All Jarl Teien 0 Charlie Martin 1–3 —[N 4] 4 Cem Bölükbaşı 5–7 Cem Bölükbaşı 8 28 Maximilian Günther All Kevin Siggy All Mahindra Racing 64 Jérôme d'Ambrosio 0–7 Olli Pahkala 0–1 Markus Keller 2–7 Sam Dejonghe 8 8 94 Sam Dejonghe 0 Hany Alsabti 0 Pascal Wehrlein 1–8 Lucas Müller 1–8 Source:[9][10][11]

Guest drivers are marked in green.[N 5]

Replacements

Round Driver Pre-qualifying method Replaced by Reason 2 Joshua Rogers Finished 1st in previous race Noah Reuvers Finished 9th in pre-qualifying Olli Pahkala Finished 4th in previous race Alex Cooper Finished 10th in pre-qualifying Marco Santoni Finished 7th in pre-qualifying Markus Keller Finished 12th in pre-qualifying 3 Stavros Mouzaidis Finished 6th in pre-qualifying Matteo Topa Finished 11th in pre-qualifying 4 Graham Carroll Finished 2nd in pre-qualifying Alisdair Irvine Finished 9th in pre-qualifying Chris Shepherd Finished 8th in pre-qualifying Scott Søvik Finished 10th in pre-qualifying 5 N/A reserved spot for guest driver Alisdair Irvine Finished 9th in pre-qualifying Jack Harrison Finished 7th in pre-qualifying Scott Søvik Finished 10th in pre-qualifying 6 N/A extra pre-qualifying spot[N 6] Armando Iannaccone Finished 9th in pre-qualifying Graham Carroll Finished 1st in pre-qualifying Özgür Benzes Finished 10th in pre-qualifying 7 Jan von der Heyde Finished 2nd in previous race Özgür Benzes Finished 9th in pre-qualifying Calendar Round Circuit Date 0 Circuit de Monaco April 18 1 Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit April 25 2 Lester Special – Electric Docks[12][13][14] May 2 3 Circuit de Monaco May 9 4 Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit May 16 5 Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit May 23 6 Brooklyn Street Circuit May 30 7 Brooklyn Street Circuit June 6 8 Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit June 7 Source:[1][3] Fictional tracks are marked in light cyan. Results and standings Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Class 0 Circuit de Monaco Maximilian Günther Stoffel Vandoorne Maximilian Günther BMW i Andretti Motorsport Driver Grid Graham Carroll Olli Pahkala Graham Carroll Envision Virgin Racing Challenge Grid 1 Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit Stoffel Vandoorne Nick Cassidy Maximilian Günther BMW i Andretti Motorsport Driver Grid Petar Brljak Kevin Siggy Joshua Rogers TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team Challenge Grid 2 Lester Special – Electric Docks Stoffel Vandoorne Pascal Wehrlein Maximilian Günther BMW i Andretti Motorsport Driver Grid Peyo Peev Peyo Peev Peyo Peev GEOX Dragon Challenge Grid 3 Circuit de Monaco Pascal Wehrlein Pascal Wehrlein Pascal Wehrlein Mahindra Racing Driver Grid Kevin Siggy Kevin Siggy Kevin Siggy BMW i Andretti Motorsport Challenge Grid 4 Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit Edoardo Mortara Pascal Wehrlein Pascal Wehrlein Mahindra Racing Driver Grid Joshua Rogers Joshua Rogers Lucas Müller Mahindra Racing Challenge Grid 5 Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit Stoffel Vandoorne Stoffel Vandoorne Oliver Rowland Nissan e.dams Driver Grid Kevin Siggy Petar Brljak Kevin Siggy BMW i Andretti Motorsport Challenge Grid 6 Brooklyn Street Circuit Stoffel Vandoorne Stoffel Vandoorne Stoffel Vandoorne Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team Driver Grid Kevin Siggy Kevin Siggy Kevin Siggy BMW i Andretti Motorsport Challenge Grid 7 Brooklyn Street Circuit Pascal Wehrlein Stoffel Vandoorne Pascal Wehrlein Mahindra Racing Driver Grid Lucas Müller Kevin Siggy Lucas Müller Mahindra Racing Challenge Grid 8 Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit Oliver Rowland Stoffel Vandoorne Oliver Rowland Nissan e.dams Driver Grid Kevin Siggy Kevin Siggy Kevin Siggy BMW i Andretti Motorsport Challenge Grid Points structure Round  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   Pole   FL  0 No points awarded 1–7 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 1 1 8 50 36 30 24 20 16 12 8 4 2 2 2 Source:[1] Driver Grid standings Pos. Driver MCO HKG LES MCO HKG BER NYC NYC BER Pts 1 Maximilian Günther 1 1 1 3 65 2 Pascal Wehrlein 3 10 1 1 1 44 3 Robin Frijns 14E 4 2 5 40 4 Stoffel Vandoorne 2 5 5 2 1 40 5 Neel Jani 15E 12 4 4 24 6 Nick Cassidy 4 2 19 7 Nico Müller 5 13E 3 8 19 8 Oliver Rowland 6 6 15E 6 1 1 16 9 Oliver Turvey 10 7 6 18E 14 10 Nyck de Vries 22E 23E 7 22E 6 11 André Lotterer 3 20E 17E 7 6 12 Felipe Massa 19E 8 20E 15E 4 13 James Calado 12E 21E 8 11 4 14 Jérôme d'Ambrosio DNS 9 12 14E 2 15 Ma Qinghua 13E 11 22E 9 2 16 Alexander Sims 21E 10 14E 12 1 17 Edoardo Mortara WD 14E 16E 10 1 18 Jean-Éric Vergne 8 22E 9[N 7] 21E 0 19 Sébastien Buemi 18E 11 16E 0 20 Lucas di Grassi 17E DNS 13E 17E 0 21 Brendon Hartley 16E 16E WD 13E 0 22 Daniel Abt 11E 15E 23E 19E DSQ 0 23 Mitch Evans 7 17E 18E 24E 0 24 António Félix da Costa 20E 19E 21E 23E 0 25 Sam Bird 19E 20E 0 Kelvin van der Linde – Jann Mardenborough 9 – Sam Dejonghe 18E Pos. Driver MCO HKG LES MCO HKG BER NYC TBA TBA Pts Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest lap E – Eliminated Challenge Grid standings Pos. Driver MCO HKG LES MCO HKG BER NYC TBA TBA Pts 1 Kevin Siggy 2 3 2 1 61 2 Peyo Peev 23E 1 3 42 3 Petar Brljak 4 2 5 4 41 4 Lucas Müller 13E 3 2 33 5 Joshua Rogers 1 DNP 25 6 Jan von der Heyde 76 4 11E 20 7 Jacob Reid 17E 7 5 16 8 Ben Hitz 98 6 9 14 9 Olli Pahkala 5 4 DNP 12 10 Erhan Jajovski 18E 5 21E 10 11 Nuno Pinto 1110 16E 6 9 12 Remco Majoor 7 6 13 Kuba Brzezinski 87 22E 6 14 Niek Jacobs 9 8 6 15 Markus Keller 8 13E 4 16 Jim Parisis 109 14E 2 17 Noah Reuvers 14E 1110 10 2 18 Marc Gassner 3 12 0 19 Eric Stranne 12 DNPQ 0 20 Lorenz Hörzing 16E DNPQ DNPQ 0 21 Alisdair Irvine 16E 0 22 Nikodem Wisniewski 17E 0 23 Chris Shepherd 18E DNPQ DNP 0 24 Matteo Topa 18E DNPQ 0 25 Joel Schmitt 19E 0 26 Jiří Toman 21E 0 27 Kevin Morville 21E DNPQ 0 28 Zbigniew Siara 22E DNPQ DNPQ 0 29 Scott Søvik 23E 0 30 Alex Cooper DNS DNPQ 0 – Graham Carroll 1 DNP – Jarl Teien 6 DNPQ – Brandon Williams 8 DNPQ – Jack Ashton 10 DNPQ – Hany Alsabti 11E – Moritz Löhner 12E – Jimmy Broadbent 14E – Steve Alvarez Brown 15E – Liu Zexuan 17E – Ricardo Sanchez 19E – Kai Bachini 22E – Marco Santoni DNP – Stavros Mouzaidis DNP Guest drivers ineligible for points – James Rossiter 9 6 – Daniel Juncadella 7 – Alex Lynn 10 14E – Simona de Silvestro 12 17E – Joel Eriksson 13E 15E – Kelvin van der Linde 13E – Charlie Martin 20E 18E 15E 24E – Axel LaFlamme 19E 20E 15E – Archie Hamilton 16E 20E – Sophia Flörsch 20E – Mike Channell 21E 24E 23E – Gareth Paterson 22E Pos. Driver MCO HKG LES MCO HKG BER NYC TBA TBA Pts Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest lap Superscript – Point-scoring position E – Eliminated

