The 2021 Diriyah E-Prix In Numbers

Dive into ROKiT Venturi Racing’s data from Diriyah…

Formula E’s highly anticipated seventh season finally got underway in the deserts of Diriyah, and with wheel-to-wheel action throughout the field, it was a weekend worthy of a World Championship.

With two races taking place at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the 2021 Diriyah E-Prix marked the third time that a Formula E season has commenced with a double-header event, although it was the first time it has competed at night.

597 low-consumption LED floodlights ensured that every overtake went unmissed, although it was the first race – Formula E’s 70th of all-time – that was a particular highlight for us here at ROKiT Venturi Racing.

From P4 on the grid – and after a hair-raising double overtake on Mitch Evans and Pascal Wehrlein – Edoardo Mortara soared to a podium finish, taking P2 and 18 points when the chequered flag waved.

This result marked Edo’s fourth top-three finish in Formula E, and it was his first trip to the podium since the 2019 Hong Kong E-Prix – the site of his maiden victory.

It was also our first podium as a team since the Season 5 Monaco E-Prix, and by netting the second-placed spot, Edo ended a 658-day drought in silverware for Monaco’s only racing squad.

As the driver who has scored over half of our podiums in Formula E to date, Edo also completed his 2,500th lap behind the wheel of a ROKiT Venturi Racing car on an E-Prix weekend.

This means that Edo has now turned 25% of our total laps since Formula E’s inaugural race in 2014 – the equivalent of a staggering 5,988-kilometers, all using electric power.

In Diriyah, Edo turned 99 laps in total, but with the help of debuting team-mate Norman Nato, we completed 227 laps of the 2.495-kilometer-long Riyadh Street Circuit.

This means that we drove 566.365-kilometers around Formula E’s most unique temporary race track, and therefore, the equivalent of driving from our headquarters to Acronis’ Corporate HQ in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

With only 40 days remaining until the Rome E-Prix – the next race of Season 7 – we can’t wait to get back out on track as Formula E’s World Championship year continues.