Footnotes

1. Originally it was the final ten.^[1]
2. Drivers who failed to pre-qualify for any given round are not listed here. Those who already made it into the championship, but failed to pre-qualify for any given round, are only listed in the Challenge Grid standings as "did not pre-qualify" (DNPQ). This only includes those drivers who actually entered the pre-qualifying stage of that round. Drivers who did pre-qualify for any given round, but did not enter it, are only listed in the Challenge Grid standings as "did not participate" (DNP) and also in the Replacements subsection.
3. For Round 4, LaFlamme was registered to drive for the Venturi Racing car no. 48, but instead drove the Audi car no. 66, which was officially assigned to Alisdair Irvine, meaning that Audi had three drivers that day.
4. For Round 4, Paterson was registered to drive for the BMW i Andretti car no. 27, but instead drove the Venturi car no. 48, which was officially assigned to Alex LaFlamme, who instead ran in an Audi car no. 66.
5. Guest drivers had been invited to the championship without the need to pre-qualify for the rounds they entered.
6. The top 10 from previous race included a guest driver (Cem Bölükbaşı), who was not eligible to pre-qualify this way as guest drivers are invited separately, meaning that only nine drivers pre-qualified via the previous race result. In previous cases, both James Rossiter and Alex Lynn did not free up an extra spot despite finishing in the top 10 in their respective races, suggesting a possible rule change has been made since.
7. Vergne was penalised after the race and did not receive any points.

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